Chattogram, March 17 -- The authorities of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) suspended 19 students, apparently leaders and activists of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), for different periods for their involvement in anti-disciplinary activities on the campus.

Of them, seven were suspended from academic activities for different periods and permanently barred from residential halls, with 12 others being suspended from only residential halls.

Twenty-one separate notices, signed by Md. Mahbubul Alam, member secretary of the university's disciplinary committee and director of the Student Welfare Office, were issued on Monday.

The decisions to take the actions were made at the 281st emergency meeting of th...