Jagannath University, March 12 -- The common students of Jagannath University staged a mass Iftar program in protest against the university authorities' ban on Iftar parties at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology and Noakhali University of Science and Technology.

On Tuesday (March 12), the first day of Ramadan, the students organized Iftar at the central Shaheed Minar premises of the university.

Shihab Hossain, a student of economics department, said, "Two university administrations of the country have banned Iftar parties in their campuses. They are trying to eliminate Islamic cultures from the country. We protested against him and common students united and had Iftar. We will tell the administrations of those two universiti...