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SSC exam results and school studies

The SSC exam pass rate this year fell by five percent and this may seem a negative outcome. However, the fact that over 87% of the students passed in the 10 boards, despite the political violence and fear, is not something to be overlooked. It took nearly nine weeks to complete a five-week exam. Even so, the results were published in time and the 1.3 million students or so have been spared from a possible session jam.

For the first time, the creative system in maths was introduced in SSC exams, resulting in a higher rate of failure. This should not have been so. After all, in this system, each step of the answer is marked. If mistakes are made in one step, the student will not receive a zero for the entire sum. In fact, it is said that it is hard to fail in the creative system of maths. Once the students get use to the system, the percentage of success will be higher.

There may be some disappointment that the system of  announcing "best 20" or "best 10" educational institutions will be done away with from next year, but it is actually a good thing. After all, there has been some unfortunate reports of institutions resorting to "unnatural, unethical and dishonest means" to get in the select list. This must be stopped at any cost.

About 112,000 student attained GPA 5. The biggest challenge for the government now is to ensure that these best of the best have ample opportunity for higher education.

The question has also arisen as to whether to retain the present MCQ system or not. All factors must be taken into consideration, including the fact that this system is followed in developed countries.

For good results in the future, stress must be laid on studies at school

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Why women are better at remembering tasks-to-do

Now is the time to finally listen to your wife as women are better than men at remembering things to do, a new study finds.

The study involved putting 100 men and women through a battery of memory tests. These judged prospective memory; that is remembering to carry out plans.

The volunteers, who were aged between 15 and 40, found it harder to remember to do things the further they were into the future, Daily Mail reported.

The females also excelled at remembering plans that involved doing, rather than saying, something.

“A real life example of this would be, in a family, you would expect the woman to be the one to remember to buy some milk after work,” researcher Liana Palermo from the Aston University in Birmingham was quoted as saying.

“Or she will remember to give a book back to a friend when she sees him next. She will be better at all of these kind of tasks than a man,” Palermo added.

Palermo said the gender difference may be down to differences in hormones or brain structure.

The brain’s memory hub shrinks in men, but not in women, between the ages of 20 and 40.

“An alternative hypothesis is that the sex differences we found could be due to the care-taking role often assumed by women and the fact that in addition to work responsibilities, women also have more responsibilities at home,” Palermo said.

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Watling ton as New Zealand turn screw on England

BJ Watling scored a fine century as New Zealand dominated the final session with steely resolve to reach 338 for six on the third day of the second test against England on Sunday.

Watling and Brendon McCullum added 121 runs against a toothless England attack to help New Zealand move 338 ahead with two days of a fluctuating match left, well placed to level the two-test series at 1-1.

England had resumed in the morning on 253 for five in overcast conditions at Headingley and New Zealand fast bowler Tim Southee claimed three early wickets to reduce the hosts to 267 for eight.

Ian Bell, on 12, edged a wide ball to Mark Craig at second slip, Jos Buttler nicked a full delivery to Ross Taylor at first slip to depart for 10 and Moeen Ali made one before being smartly taken at third slip by Martin Guptill.

New Zealand were eyeing a healthy first-innings lead but Stuart Broad and Mark Wood had other ideas and the pair added 51 for the ninth wicket from 49 balls.

Off-spinner Craig had Wood caught by wicketkeeper Luke Ronchi for 19 but Broad put on 32 for the last wicket with James Anderson before being bowled for 46.

England were all out for 350, only the eighth time in test history that both teams made the same total in their first innings.

Broad continued to shine after lunch with the ball.

Tom Latham edged him to wicketkeeper Buttler for three and Kane Williamson fell in identical fashion for six to leave New Zealand tottering on 23 for two.

But Guptill and Taylor, dropped on six by Gary Ballance at slip, raced to a fifty partnership off 28 balls.

Guptill lifted Moeen straight for six to reach his half-century but the stand was broken at 99, Taylor driving Wood to Ben Stokes at cover to fall for 48.

Guptill’s fine knock ended on 70 when he edged Wood to Joe Root at third slip but McCullum and Watling showed fierce determination in a patient fifth-wicket partnership.

McCullum went past 6,000 test runs, the second New Zealander after Stephen Fleming to achieve the feat, before Wood trapped him lbw for 55.

Ronchi, after making a rapid 31, was caught by Buttler off Anderson but Watling completed a deserved century, his fifth in tests which included a six and 13 fours.

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Tsonga shines on gloomy day at French Open

 

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat fourth seed Tomas Berdych at a weather-hit Roland Garros on Sunday, winning their fourth round tie 6-3, 6-2, 6-7 (5/7), 6-3 on a day of mixed fortunes for French hopes.

The 14th seed’s emphatic win was followed by a loss for Gilles Simon, who went down 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 to eighth seeded Swiss Stan Wawrinka.

Then Gael Monfils saw his contest with Roger Federer suspended due to poor light with the score level at one set all. It will resume Monday afternoon with the winner going up against Wawrinka.

In the other match completed, Japan’s fifth-seeded Kei Nishikori comfortably saw off the challenge of Russia’s Teymuraz Gabashvili and he will be the next opponent for Tsonga.

Berdych looked out of sorts from the start against Tsonga in the cold, damp conditions that marked the tournament’s second Sunday, allowing the French favourite to dominate rally after rally with his powerful serve and shot-making.

The Czech player rallied briefly in the third set as Tsonga’s level dropped, but after a brief scare at the start of the fourth set, Tsonga won five games in a row to move through.

The 14th seeded Frenchman will take on Nishikori with the prospect of reaching what would be just his second appearance in a French Open semi-final.

“It was not easy because I played really well during three sets. And when it was time to finish I played a little bit differently and because he’s a good player, he came back in the match,” Tsonga said.

“Then I started to miss a little bit more. But I had a good reaction in the fourth, and finally I won it. So it’s good for me. I’m happy to beat a guy like this—one of the best at the moment.”

Tsonga was one of five French players into the last 16, equalling the best home showing at Roland Garros in the Open-era since 1968.

But on the two previous occasions that happened, only one man reached the quarter-finals.

His win briefly raised French hopes, but they were soon let down when current French number one Simon was thrashed by Wawrinka, the 2014 Australian Open winner who is perfectly at home on clay, having grown up playing on the surface in Lausanne.

“It was perfect and I am happy to have won the match. I had been expecting a tough match against Gilles, but I played very well, aggressive, as the conditions were slow,” Wawrinka said.

The Monfils-Federer match always looked likely to be unfinished at the end of the day as darkness started to fall to add to the gloomy conditions as they took to the court.

Second seed and 2009 champion Federer dominated the opening set, with Monfils looking exasperated at times with the wind and the cold.

But as ever, the French showman dug deep and found some fresh reserves to level the set scores before the match referee called both men to the net and they all agreed to sleep on it.

The two other Frenchmen into the last 16 -- Richard Gasquet and Jeremy Chardy—were down to play their ties on Monday with Gasquet against top see Novak Djokovic and Chardy facing third seed Andy Murray.

No Frenchman has won at Roland Garros since Yannick Noah in 1983 and prior to that it was Marcel Bernard in 1946.

Nishikori’s win made him the first Japanese man in 82 years to reach the French Open quarter-finals.

Jiro Satoh was the last Japanese man to enjoy such a run in Paris when he went on to the semi-finals in 1931 and 1933.

Nishikori hadn’t played since Wednesday after scheduled third round opponent Benjamin Becker withdrew with an injury.

Asked about his thoughts about taking on Tsonga in the last eight, Asia’s top player, who reached the final of the US Open last September, said he expected it to be a “fun match.”

“We haven’t played for a long time, maybe couple of years,” he said.

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Channing Tatum in ‘Two Kisses for Maddy’

 

Actor Channing Tatum is set to produce and likely headline Sony Pictures’ upcoming father-daughter drama “Two Kisses for Maddy”.

The film, based on Matthew Logelin’s memoir “Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love”, centers on his marriage, the death of his wife 27 hours after she gave birth to their daughter and his experiences of raising his daughter as a single parent, reports variety.com.

“Two Kisses for Maddy”, which took its title from the kisses Logelin gave his daughter each night, landed on the New York Times bestseller list when it was published in 2011.

The project was set up in 2012 as a Lifetime movie with Marta Kaufman and Denise DiNovi as executive producers but did not go forward.

Tatum will produce with partner Peter Kiernan through his Free Association production company. Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey will also produce under Temple Hill Entertainment.

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Why BNP silent on Salahuddin?

BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed was found 10 days ago, two months after he had gone missing. BNP maintains a mysterious silence on the issue, provoking questions from various quarters.

Salahuddin was found on 12 May in Shillong, the capital of the Indian state of Meghalaya. Till Thursday, BNP has made no official statement in this regard. The party is not making a diplomatic move to get him back either. When he went missing on 10 March, BNP issued a statement the next day, saying that 20 to 30 members of law enforcement agencies, including the police, detective branch (DB) and RAB have picked him up from a house in Uttara. His family made the same claims.

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia had also warned, "If anything happens to Salahuddin, there will be dire consequences." At a meeting just two days before Salahuddin was found, Khaleda had said, "Salahuddin Ahmed is with RAB. Return him to his family immediately, or put him back from where you took him."

A day after Salahuddin was found, Khaleda had a meeting with the Jatiyatabadi Muktijoddha Dal on 12 May at her Gulshan office. Even then Khaleda made no statement about Salahuddin. She has made statements in the media demanding the release of the party's incarcerated leaders, but with no mention of Salahuddin. Within 12 to 19 May, BNP has held several press conferences on various issues, but Salahuddin was not mentioned.

At a press conference on 14 May, reporters asked about the silence on the Salahuddin issue. BNP's spokesperson Asaduzzaman Ripon said, Salahuddin's actual condition needs to be confirmed. Members of his family are going to Meghalaya shortly and then his condition will be known. BNP will speak about it then.

BNP leaders have said that a decision has been taken from the top leadership of the party to remain silent on Salahuddin. They are not capitalising on the issue for political ends, but viewing it from a humanitarian angle. The interests of Salahuddin's family are being given priority.

Two leaders of BNP's foreign affairs wing are looking after the Salahuddin issue behind the scenes. They are in communication with the Indian High Commission in Dhaka. BNP hasn't sent any party leader of team as yet. The party's central assistant office secretary Abdul Latif had gone to Shillong on his own accord and is still there.

BNP joint secretary general Mohammed Shahjahan told Prothom Alo, "Salahuddin is Ahmed a BNP leader. But he is also a husband and a father. We are giving priority to that. We don't want his family t be harmed because of the party."

Salahuddin's wife Hasina Ahmed met with Khaleda before she left for Meghalaya. She requested that the party not make any statements in the media about Salahuddin at the moment. She feared this would bring further harm to him. After that Khaleda instructed her party leaders to maintain silence on the matter for the time being.

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28 IS militants killed in Iraq airstrikes

 

Iraqi security forces on Saturday continued their battles against Islamic State (IS) militants in the western Anbar province, while air strikes killed 28 IS militants, including senior leaders, security sources and official television said.

In Anbar province, the security forces and allied militias known as Hashd Shaabi, moved closer to the IS-held provincial capital city of Ramadi, some 110 km west of Baghdad, and seized the provincial traffic police headquarters after fierce clashes with IS militants, a source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The troops also advanced from another route south of Ramadi when they recaptured the village of Albu Jabir, just south of Ramadi after clashes with IS militants who fled their positions in the village and withdrew towards the city, the source said.

Also in the province, dozens of IS militants attacked a military base in al-Shiha area near the militant-seized town of Garma, just east of the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, leaving at least 15 security members and Hashd Shaabi fighters dead and some 22 wounded, he said.

Meanwhile, Iraqi airstrikes, according to reports from a special intelligence cell named Suqour, pounded a meeting of IS leaders and foreign fighters at a safe house in the town of Qaim, near the border with Syria, leaving 28 militants dead, the state-run Iraqiya channel quoted a report from the intelligence cell.

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International effort rescues over 5,000 Mediterranean migrants

 

The corpses of 17 migrants were brought ashore in Sicily aboard an Italian naval vessel on Sunday along with 454 survivors as efforts intensified to rescue people fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East.

More than 5,000 migrants trying to reach Europe have been saved from boats in distress in the Mediterranean since Friday and operations are in progress to rescue 500 more, European Union authorities said on Sunday.

In some of the most intense Mediterranean traffic of the year, migrants who left Libya in 25 boats were picked up by ships from Italy, Britain, Malta and Belgium, assisted by planes from Iceland and Finland, the EU's border control agency Frontex said.

Naval and merchant vessels involved in rescue operations also came from countries including Germany, Ireland and Denmark.

The 17 corpses found on one of the boats arrived in the Sicilian port of Augusta aboard the Italian navy corvette Fenice. Italian prosecutors are investigating how they died.

Frontex is coordinating an EU rescue mission in the Mediterranean known as Triton, which was stepped up after around 800 migrants drowned off Libya in April in the Mediterranean's most deadly shipwreck in living memory.

"This is the biggest wave of migrants we have seen in 2015," Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri said in a written statement. "The new vessels that joined operation Triton this week have already saved hundreds of people."

Italy has so far borne the brunt of Mediterranean rescue operations. Most of the migrants depart from the coast of Libya, which has descended into anarchy since Western powers backed a 2011 revolt that ousted Muammar Gaddafi.

Calm seas are increasingly favoring departures as warm spring weather sets in.

The migrants saved over the weekend are all being disembarked at nine ports on the Italian islands of Lampedusa, Sicily and Sardinia and on its southern mainland regions of Calabria and Puglia.

The latest wave of more than 5,000 arrivals will take the total of those reaching Italy by boat across the Mediterranean this year to more than 40,000, according to estimates by the United Nations refugee agency.

The EU this month agreed on a naval mission to target gangs smuggling migrants from Libya, but a broader plan to deal with the influx is in doubt due to a dispute over national quotas for housing asylum seekers.

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Sepp Blatter faces bigger challenge at divided Fifa

 

It was like time had stood still.

As Sepp Blatter was re-elected Fifa president on Friday he made almost exactly the same speech he did in 2011 about the need to pull together and root out corruption.

 
The reputation of football's world governing body had been dragged through the mud and had to be restored, said the Swiss.
 
The trust of the football family had to be won back and words had to be turned into action.
 
Even the metaphor was the same as he talked about guiding the Fifa ship out of troubled waters and into a placid harbour.
 
But this time Blatter's challenge, as he enters a fifth term that which will take him to the ripe old age of 83, is considerably greater than four years ago.
 
Not only has Fifa failed to change its scandal-plagued image, it faces an even bigger credibility crisis after United States prosecutors unveiled the gory details of alleged corruption in football, some involving top Fifa officials.
 
To complicate matters Fifa is also showing the first signs of a dangerous split in its ranks.
 
It is a combination that will even test a survivor like Blatter who has spent much of his 17 years in office fighting one crisis after another.
 
In 2011 Blatter received the backing of 186 of the 208- member associations at the time as he was returned unopposed.
 
Bitter opposition
 
This time round he faced bitter opposition from Europe, home of the world's most powerful clubs, the last three world champions and the continent where nearly all of the globe's top players ply their trade.
 
Blatter secured 133 votes and challenger Prince Ali bin Al Hussein got 73.
 
It was not enough to win in the first round of voting but Prince Ali withdrew and the Swiss was re-elected.
 
"There is so much pressure on that man. If I were him I should reconsider continuing, that is my advice to him," Dutch FA president Michael van Praag told reporters.
 
"I already told him many times, whatever he does from now on, even if he takes good decisions, nobody in the world will buy that anymore," said Van Praag, a Fifa presidential candidate before withdrawing his bid.
 
European football's governing body UEFA fell out with Blatter last year when he backtracked on a promise that his fourth term would be his last.
 
UEFA president Michel Platini said his federation would no longer support Blatter and the Frenchman was even more emphatic on the eve of Friday's election.
 
Platini explained that he had laid it on the line to Blatter in a frank and personal encounter in the president's room at Fifa headquarters.
 
"I have affection for Mr Blatter and he always said he was like an uncle to me," said Platini. "But enough is enough.
 
"If I cannot tell him it is time to stop then who can? A true friend can tell another friend the reality. I said it with a tear in my eye," added Platini, a one-time ally of the Fifa president.
 
World Cup boycott
 
There was even talk of European teams leading a World Cup boycott, something previously considered unthinkable by many football fans.
 
"If the whole of UEFA said that, and all of the countries were willing to do it, I think that is right," said English FA chairman Greg Dyke.
 
Platini warned Fifa that cutting the number of slots allocated to Europe at the World Cup was a "red line not to be crossed".
 
Fifa may quite reasonably think Europe is over-represented after seven of its 13 teams went out in the group stage of the 2014 World Cup.
 
But Platini was adamant, saying: "Europe will not lose a slot in 2018, we will stick to 13. That will not be changed, we are not going to allow that".
 
Platini did not elaborate about would happen if Fifa crossed the line but the idea of a UEFA boycott hung in the air.
 
Football is generally free of the breakaway and splinter groups that have plagued other sports and media pundits say such a move by UEFA would be a calamity for the World Cup.
 
Europe threw its weight on Friday behind Blatter's challenger, Prince Ali of Jordan, and there were noises that national associations from other regions were prepared to join them.
 
However, Blatter has mastered the electoral system where the 209-member associations each hold one vote, meaning that tiny Sao Tome e Principe hold the same polling rights as football superpowers like Argentina and Germany.
 
Fifa distributes revenue equally among its 209 members and, away from the wealth and glamour of the big European leagues, such handouts are a lifeline for smaller federations.
 
There was a perfect example before the election as this week's Congress delegates were shown a film highlighting Fifa development projects in the Comoros Islands, Costa Rica and Guam.
 
Around Africa, South America, Asia and the Caribbean, federations see Blatter as the force keeping the game truly global in the face of growing financial power from a handful of elite European clubs and leagues.
 
When Blatter made his 15-minute electoral address to Congress it was clear he would be re-elected as applause rung round the auditorium before he had finished.
 
"It's a question of confidence, a matter of trust, trust on your side," he said. "I am at your disposal and if you want me I thank you for it.

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Fifa's Blatter comes out fighting despite scandal and divisions

 

Fifa President Sepp Blatter came out fighting on Saturday as he began his fifth term in charge of soccer's governing body, implying that the United States timed the announcement of a major corruption probe to try to scupper his re-election bid.

The 79-year-old Swiss comfortably won Friday's vote at a Fifa congress in Zurich, having secured the support of blocks of votes from Asia and Africa which outweighed dissenters including Europe's powerful soccer body UEFA.
 
He now faces the daunting task of restoring public faith in an organisation tainted by allegations of graft and deeply divided over his leadership.
 
In an interview late on Friday, he showed few signs of wanting to unite one of the world's most powerful sports bodies that takes in billions of dollars in revenue from television marketing rights and sponsorships.
 
"No one is going to take it off me that it was a simple coincidence (that) this American attack (happened) two days before the elections of Fifa," Blatter told the RTS Swiss television channel in an interview.
 
"Why didn't they (the police) do this in March when we had the same meeting? At that time, we had less journalists."
 
In a dawn swoop on a Zurich hotel on Wednesday, Swiss police arrested seven leading soccer officials, including Fifa vice-president Jeffrey Webb.
 
The arrests were connected to a bribery scandal being investigated by US, Swiss and other law enforcement agencies that plunged Fifa into the worst crisis in its 111-year history.
 
Blatter also singled out UEFA, whose president Michel Platini had called for his resignation.
 
"It is a hate not only by one person of UEFA but by the organisation of UEFA that has not understood that I have been president since 1998," Blatter said. "I forgive everyone but I don't forget."
 
Blatter's expanding power base
 
Blatter has not been implicated in any wrongdoing, but having ruled Fifa for nearly 20 years during which it has regularly been subject to suspicions of graft, his critics have argued it was time for him to step down.
 
His supporters welcomed the outcome of a vote that pitted the veteran incumbent against a sole challenger, 39-year-old Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan.
 
"The AFC (Asian Football Confederation) has always supported the Fifa President and we are happy to continue working with him and Fifa to further develop Asian and world football into the future," Asian football chief Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa said on Saturday.
 
That support reflects Blatter's success in expanding Fifa's membership away from soccer's heartlands and in exploiting resentment in Africa and Asia over the perceived arrogance of the game's powerhouse nations in Europe and South America.
 
Despite Blatter's re-election, the scandal surrounding the investigations into corruption looks set to rumble on.
 
Platini has raised the possibility, albeit slim, of Europe boycotting the World Cup tournament, soccer's showcase played every four years.
 
There has also been talk of UEFA breaking away from Fifa, although that is also seen as unlikely.
 
England's Football Association chairman Greg Dyke, another vocal critic of Blatter, said the row within Fifa was unlikely to end with Friday's vote.
 
His vice-chairman David Gill confirmed on Saturday he would not take up his post on Fifa's executive committee.
 
"The terribly damaging events of the last three days have convinced me it is not appropriate to be a member of the Fifa executive committee under the current leadership," he said.
 
More indictments to come?
 
Blatter's future could yet depend on the reaction of Fifa's major sponsors and stakeholders such as Coca-Cola and McDonald's who have been dismayed by the arrests and US prosecutors announcing indictments of officials and companies.
 
A senior US Internal Revenue Service official said on Friday he thought there would be further indictments, the New York Times reported, although he declined to identify the remaining targets of the investigation.
 
Swiss prosecutors are investigating the award of the World Cup finals to Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022, decisions that have deepened rifts within Fifa.
 
The choice of Qatar, a small desert state where summer daytime temperatures rarely fall below 40 degrees Celsius, was especially contentious and went against the advice of Fifa's own technical committee.
 
Russia and Qatar deny wrongdoing in their bids to host the prestigious tournament, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of meddling in an effort to force Blatter out.
 
When asked after the vote if he could guarantee the next World Cup would still be staged in Russia, Fifa's secretary general Jerome Valcke told reporters: "Yes, yes. I mean now today, if you ask me the question at twenty to eight, yes the World Cup will be played in Russia and Qatar."
 
Away from the crisis engulfing soccer's administration, the under-20 World Cup got underway in New Zealand, and more than 25,000 people turned up in Auckland for the opening game.
 
And preparations for the Women's World Cup, which opens in Canada on June 6, continued with a friendly between the hosts and England before a sellout crowd in Hamilton, Ontario.

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