SSC results: Rural students left behind again
Less than 50 per cent students from rural schools passed the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations for the third consecutive year ending 2016.
Nizami buried
The executed Jamaat-e-Islami amir Motiur Rahman Nizami was buried at Santhia in Pabna on Wednesday morning while Jamaat and Shibir activists held ghayebana janaza for Nizami at places including Dhaka amidst some incidents of clashes in Chittagong and Rajshahi.
Quarrel over cricket claims GPA 5 holder’s life
A schoolboy was killed in a quarrel over playing cricket in the capital’s Mirpur on Wednesday, hours before his result of GPA 5 in this year’s secondary school certificate examinations was out. The victim was identified as Babul Shikder, 17, son of Mostafa Shikder and resident of Barabagh area of Mirpur.
PM sees no justification of failure in public exams
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has said she sees no justification of failure in the examination as the government is providing huge opportunities for them for studies.
SSC results published with 88.29 pass rate
The results of Secondary School Certificate and its equivalent examinations published on Wednesday morning with pass rate 88.29 per cent which last year was 87.04 per cent.
Sanders beats Clinton in West Virginia, CNN projects
Bernie Sanders will win the West Virginia primary Tuesday, CNN projects, besting Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
U.S. destroyer sails near disputed Chinese island
The U.S. Navy on Tuesday sent a guided missile destroyer within 12 miles of a disputed island in the South China Sea where China has built an airstrip -- prompting China to scramble fighter jets and dispatch warships to "expel" the American ship.
North Korean general, reported executed, turns up at party congress
A senior North Korean military leader believed executed earlier this year for "factionalism, misuse of authority and corruption" seems to be alive and still a part of the secretive nation's ruling party after all.
Donald Trump finds allies on Europe's right
Donald Trump received more international criticism Tuesday, this time from London's newly elected mayor, Sadiq Khan.
Nizami hanged
Jamaat-e-Islami amir Motiur Rahman Nizami was hanged at Dhaka Central Jail on early Wednesday for crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 War of Independence. Nizami, 73, was hanged at 12:10am on Wednesday, senior jail superintendent Jahangir Kabir told reporters at the jail gate.
