Bangladesh
GPA-5 has gone from 145,911 to 40,084 in two years — a 72% fall in the top grade
A 42% fall on last year, which was itself less than half of the year before. The top of the grade distribution has changed shape twice…
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Bangladesh
Two subjects account for 382,021 of this year’s HSC failures, and one of them is ICT
Against 594,113 total failures, the two subjects are the overwhelming share. ICT is a compulsory paper that almost no school is equipped to…
Bangladesh
How to check your HSC result — and why the SMS number is not the one you used last year
Three official channels, one of them changed this week. The ministry, the boards and newspaper offices hold no results at all.
Bangladesh
HSC 2026: the pass rate has fallen to 52.12%, the lowest in 22 years
Last year 58.83% passed. The only lower figure on record is 2004, when the examination was held under seven boards rather than eleven.
Bangladesh
Bitcoin, blockchain, hot wallet, stablecoin: the words in this week’s headlines, and what the law here says about them
A $6.3bn theft put a pile of jargon on every front page. Here is what each term actually means, and where Bangladeshi readers stand legally.
Bangladesh
“The system says no”: what to do when a machine decides you cannot have a loan
Automated creditworthiness scoring opens lending to people with no banking history. It also makes refusals hard to question, which is why…
Bangladesh
TikTok deleted 14.79 million videos uploaded from Bangladesh in three months — and put 205,001 of them back
About 0.9% of everything uploaded here, against a global rate of 0.5%. Automated systems caught 99.8% of it before a single user complained.
Technology
The Leonids peak on the night of 17 November, and this year the moon sets just as Leo rises
Saturn leaves the evening sky and the planets shift to the hour before dawn. The Leonids peak on 17-18 November with the moon setting just…
Bangladesh
Dhaka’s computer market held steady this week — after a month in which holding steady was not the pattern
No significant change is a result, not an absence of one. After September’s memory shortage pushed RAM up repeatedly, a flat week is worth…
Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s tech journalists met to discuss AI and agreed it is an opportunity — the four questions a newsroom actually has to settle went unasked
The speakers were right that the craft is changing. A policy, rather than an attitude, is what decides whether a newsroom survives being…
Bangladesh
A Bangla book and app for Ireland’s driving theory test — built by someone who sat it, for people translating the question before answering it
The theory test is a real barrier for Bangla speakers in Ireland, and the design choice here is the right one. The pricing deserves a…
Technology
Gigabyte has put a Tk 14 lakh AI workstation on sale in Dhaka — here is the arithmetic on whether buying beats renting
On-device AI does cut cloud dependence, as the distributor says. Whether it cuts cost depends entirely on how many hours a month the…