Most incidents perpetrated by BCL members, students' rights organisation says

A Dhaka University student died after falling from one of the buildings of Jagannath Hall in the campus this morning.

A Dhaka University student, who brought an allegation of sexual harassment against a teacher in December last year, is yet to get justice as the university’s anti-sexual harassment cell could not finish its probe eight months on.

The apathy towards ending sexual harassment on campus is a symptom of wider institutional control.

He is a serial rapist and he tried to kill the Dhaka University student after raping her in the capital’s Kurmitola area on Sunday night, Rab said hours after arresting the suspect in nearby Shewra area yesterday.

Dhaka University students yesterday blocked the Shahbagh intersection for two hours, demanding the university cancel affiliation of the capital’s seven colleges with it.

Members of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student body of ruling Awami League, allegedly beat up two students of Dhaka University in front of Surjo Sen hall.

Students and teachers of Dhaka University and Jahangirnagar University stage demonstrations protesting the manhandling of Dhaka University teacher Fahmidul Haq and temporary detention of writer and anthropologist Rahnuma Ahmed, and former student leader Baki Billah.

A student was beaten allegedly by several Bangladesh Chhatra League activists for “unknown reasons” at Dhaka University early yesterday.

Law enforcers claim to have arrested two people including a private university student in Dhaka last night on charge of fraud.

IT is indeed heartening to see justice finally meted out to Md Helal Uddin, who as the OC of Khilgaon Police station picked up Abdul Kadar, a meritorious Dhaka University student, tortured him in custody and later tried to arrest him on trumped-up charges.