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of increasingly intense hailstorms and more frequent lightning strikes, both linked to climate change. These factors are major contributors to injuries and fatalities during storms.

Until yesterday, secondary schools, colleges, madrasas, and technical schools across Dhaka and 24 other districts were mostly closed, with some classes held in between, due to the prolonged heatwave that has been afflicting the country since April 1.

However, starting today, classes will resume at all secondary schools, colleges, madrasas, and technical educational institutions across the country, said a press release issued last evening by the education ministry’s Public Relations Officer MA Khair.

On the other hand, sources from the Primary and Mass Education Ministry said all primary schools will also resume classes today, while pre-primary classes will remain suspended until further notice.

Mahbubur Rahman, the ministry’s PRO, however, mentioned that morning assemblies at all primary schools would remain suspended as previously directed owing to the ongoing heatwave.