The attacker, his family and accomplice have been charged on count of attempted murder on eminent educationist Prof Zafar Iqbal back in March.

An aide of the lone attacker of Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal is placed on a seven-day remand today, a day after he was arrested in Sylhet yesterday.

Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal will re-join Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust) today, said his personal secretary Joynal

As I write this piece, a picture of a stunned Professor Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, drenched in rain, after an assault on a teachers' demo at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) on August 30 has gone viral, thanks to social networking sites and the media.