Despite the government’s offer of fresh tests for candidates who missed exams due to adverse weather, HSC examinees protested for a second consecutive day in Dhaka and several districts, demanding optional retests for those who sat exams amid rain and waterlogging.

A Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinee is choked to death after her scarf got tangled with the wheel of a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Noakhali municipality.

Transport movement on Mirpur Road is disrupted as HSC examinees of City College blocked a road in front of its campus in Dhaka demanding a change in their examination venue.