Dhaka, Nov. 4 -- Students of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU) have cleared a blockade of an Agargaon road and moved to the front of the Public Works Department.

They had taken to the road outside the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Center on Wednesday to protest the decision to relocate the Secretariat to the old trade fair ground.

The students blocked the Mirpur road around 12:15pm, halting traffic, and left about 30 minutes later, at 12:45pm. They shouted slogans and carried placards with their demands.

Monirul Islam, chief (acting) of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station, said the blockade was brief and traffic is back to normal now that the students have left.

Fazlul Haque, additional deputy commissioner (ADC) of D...