Dhaka, Jan. 17 -- Arko Saha of soil, water and environment department and Apurba Chakrabarty of theatre and performance studies department were admitted to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Friday afternoon.

Many more have fallen sick, but they have not agreed to go to hospital, Jagannath Hall Students' Union Vice-President Utpal Biswas, a key organiser of the protests, said.

"We have staged a nonviolent movement. Students from all religions have expressed solidarity with us," he said.

Kajol Das, the general secretary of the hall union, was put on saline drips.

"I won't go to hospital until the communal (tribalist) decision is changed," he said.

The demonstrators started the strike at the altar of Raju Memorial Sculpture on the c...