Jailing of journalists by Myanmar protested
Agency :Journalists in Rangoon wearing t-shirts to protest the jailing of four reporters and the CEO of the Unity journal were refused entry to an...
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Iraq forces ‘killed 255 Sunni prisoners’ : HRW
BBC Online :Iraqi security forces and government-affiliated militias appear to have executed at least 255 prisoners since 9 June, a human rights group says.The killings...
Kerry pushes for a deal on Afghan vote crisis
Reuters, Kabul :US Secretary of State John Kerry scrambled to produce a deal by the end of Saturday to end Afghanistan’s election crisis, meeting for...
Thousands protest Gaza strikes in London, Paris
AP, London :Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators turned out on the streets of London and Paris on Friday to call for an end to Israeli military...
No place for a ‘new cold war’ with US: China
Reuters, Shanghai :China and the United States must avoid a “new cold war” in their international relations, China’s top newspaper said on Saturday, in the...
On the teaching of slow students
Bruce D Price :First of all, let us acknowledge that every human will find some subjects difficult to learn. Therefore, in some situations, we are...
Do we really value education?
Galib Hoq :It is often claimed that education is the backbone of a nation, but do the people of Bangladesh really value education or do...
Standardise or individualise?
Michele Ramstetter :America’s public schools have become a bouncing board of trial and error. With every social and political change comes a newfangled reform designed...
Two drug peddlers held with yaba
Chittagong Bureau :Two listed drug peddlers rounded up from city area on Wednesday by police from separate places. The detained drug peddlers are Abdul Kader(40)...