Students stage demo

Several students were injured in an attack allegedly by some staff of Dhaka Education Board when they were staging demonstration protesting the results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations through subject mapping on Sunday, reports UNB.

Witnesses said a group of students under the banner of 'HSC-Batch 2024' entered the Dhaka Education Board premises and staged demonstration opposing the HSC results terming it 'discriminatory'.

Four of the injured were taken to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.

Professor Tapan Kumar Sarkar, Chairman of Dhaka Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, said the students who failed to pass the examinations were staging protests.

Some students might have sustained injuries while vandalising rooms of the education board, he added.