Veteran educator Dilara Hafiz, the wife of Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, died while undergoing treatment in Singapore yesterday.

His namaz-e-janaza and burial will be held tomorrow in Dhaka

National Award-winning actor Shams Suman died on last evening while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in the capital. He was 50.

Mediator between intellectual life and national memory, Germany’s leading postwar philosopher helped shape public debate

Today marks the first death anniversary of business titan Syed Manzur Elahi.

Former DU journalism department chairman and CAB founding president leaves behind a long academic and civic legacy

Huron Nahar Rashid, wife of Monno Group's founder chairman, dies after prolonged illness

Eminent Bangla author Mani Sankar Mukhopadhyay, better known by his pen name “Sankar”, died at a private hospital in Kolkata yesterday. He was 92.

He was also former managing editor of The Daily Star

Ali Mahmud, city editor of the daily Dinkal, died of a heart attack on Monday. He was 69.

The sixth death anniversary of Mohammad Badrul Ahsan, a longtime weekly columnist for The Daily Star and the publisher and editor of the now-defunct weekly magazine, First News, was observed yesterday, said a press release.

Today is the 17th death anniversary of Md Shahidul Islam Pannu, director of Sara Advertising Ltd, said a press release.

Veteran BBC journalist Sir Mark Tully, who chronicled the Liberation War from close quarters, passes away

M Hafizuddin Khan, a former adviser to the caretaker government and ex-comptroller and auditor general (CAG) of Bangladesh, passed away yesterday at a private hospital in the capital’s Uttara due to age-related complications. He was 87.

Death was due to old-age complications

Mohammed Mohsin, a former ambassador, foreign secretary and assistant secretary-general of the OIC, passed away yesterday, said a press release.

Renowned film actress and former Miss Calcutta Jayasree Kabir passed away at a nursing home in Romford, Essex, in Greater London, on January 12.

Today is the first death anniversary of Md Velayet Hossain, former deputy executive president of Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC, said a press release.

She was an internationally respected community leader and administrator

Ekushey Padak-winning esteemed rhymester Sukumar Barua is no more. He died at 6:55am yesterday at a hospital in Chattogram. He was 87.