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....
Rakib Hasan, the eminent Bangladeshi author who gave generations of young readers their favourite fictional sleuths through the Tin Goyenda series, passed away on Wednesday (15 October). He was 74 years old. Masuma Maimur, adviser to Sheba Prokashoni which published the fan favourite juvenile...
Renowned academic and writer Syed Manzoorul Islam, emeritus professor of English at the University of Dhaka, has passed away in Dhaka. He breathed his last at 5pm on Friday (10 October) while receiving treatment at LabAid Hospital in the capital, confirmed Chowdhury Meher-e-Khoda, Public Relations...
