Bangladesh

Students who failed the 2026 Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will be given another opportunity to sit the exams, Education Adviser to the Prime Minister Dr Mahdi Amin has announced. He made the announcement at the results publication ceremony at the Secretariat on Saturday. Mahdi Amin said the Education Ministry would decide whether the re-examinations could be arranged ...

A total of 40,084 students achieved the highest Grade Point Average (GPA-5) in this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations, while the overall pass rate stood at 52.12 per cent. Education and Primary and Mass Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon officially announced the results on Saturday morning. A total of 1,270,583 candidates appeared in this year’s HSC ...

The pass rate in the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations 2026 stood at 52.12 per cent, down from 58.83 per cent in 2025, Education Minister Dr ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon announced on Saturday morning. A total of 40,084 students achieved GPA-5 this year, while 69,097 students secured GPA-5 in 2025. This year the pass rates are 61.80% in ...

Bangladesh and the United Kingdom have discussed strengthening cooperation on climate adaptation and resilience, access to climate finance and the renewable energy transition to address shared climate challenges. The issues featured at a meeting between State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaed Islam and the UK’s Special Representative for Climate Rachel Kyte in London on Thursday, said a foreign ministry ...

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has formed an investigation committee to determine the cause of a technical glitch in a flight carrying Prime Minister Tarique Rahman from Japan. The four-member committee has been asked to submit its report within four working days. The committee was formed through an office order signed on Friday by Air Commodore Md Niamul Kabir, Director of Administration ...

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has recovered a motorcycle suspected to have been used by former Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) officer Flight Lieutenant KM Tahsif Sauri, whose body was found in the Turag River, as investigators continue probing his death. Mohammad Abu Yusuf, superintendent of police (Law and Media Wing) of the PBI, said on Friday morning that the ...

United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ambassador to Bangladesh HE Abdulla Ali AlHmoudi held a meeting with technology leaders in Dhaka to discuss potential bilateral cooperation across key technological sectors, including artificial intelligence (AI) and smart-city initiatives. The discussions were held with Martin Yates, Government Technology Advisor of the UAE Executive Leadership Team at Presight, and Major General (retd) Md Ashikuzzaman, ndc, ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman reached Dhaka on a regular flight early Friday following a four-day official tour to Japan. The flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 2:48am on Friday. Earlier, the aircraft left Tokyo for Dhaka at 7:55pm Thursday Bangladesh time, after engineers fixed a technical glitch that had delayed the flight by ...

BNP-nominated candidate Mirza Faisal Amin has been unofficially declared the winner of the Thakurgaon-1 by-election, contesting with the party’s sheaf of paddy symbol. District Returning Officer and District Election Officer Kamrul Islam announced the unofficial result on Thursday night (October 29). Voting in the by-election was held from 8AM to 4PM on Thursday. A total of 21 platoons of Border ...

The Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight carrying Prime Minister Tarique Rahman and his entourage has departed from Japan’s Narita International Airport for Dhaka, five hours behind schedule, after a technical fault delayed its departure. The flight took off for Dhaka at around 10:45 pm local time in Japan on Thursday. A member of the prime minister’s entourage confirmed the information to ...