Dhaka, April 20 -- Students from polytechnic institutes across Bangladesh, under the banner of Karigari Chhatra Andolan (Technical Students' Movement, Bangladesh), staged simultaneous rallies on Sunday to press a six-point list of demands.

In Dhaka, the demonstration began around noon near Agargaon, drawing students from various institutions.

Among their key demands is the withdrawal of a High Court verdict that promotes junior instructors to the position of craft instructors-an order the protesters have strongly opposed.

Md Mashfiq Islam Dewan, a Dhaka Polytechnic Institute student and representative of the movement, addressed the crowd passionately. "To every diploma engineer and technical student-remember the movement of '87, the mo...