Academic activities at Barisal University have been hampered as the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) university unit padlock the academic building on the campus protesting an ongoing recruitment process without freedom fighters’ quota.

Government forms cabinet committee to review pay structure of public university teachers after months of protests. The teachers have been terming the latest pay structure "disgraceful and discriminatory".

A Barisal court has handed down death penalty to a man convicted of killing a first year Barisal University student back in 2013.