NFTE claimed communication with northern district was cut-off from 10:00am to 11:00am as vehicles could not move at Alenga in Tangail. Launches did not depart from the Barisal launch terminal before 11:00am yesterday.

Four representatives of the government headed by Education Minister Osman Farruk sat for dialogues at the Prime Minister's Office yesterday with leaders of NFTE, a platform of eleven teachers and employees organisations.

The government has started dialogues with agitating teachers' organisations since Sunday. Dialogues with the leaders of Shikkhak Karmachari Oikya Jote (SKOJ), led by Shariful Islam, Bangladesh Shikkhak Karmachari Samannay Parishad, led by Ashraful Islam, and Bangladesh Shikkhak Karmachari Oikya Parishad, led by MA Awal Siddiquee, have already been completed without achieving a permanent solution to the problems.

Minister for Education Osman Farruk said he has arranged dialogues with all groups of teachers separately as demands of all platforms of the striking teachers are not the same.

He will submit a recommendation report to the prime minister after having discussions with all the factions of teachers on strike.

Along with the continuous indefinite strike at the non-government high schools, colleges and madrasas since July 6, teachers and employees of the educational institutes under four platforms have already been staging demonstration in the streets demanding cent percent basic salary from the government exchequer.

Expressing solidarity with the striking teachers, Shikkha Andolan Mancha will hold a rally at the Muktangon in the capital today at 4:00pm where academicians will be present. A procession will be brought out following the rally.

However, Shikkhak Karmachari Oikya Jote, led by Shariful Islam, will hold a grand sit-in at Central Shaheed Minar and another faction of the Jote, led by Selim Bhuiyan, will hold a grand rally at the same place on August 6 protesting the government's delay in meeting their demands in the name of dialogues.

Meanwhile, community primary teachers under the banner of Bangladesh Community Primary Teachers' Association have started an indefinite strike keeping the schools closed from yesterday.

Leaders of the association said they would go for hunger strike until death at the Central Shaheed Minar from August 6 in support of their demand for job nationalisation.