Dhaka, July 14 -- Student protests demanding the formation of an independent regulatory council have forced authorities to halt admissions to the Government Unani and Ayurvedic Medical College in Dhaka.
Monday was the closing day for admitting students into the 36th batch of the Bachelor of Unani Medicine and Surgery (BUMS) and Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) programmes.
Each course allows an annual intake of 25 students, totalling 50 for both.
But for the past 14 days, students of the institution have been staging protests, demanding the formation of a separate statutory council for their discipline.
Earlier, they held sit-ins outside the Directorate of Medical Education and the Directorate General of Health Servic...