Banned Awami League Presidium Member and former minister and freedom fighter, Engineer Mosharraf Hossain has died. He breathed his last at around 10:15am on Wednesday (13 May) while undergoing treatment at Square Hospital in the capital. He was 83. According to family sources, he had been...
Veteran British journalist Sir Mark Tully, who is recognised for his authentic information on the atrocities during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, passed away at an Indian hospital on Sunday (25 January). He was 90. In 1971, when Pakistan’s military regime imposed a near-total...
Former Member of Parliament for Tangail-5 and former home minister Major General (retd) Mahmudul Hasan died of old age at his residence in the capital at 3pm Wednesday (31 December). He was 90. He is survived by a son, a daughter and a wide circle of relatives, colleagues and well-wishers....
Some lives run parallel to the nation’s own sense of time. Begum Khaleda Zia’s did. The lady was prime minister when I was born and prime minister again when I was old enough to notice the gravity of voices on television and the stillness of adults listening. Now, as I stand at the uneasy...
In death, Sharif Osman Bin Hadi has been transformed into a vessel of competing meanings. Hadi’s murder has echoed through chants and placards, through grief-stricken murmurs and incendiary rhetoric, through hurried headlines and untempered digital outrage. Yet beneath the clamour lies a more...
Former foreign, finance and relief minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali has died in Dhaka. He was 82. He passed away on Thursday evening (6 November) while undergoing treatment at BIRDEM Hospital, The information desk of the hospital said Mahmood Ali's body was kept in the hospital morgue around 8pm....
