Dhaka, Feb. 27 -- The private university committee of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement has suspended the protest scheduled at different private universities and decided to hold a joint press conference with the Bangladesh Gonotantrik Chhatra Sangsad or Bangladesh Democratic Students Union on Thursday evening.

The committee's Convenor MJH Monju confirmed the decision to bdnews24.com saying: "We have postponed 'our' programme for today. We made the decision at 8am. The next programme is a press conference with the new student group at 4pm."

On Wednesday, the two sides clashed at Dhaka University's Madhu's Canteen over the emergence of the newly formed student organisation "Bangladesh Gonotantrik Chhatra Sangsad", which came out of...