RECENT BANGLADESH

Still the Problem is not Over

This year about 83 thousand students have got GPA 5. It is better than the previous few years. It means the number of brilliant students in Bangladesh is increasing gradually. People are happy with this large number of talented students. But is this the solution of our education problem? Is this the completion? It may be because nobody thinks about the destination of these students. Even the Prime Minister and the Education Minister do not have the pressure. They are just happy with this increasing of Bangladesh. But most of the students cannot get themselves admitted in a good college. No one is serious about that. Only the students and their parents are worried about that. In our country the number of government colleges is very negligible. So the students who have got Golden A+ cannot admit themselves all in those colleges. Then what will be with the students who have got GPA 5? So we all beg the help of the authority. Few more government colleges should be established according to the number of the brilliant students.

Professor Muzaffer Ahmad is no more

Famous economist Professor Muzaffer Ahmad is no more with us. Lust Tuesday at night he died in LAB AID HOSPITAL in Dhaka. It has been known that at half past 10 of that night he felt pain in his chest and quickly he was taken to the hospital. At 22 past 11 doctor in charge proclaimed him dead. Doctor said heart disease is the reason of his death. He was 76 years old.

New Glory of Bangladesh

"I was close to losing my life several times. One time I was swept around 30 metres away from my tracks and almost into a crevasse.”

Nishat Majumder--the first Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest--described her brush with death during her fantastic adventure when she spoke to The Daily Star over the telephone yesterday after returning safely to the base camp with her fellow mountaineer MA Muhit.

“It was a treacherous trek with the possibility of losing one's life at any moment. It was more dangerous than what I had imagined it would be,” she said.

Nishat and Muhit reached the south base camp, 5,350 metres above sea level, at noon Bangladesh time yesterday. At the same time, a second Bangladeshi woman Wasfia Nazreen was already climbing towards the summit having left from the base camp in the early hours of Monday.

Wasfia expects to reach the summit sometime Friday morning, according to her last facebook update on Sunday.

Nishat and Muhit both expect to be back in Dhaka by June 1 or 2.

While talking to The Daily Star, Muhit--the first Bangladeshi to scale Mount Everest twice--said, "I have climbed several mountains before but this one was by far the most dangerous climb."

Both mountaineers described their ordeal as they narrowly escaped death several times during the journey.

"Despite all the hardship, I was never tempted to return without reaching the top. I was afraid but I was determined to reach the peak," Nishat said.

She described one of her worst moments being on April 27 when they were on their way from camp 1 to camp 2. She was swept nearly 30 metres away from her track by a snowstorm.

"I had just crossed a crevasse using a ladder. A strong snowstorm hit us without warning, giving us no chance to take safety measures. I just rolled away from my track," she said.

"I protected myself by holding on to the ice sheets with all my might. If the storm had pushed me by just two or three metres more, I might have fallen into the crevasse.”

Nishat also mentioned that she saw blood during her way up, which likely were of other climbers or Sherpas on a similar expedition.

Nishat said they stayed on the summit for nearly one hour.

“The surroundings looked foggy with all the snow around. We took some pictures and then started our descent."

When asked how she was doing physically, Nishat said she was well but feeling weak. “I need rest," she said.

She expressed her gratitude to her parents, well-wishers and the people of the country who prayed for her.

"We begin our final descent on Tuesday or Friday next and hope to reach Kathmandu the Sunday or Monday after that. We will receive our certification of having climbed the peak from Nepal's Ministry of Tourism there," Nishat said.

“After completing those formalities, we will start for Dhaka."

Meanwhile, Nishat's mother Ashura Majumder, while talking to The Daily Star yesterday evening, urged everyone to pray that her daughter returns home safe and sound.

Enam Ul Haque, president of Bangla Mountaineering and Trekking Club (BMTC) said Nishat and Muhit's feat has earned accolades for the nation.

BMTC organised the expedition with co-sponsorship from Plan Bangladesh, a non-government organisation (NGO), under their campaign “Because I Am a Girl”.

Dhaka Wasa, Nishat's employer, meanwhile is all set to accord a reception to its favourite girl.

"We will hold a reception for her when she returns though we have not finalised any date yet," Dhaka Wasa Managing Director Taqsem A Khan said last night.

Thirty-one-year-old Nishat from Laxmipur scaled Mount Everest on May 19, the first Bangladeshi woman to do so.

Musa Ibrahim was the first Bangladeshi to conquer Everest on May 23, 2010. Muhit scaled the same in May the following year.

Reference : The Daily Star

SSC and Equivalent Results on May 7

SSC and equivalent examination results will be published on 7 May. The education minister Nurul Islam Nahid has said this on a conference  in the ministry today. Its being published within sixty days after completing the examination.The examination started on 1st  February and ended on 8th March.







 Load Shedding occurs frequently

Load-shedding is not anything new in the localities of Bangladesh. But at recent time this problem has become so great that it is almost unbearable. In the cities load-shedding occurs for about 6/7 hours out of 24 hours of a day. Though people get the sunlight at day, the whole city sinks in the darkness of load-shedding at night. This problem is terrible more in the village areas. Where "Polly Biduit" is served, people have to spend time without electricity for about 12/13 hours a day. Moreover, it is the time of Higher Secondary Certificate examination, one  of the biggest public examinations. Most of the examinees choose the time from evening to mid-night to prepare themselves properly for the examination. But load-shedding occurs for 3/4 hours and does not let them study as they need and wish because it is not so easy to study with candle light in this hot days of summer. The demand of electricity in summer season is more than in any. But we can not ignore this demand anyhow. Where people in many countries do not know what load-shedding is, a large amount of babies have to see the darkness at the first glance of its life just after it is born here in Bangladesh. As the citizen of a developing democratic country the people of Bangladesh can expect electricity for a few hours more. Otherwise, the development of the country will be hampered and the dreams of innumerable parents towards the young generation will be destroyed.