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AL, allies to campaign for a ban on religion-based politics

Thu February 18, 2010 - 1:40am BdST

Ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance and its different associated organisations are planning to launch a massive campaign demanding a ban on religion-based politics in the country. Dhaka City unit 14-party will hold a series of meetings in all 15 constituencies in the capital soon to create public awareness, especially against the theocratic politics of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and allied student organisation Islami Chhatra Shibir. AL leaders will also soon start their own countrywide tours where they will formally demand banning of religion-based politics, said party insiders.

501 DU teachers demand ban on communal politics: DUTA condemns student killings

Mon February 15, 2010 - 2:23am BdST

Dhaka University Teachers' Association (DUTA) yesterday condemned and protested recent student killings in the educational institutions, including Rajshahi and Chittagong Universities. DUTA made this remark in its executive committee meeting held at Dhaka University Club yesterday morning. DUTA president Prof Dr Khandaker Bazlul Haque chaired the meeting which was conducted by its acting general secretary Prof Dr Abul Hasnat. The meeting also demanded punishment of those who were involved in the killings.

Suranjit wants Shibir politics to go

Thu February 11, 2010 - 2:20am BdST

Awami League lawmaker Suranjit Sengupta said yesterday that those who severed tendons of people and pursued politics with arms, their politics should be banned in the country.

Nizami says ban on religious parties not good decision

Tue February 9, 2010 - 1:10am BdST

Maulana Matiur Rahman Nizami, Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (BJI) at a huge public meeting held in Rajshahi on Sunday afternoon said that move to ban religion based parties would not be a good decision. The BJI chief was of the view that the treaty signed with India would bring no lasting benefit for the nation. Mutual benefits, and not servitude, should be the basis of friendship.

School ground used for fair defying ban

Wed January 27, 2010 - 12:03pm BdST

A trade fair has been arranged at the playground of a Moulvibazar school in violation to the recent education ministry ban on holding any commercial fair or show on school premises without the ministry's permission.

BDR wants night-time ban on movement in border

Thu January 21, 2010 - 10:11pm BdST

The Bangladesh Rifles has recommended imposing night-time restrictions on the movement of Bangladeshis within 150 yards of zero point inside the Bangladesh territory aimed at stopping the killing of innocent people in the border by India’s Border Security Force. The Bangladesh border force in a report sent to the home ministry in the first week of January has also recommended formation of committees with public representatives in bordering villages.

Labour law to ban child domestics: minister

Thu January 21, 2010 - 1:54pm BdST

Labour minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has said employment of domestic workers under 14 years of age will be made illegal, in an amendment of labour laws to cover rights of the long-ignored working population. "Fair pay and ensuring human rights for domestic workers will be included in an amendment of the labour act," the minister said after a meeting of the Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS) on Wednesday.

If atheists, leftists can do politics, why not Islamists, asks Moudud

Tue January 19, 2010 - 1:40am BdST

BNP Standing Committee Member Barrister Moudud Ahmed questioned the justification of banning the pro-Islamic politics in the country. "If atheists and leftists in Bangladesh can do politics in the country, why pro-Islamic people will not be allowed to do this?" he asked while addressing a roundtable in the city yesterday.

Govt warned of move to ban religion-based politics

Sun January 17, 2010 - 12:50am BdST

The leaders of "National Committee to Protect Islam and Religion Based Politics" yesterday warned the government of dire consequence if it tries to impose ban on religion based political parties. Addressing a rally at the Muktangon in the city, they accused the government of its attempt to erase Islamic values and culture from the country and restrict Madrasha education gradually.

All Islamic party confce tomorrow

Tue January 12, 2010 - 1:23am BdST

Movement of the Islamic political parties to protest the government decision to ban the parties based on religious ideology is becoming intense day by day. An all-party conference of the Islamic political parties will be held on Wednesday at 3 pm at the Muktangan in the city. Leaders of Islamic parties urged all patriotic people of the country irrespective of party and ideology to make the meeting a success.