Volume 4 Number 156 Thu. October 30, 2003       Advertise with The Daily Star -- Advertising on the Website    Advertising in the Printed E dition-- Home  News Today's Index Front Page Business Political Sports Foreign Relations Metropolitan National International Culture General Views Editorial Letters to Editor Write to Editor Sections Others About Us Contact Advertisement Suppliments Archives Focus   Bottom line What did Mahathir actually say at the OIC Summit? On 16th October, Datu Seri Dr.   HSC result and non-functioning colleges Diagnosing the ills is imperative The result of this year's HSC examination has not shown any spectacular improvement over the previous year's in spite of the fact that government and functionaries in the colleges made efforts to rise   Asia's economic ascendancy Is it here to stay? We have had many false dawns about Asian economic ascendancy. Blistering growth of the nineties was the last one, but sadly it all came melting down with the Asian financial crisis of 1997. Spreading higher education in villages An act of philanthropy worth emulation Education is the backbone of the nation, as many educationists would have us believe. There is no dispute about this axiom. Almost 50 per cent of the population of present-day Bangladesh is female.     Advertisement