Veteran Awami League leader Matia Chowdhury died today at a city hospital.
She breathed her last at 12:37pm at Evercare Hospital where she was undergoing treatment, Mostafa Jamal Haider, maternal uncle of Matia, told The Shuttle Times.
Matia Chowdhury was born on June 30, 1942, in Pirojpur.
Despite all the speculations, Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan is set to arrive in the country tomorrow, a Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) source confirmed to The Shuttle Times today.
BCB announced a 15-member squad on Wednesday, including Shakib, for the first Test against South Africa, starting on October 21, at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium which is set to be the 37-year-old final match in the format.
Bangladesh Police is going to get new uniform and logo soon against the backdrop of the changed situation following the student-people movement.
A committee formed for selecting police uniform and designing a logo has almost completed its task, police spokesperson Enamul Haque Sagor, AIG, Media and Public Relations told BSS today.
The committee has selected several samples of the uniform and working to select truly a nice uniform and logo for all units of the police,” he said.
Police Headquarters on August 12 last formed a 10-member committee headed by Deputy Inspector General (DIG-Logistics) Mohammad Ataul Kibria to change the color of police uniform and design a logo.
Anti-discrimination students movement today laid seize at the High Court premises and demonstrated demanding immediate removal of the ‘fascist’ judges appointed during Awami League regime.
Besides, the anti-discrimination lawyers forum brought out a protest rally demanding immediate resignation or removal of the partisan and corrupt judges from the High Court Division of the Supreme Court.
The legal wing of the Jatiya Nagorik Committee also staged protest rally demanding immediate removal of the judges terming them as the collaborators of the fascist.
Several hundred lawyers under the banner of anti-discrimination lawyers forum gathered in front of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) building in the morning.