Police have dispersed a group of HSC students when they were staging demonstration at the Secretariat demanding re-evaluation of their results.Witnesses said some 50-60 students, who failed in the HSC examinations or got poor results, stormed the Secretariat around 3 pm and chanted slogans demanding re-evaluation of their results published recently.Students stage demo protesting HSC results through subject mapping; several injured The protesters also threatened to stage a sit-in until their demand is not met. At one stage, police chased them and charged batons to disperse them. Police detained 54 students from the spot who were taken to Shahbagh Police Station in two prison vans, said an assistant superintendent of police at the Secretariat. Earlier on October 20, a group of students under the banner of ‘HSC-Batch 2024’ entered the Dhaka Education Board premises and staged a demonstration opposing the HSC results terming it ‘discriminatory’. Terming the results as discriminatory the students demanded the government to publish the results through mapping of all subjects. On October 15, the results of HSC and its equivalent examinations were published.

The ‘BSRF-Walton Sports Festival-2022’ will kick off Monday. Mesbah Uddin, secretary to youth and sports ministry, is expected to inaugurate the festival around 9.30am, Tapon Biswas, president of the Bangladesh Secretariat Reporter's Forum disclosed this at a press conference at the media center in secretariat on Sunday. Read more: Jatiya Press Club launched 10-day sports festival on Monday A total of seven events will held at the festival while members of the BSRF will participate in six events and another event is for non-member journalists. The events include chess, single and dual carom, card, table tennis, ludu for members and non-members.

A technician was electrocuted to death while repairing the intercom system of the social welfare ministry at the secretariat in Dhaka Wednesday. Mujahid Uddin, 45, was from Narayanganj. His co-worker Moniruzzaman Rony said they went to the secretariat to fix the intercom system of the ministry. The 45-year-old was electrocuted while working on a ladder in a corridor on the second floor of building No. 6. Read: College student electrocuted, another injured in Sherpur He was declared dead after being rushed to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) at 5:30pm in a critical condition, Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of the DMCH Police Outpost, said. The body was kept at the hospital morgue for autopsy, he added.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud on Monday said the whole country is watching that BNP is not in the field but its leaers are giving speeches on televisions from their homes.

A mobile court here on Thursday fined six drivers for blowing horns in the ‘No Horn Zone’ around the Secretariat in the city.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud on Wednesday said the ‘Media Workers Bill’ will be placed in the Cabinet very soon.