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Dunnigan bill to increase penalties against bookmakers remains in Assembly Rules Com
Eastern Air Lines plane, near Vero Beach; 16 hurt
Asked by Dr C Dykstra to investigate union charge of discrimination at Internatl Harvester Co plant
Axis troops force Brit abandonment of Bengazi; Germans rept Axis troops captured Agedabia and reached Zuetina, Libva; London reaction to Bengazi capture
1941Zia Uddin, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician[†]
Mufakkir al-Islām Ḍiyā' ad-Dīn ibn Muqaddas ʿAlī, better known simply as Zia Uddin or reverentially as Nazim Saheb Huzur, is a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, politician and educationist. He is currently the president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh and Azad Dini Adarah-e-Talim, and an advisor to Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh. Uddin is also the director of Jamia Madania Angura-Muhammadpur and a member of Al-Haiatul Ulya Lil-Jamiatil Qawmia Bangladesh's permanent committee. He has played important roles in the 2013 Shapla Square protests and Khatme Nabuwwat movement, and has spoken out against the construction of the Tipaimukh Dam.