Freedom-fighter

Ninety-one years ago today, on August 19, 1935, a boy named Mohammad Zahirullah was born in the small village of Majupur, in the Sonagazi area of what was then Noakhali district in undivided Bengal. Nobody in that household could have guessed that this child would grow up to change the shape of Bengali storytelling twice over, first with his pen and then with his camera, before vanishing into the chaos of a newborn nation and never being found again. The world remembers him as Zahir Raihan: nove...

The government is considering scrapping all quota reservations for Class XI (higher secondary) admissions beginning this academic year, while retaining the existing GPA-based admission system. The proposal comes after authorities found that seats reserved for the children of freedom fighters have remained largely unfilled in recent years. The proposal also seeks to abolish the 2 percent quota reserved for the children of officials and employees of the Ministry of Education and its subordi...