Veteran cultural figure and artist Mustafa Monwar died while undergoing treatment at Square Hospital in the capital on Monday (29 June) morning. He was 90. Mustafa Monwar had been admitted to the hospital on 14 June after being diagnosed with pneumonia. As his condition deteriorated, he was...
Awami League Advisory Council member and former Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed died on Monday (1 June) while undergoing treatment at a hospital in the capital. He was 82. He had long been suffering from various age-related health complications and breathed his last in the afternoon. Tofail Ahmed...
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...
