Dr. Syed Naquib Muslim

While highlighting the significance of music in human life, Martin Luther, the German theologian and leader of the Protestant Reformation, once said: “Music can make the sad merry, the merry sad… Make the proud humble…”

Dr Saadat Husain, a career civil servant of Bangladesh, passed away on April 22 at United Hospital after suffering from meningitis and renal complications.

Dr Md Rafiqul Islam, a senior member of BCS (customs) cadre, and a former member, National Board of Revenue, who topped the list of successful BCS examinees (1981 batch), passed away this February 8 due to a cardiac arrest. He was 65.

Uring the initial years of a newly emerged independent nation, Bangladesh badly needed a pool of professionally trained and qualified managerial workforce to run the new government and the private sector entities. It was almost impossible for the