Dhaka, April 16 -- After staging a daylong road blockades in parts of the country, students of public and private polytechnic institutes announced a countrywide rail blockade for Thursday as part of their ongoing movement to press six points demands.

The announcement came in the evening from Zubayer Patwary, a representative of the Technical Students' Movement, at Tejgaon's Satrasta point.

He said that although the road blockade programme has been withdrawn for the day, the movement is far from over. "We are now preparing to block the railway communication network across the country as part of our next course of action," he said.

According to Zubayer, a meeting was held earlier with the Director General of the Directorate of Technical ...