Students stage protests demanding ordinance for Dhaka Central University

Students have gathered on the road adjacent to Sikkha Bhaban and staged a sit-in demonstration demanding a final ordinance to combine seven government colleges previously affiliated with Dhaka University into the proposed Dhaka Central University. They said they would not leave the road until the ordinance was issued. Meanwhile, police set up barricades on the road to the Secretariat ahead of the protest, halting traffic on the route. Dhaka College student Abir Mahmud Robin told bdnews24.com, "We will not leave the road until it is clear when the ordinance will be issued." In the morning, students from the seven colleges marched towards the Sikkha Bhaban from their respective campuses. At 11:20am on Monday, more than a hundred students of Shaheed...