In yet another instance of attempt to exercise influence, six activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League have allegedly kept a first year student of Dhaka University staring at bright light until he lost consciousness and fell ill.

Since this morning, SUST campus has been quiet following the end of the hunger strike that began on January 19 -- demanding the resignation of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology's Vice-Chancellor.

The protesting students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology last night withdrew their barricades from the university's main gate and the vice chancellor's residence at the request of former professors Muhammad Zafar Iqbal and Yasmeen Haque.

The process comes with plenty of inconveniences for the students.

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After 163 hours, 28 students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology ended their hunger strike yesterday at the request of former Sust professors Muhammed Zafar Iqbal and Yasmeen Haque.

Urging the protesting students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) to withdraw the ongoing movement, Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni today said resignation of the vice chancellor is not a solution.

A Sylhet court today granted bail to five former students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) who were detained from Dhaka on Monday for donating financial assistance to the demonstrators.

Dr Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, former professor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, today called the university’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Farid Uddin Ahmed “a monster.”

Expressing his frustration with the arrest of five former students for financially supporting the ongoing movement demanding the resignation of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Vice-Chancellor Prof Farid Uddin Ahmed, Dr Zafar Iqbal told reporters, "It's not a crime to support a student movement."

Twenty-eight Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) students ended their 'hunger strike until death' after 163 hours, at 10:20am today -- at the request of renowned writer and former SUST Professor Dr Muhammad Zafar Iqbal.

Renowned writer and academic Professor Muhammed Zafar Iqbal is on his way to Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST).

The Criminal Investigation Department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Monday detained five former students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology for donating money to demonstrating students on campus demanding the resignation of the vice-chancellor.

Students of different departments from the academic session of 2016-17 at Dhaka University, who are done with the final exams, are unable to apply for jobs due to delay in publishing results.

A case has been filed against five former students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Sylhet, who were picked up earlier by law enforcers.

Criminal Investigation Department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has handed over five former students of Sylhet University of Science and Technology, whom they picked up earlier, to Sylhet police.

School closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic have caused "nearly insurmountable" losses in education among children around the world, UNICEF said on Monday.

Students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) early today reconnected electricity to the VC's residence after over 30 hours.

The mobile banking numbers of the current and former SUST students used to receive financial assistance for the ongoing protest have stopped working since last afternoon, said students of the university.

Two former students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) were picked up allegedly by members of Criminal Investigation Department last night.