Dhaka University students will have to leave their dormitories within 15 days of completing their Master’s degree examinations, the university authorities announced on Wednesday night.

Education Minister Dipu Moni yesterday lambasted the Buet teachers’ and alumni associations, who have been demanding the removal of Vice-Chancellor Prof Saiful Islam following the brutal murder of Abrar Fahad, for not raising their voice earlier.

A platform of teachers and students of Jahangirnagar University yesterday expressed frustration over what it said was the authorities’ indifference to allegations of corruption against Vice-chancellor Prof Farzana Islam and JU BCL unit.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced to death Obaidul Khan, the lone accused in the class-VIII student Suraiya Akhter Risha murder case.

Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk yesterday won the 2018 Nobel Literature Prize, which was delayed over a sexual harassment scandal, while Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke took the 2019 award, the Swedish Academy said.

Whenever a gross violation of law occurs, such as Abrar’s killing, ruling party leaders sing in chorus “nobody is above the law” and that “law will take its own course.” The truth is there are people above the law in this country, and the law takes its due course only when there is a “green light”.

The protesting Buet students yesterday said the VC has until 2:00pm today to make his stance clear about their demands, or else they would lock down all buildings on campus.

Buet Vice-chancellor Prof Saiful Islam faced heavy protest from locals when he went to visit Abrar Fahad’s village home in Kushtia yesterday evening.

Five to six Chhatra League leaders and activists mainly led the torture of Abrar.

The United Nations (UN) has expressed grave concern over the pattern of campus violence in Bangladesh that affected and claimed too many lives over the years, with apparent impunity for those bearing responsibility.

Call for punishing Buet student Abrar Fahad’s killers is getting louder as the alumni of the university and more teachers joined the student agitation, sparked by the brutal murder, yesterday.

Buet authorities knew that Chhatra League activists were bullying, verbally abusing and physically torturing students but they rarely took action against the perpetrators.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said directives would be given to conduct searches at all educational institutions and dormitories to arrest goons to stop the recurrence of incidents like the murder of Buet student Abrar Farhad.

Just before the start of their two-day weekend from Thursday, Buet students are supposed to get a breather from classes and exams on Wednesday evenings.

Delays in investigations and no punishment of perpetrators of gruesome campus murders have fostered a culture of impunity at public universities.

Former Jubo League Dhaka South president Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat, an alleged kingpin of illegal casino business in the city, was admitted to the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) yesterday as he “felt sick”.

The five-day Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bangalee Hindu community, ended yesterday with the immersion of idols of the Goddess Durga.

This was not the first time Abrar Fahad was called to room 2011 of Buet’s Sher-e-Bangla Hall.

The small Roydanga Eidgah and the adjacent graveyard ground in Kushtia’s Raidanga village could hardly hold the influx of people who turned up for the funeral of Abrar Fahad yesterday.

The gruesome murder of Buet student Abrar Fahad has touched off widespread outrage with students of different public universities taking to the streets demanding punishment to the killers.