Ali Khan

A recent notification from the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE), following a decision made on 15 July 2025, has sent a shockwave through the country’s educational landscape. The directive states that only students from government primary schools will be eligible to participate in this year’s Primary Scholarship Examination, with a cap allowing a maximum of 40% of students from each eligible institution, considering their meritocracy based on the first-term exam performance, to sit for the exam. While seemingly a procedural adjustment, this decision is, in reality, a regressive step that erects an unjust barrier, systematically excluding over a million children and undermining the very principle of equal opportunity that our nation strives for.

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A cruel silence has descended upon fourteen families in Bangladesh. For five long months, they have been suspended in a state of agonising uncertainty, caught between the thinnest sliver of hope and the deepest chasm of despair. Their sons, vibrant young men brimming with dreams, embarked on a journey to Italy via Dubai last February. Today, they are ghosts—their phones silent, their whereabouts unknown, their very existence a question mark that haunts their loved ones’ every waking moment!

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The May 14 hearing at City Hall was, by any honest measure, a hard night for our community. Hundreds packed the room. People were scared. People were skeptical. People remembered