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Veteran politician Pankaj Bhattacharya passes away   DHAKA, April 24, 2023 (BSS) - Veteran left-leaning politician and 1971 freedom fighter Pankaj Bhattacharya

A 15-year-old boy is struggling to balance his classes with his work as a caretaker of an apartment building. A 14-year-old boy, talking incoherently in the class, revealed that he could not bear to see his parents fight every day. Advertisement The teenagers are pupils at a community learning centre for children of unorganised workers, mostly first-generation learners. The teachers of the centre — Rokeya Siksha Kendra — have been participating in a workshop focused on mental health of such...

A coaching centre that started a month ago from the ground floor of a Patuli apartment block has enrolled close to 50 children whose right to education has been robbed by the pandemic. The students of Rokeya Siksha Kendra live mostly in slums in and around Patuli, off EM Bypass. Their religions are different but lives similar. Their parents are masons, drivers, domestic help or from some other unorganised sector. On paper, all of them are students of government schools. But virtual education is...