Sylhet, Oct. 8 -- Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) Vice-Chancellor Dr Md Khairul Islam has stepped in to help a first-year student who had been spending nights in a mosque or the university's TV room for the past three months after failing to secure a seat in a residential hall.

The Vice-Chancellor called Nishan Hossain, a student of the Department of Political Studies, to his office on Wednesday morning and took steps to arrange temporary accommodation and provide him with financial assistance.

Nishan, a first-year student from the 2025-26 academic session, had been struggling to find accommodation because he could not afford a room in a private mess.

Sources said the issue had been brought to the hall provost's a...