The cabinet yesterday approved a proposal to increase salaries of judges in line with the Eight National Pay Scale.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will sit today with a delegation of public university teachers agitating over "pay disparities" in the eighth national pay scale to discuss the ongoing stalemate at the universities.

An indefinite teachers' strike begins at all the public universities today in protest at the “government inaction” on fulfilling their demands, including removal of "discriminatory provisions" in the eighth national pay scale and retaining selection grade and time scale.

Teachers of Jahangirnagar University start a week-long work abstention programme protesting Finance Minister AMA Muhith’s statement that there is no scope left for the review of the 8th national pay scale in favour of the university teachers.