The Daily Star today honoured top achievers in the O- & A- Level exams by awarding them at a programme at Mirpur Indoor Stadium in the capital, Dhaka.

Recognising their academic brilliance this year, 1,760 awardees were honoured at The Daily Star's O and A level Award Presentation Ceremony.

The 16th annual award ceremony also gave special recognition to 180 students – 52 for achieving the highest scores in the world in different subjects and 128 for outperforming the rest in Bangladesh.

The Daily Star initiated the unique annual event in 1999. This year 1,224 students who got at least six A's in O-level and 356 who received three A's in A-level in 2013-2014 academic session received the awards.