Students from different halls marched in a procession to the spot and blocked the tracks around 11:45am

Photos of convicted war criminals were removed from an exhibition organised by Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir at Dhaka University yesterday, following protests from students who called the display “an affront to the spirit of the Liberation War.”

The demonstration began around 11:30am; road communication between southern region and rest of Bangladesh hampered

As of 5:00pm, the students were still occupying the roads

Protesters tell govt as demonstrations held against rising cases of rape, mugging, robbery

Heavy traffic congestion in adjoining areas

For three days we were a state without a government.

Identity and ideology politics also played an essential role in brewing the Bangla Bashanta.

Why did a student movement that started with a demand to reform a discriminatory and unconstitutional system get so violent?

Is it not easier to defeat your enemies in parliament than to be permanently on the warpath against some shapeshifting enemy?

President Abdul Hamid, also the chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) in Gopalganj, accepts the resignation letter of the university’s Vice Chancellor Khondoker Nasiruddin with effect from September 30 last month.