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Bangladesh
Inside one education board, the pass rate runs from 66.20% to 29.85%
The board average hides a gap of more than 36 points between the city and the hill districts in the same examination.
Bangladesh
Girls passed by 8.56 points more than boys, and boys took GPA-5 by 642
The two statistics point opposite ways, and the gap between them is the interesting part rather than either number alone.
Bangladesh
293 colleges where nobody passed, and 139 where everybody did — both tails moved the wrong way
The average tells you less than the distribution does. One end quadrupled in two years; the other lost three-fifths of its members in one.
World
Webb has photographed stars being born inside N159, and the colours in the picture are a chemical readout
The orange is light from carbon-based molecules; the dark red filaments are cold hydrogen shielding the new stars. The picture is data, not…
World
Two blockchain analysis firms name North Korea’s Lazarus Group over the Binance theft — the same unit the FBI blamed for Bybit
Attribution in cyber-attacks is usually hedged. Two firms saying “high confidence” about the same unit, days after the event, is unusually…
World
The Earth has pulsed every 26 seconds for sixty years and nobody has explained why
It is not a mystery because it is hard to detect. It is a mystery because it causes no damage, so nobody has had a reason to fund solving…
World
Searches for weather spells are up 206% on Etsy, and the biggest sellers are not love spells
An online marketplace with a rule that spells must be marketed as entertainment is still a marketplace. What the demand says is more…
World
Binance has frozen about half the stolen $6.3bn, and the US Secret Service has joined the hunt for the rest
The exchange says a self-destruct mechanism destroyed the attackers’ traces as they went. The market took the news badly even though…
World
Reddit fell 29% after warning that Google’s AI search is cutting the referral traffic it depends on
The warning matters far beyond Reddit. Referral traffic from search is the business model of almost every site on the open web.
Technology
Intel lost 28% of its value in a day after telling investors the PC slowdown has another six months to run
The company is raising AI spending into falling demand for the processors that pay for it. For Dhaka’s computer market, the forecast is the…
World
The Nasdaq has closed its worst month since March 2025, and the reason is the size of the AI bill
Earnings are not matching the spending, and that gap is what a bubble warning actually looks like from the inside.
World
A coroner has written formally to ministers about the sextortion scam that contributed to an 18-year-old’s death
The scammers demanded money and threatened to send intimate images to his friends and to YouTube. They sent one to a Facebook friend to…