, Aug. 9 -- Dhaka University students staged demonstrations on Saturday midnight demanding ban on politics in dormitories.

Students from various halls took to the streets around 12.30am chanting various slogans like 1-2-3-4, hall politics no more, freedom or slavery, freedom-freedom.

The protests began as Chhatra Dal announced committees in 18 halls of the university on Friday morning.

Mohsin Hall student Nazmul Hasan Lanzu said, "Today July has returned to DU again. The promise of July is to keep the halls free from politics. But now both covert and overt politics are going on in the halls. We want to see the halls free from student politics without delay. To those who want to bring student politics back into the halls, we want to say...