The day started full of hope and enthusiasm for the family of Tajera Begum but turned tragic before noon.

With the secondary students doing better in mathematics, the SSC results this year show a rise in both the pass rate and the number of GPA-5 achievers in eight general education boards.

Visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is likely to raise the issue of the recent attacks on religious minorities in Bangladesh during his meetings with the government high-ups.

Pakistan national parliament has once again sided with war criminals by passing a resolution to express serious concerns over the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami. This has caused a huge outcry in Bangladesh and risks further straining of the relations between the two countries. Ministers and war crimes trial campaigners have termed the resolution a brazen attempt to meddle in internal affairs of the country.

The International Olympic Committee yesterday granted a 'wild card' for shooter Abdullah Hel Baki for the upcoming Olympic Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from August 5 to 21.

Pakistan’s parliament passes a unanimous resolution expressing “concern” and condemns the hanging of war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami. Sidewise, the country’s foreign ministry issues a statement voicing sadness over the execution. It also terms the execution “unfortunate.”

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the government wants to ensure education for all as no nation can prosper without education.

India’s foreign secretary has arrived in Dhaka to hold discussion with Bangladesh’s high-ups on security situation and bilateral issues.

Mark Davis, coach of Sussex County Cricket Club, wants the latest bowling sensation of Bangladesh Mustafizur Rahman to play the NatWest T20 Blast, and then remain at the club until late August to play in the Royal London One-Day Cup.

A GPA-5 scorer is killed in a clash centering a cricket match in Mirpur area of Dhaka, hours before the SSC results were published.

The US Department of State’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs William E Todd will lead an interagency delegation on a visit to Bangladesh.

A tribunal in Dhaka will deliver its verdict any day in the case against three Habiganj men who are facing four charges of crimes against humanity they allegedly committed during the 1971 Liberation War.

Police presses charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 23 others in two cases filed for arson attacks in Darussalam area of Dhaka.

Five people including a teacher of Kushtia’s Islami University are killed and 28 injured in separate road accidents in Magura and Manikganj.

Executed Jamaat ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami is buried at his village home in Santhia upazila in Pabna. Relatives and a few locals attended his namaz-e-janaza held at a madrasa at Monmothpur before he was buried around 7:15am.

A total of 88.29 percent students pass this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations, which is 1.25 percentage points higher than that of last year.

State Minister for Social Welfare Promod Mankin dies of cancer while undergoing treatment at a hospital in India. He was 77.

Despite a superb six-wicket haul by leg-spinner Adam Zampa, Rising Pune Supergiants suffer a narrow four-run loss against Sunrisers Hyderabad to end their hopes of qualifying for the knockout stage.

It was the final act of brutality against a nation yearning to be free. The ruthless militia systematically rounded up one by one and tortured and brutally killed the nation's brightest minds. What it wanted was to execute the evil plot of Pakistan occupation forces to wipe out the Bangalee intelligentsia towards the end of the Liberation War in 1971.

War criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami's appointment as a minister by the BNP-led government was a slap in the face to our Liberation