Freedom fighter Abu Musa Chowdhury passed away at his village home in Haidchakia village of Chattogram’s Fatikchhari upazila around 2:30am yesterday.

“All these years, the love that I have received from fans and fellow artistes is unparalleled. I feel proud and emotional when my co-actors call me Maa,” Sharmili Ahmed had said in her last interview with The Daily Star in May.

Veteran director Padma Shri Tarun Majumdar, known for making popular films based on finely-woven tales of human relationships in the lives of rural and urban middle-class families, passed away in a hospital in South Kolkata yesterday.

Today is the 27th death anniversary of Justice Muhammad Ansar Ali.

Today is the first death anniversary of noted lyricist Fazal-e-Khuda, best known for the legendary song, “Salam Salam Hajar Salam”.

Former chair-person of the UN Com-mittee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), economist and women’s rights activist Salma Khan passed away at the age of 80.

Today is the second death anniversary of Latifur Rahman, founder chairman and CEO of Transcom Group, a well-known and highly respected business house in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Awami Swechchhasebak League president Nirmal Ranjan Guha passed away yesterday morning while undergoing treatment at Mount Elizabeth hospital in Singapore.

Today is the eighth anniversary of poet Abul Hussain.

Dr Momtaz Begum, vice chairman of Premier Group and Sheikh Hasina University of Science and Technology Board of Trustees, breathed her last at a Singapore hospital yesterday.

Today is the 11th death anniversary of Shafiur Rahman, a pioneer of the movement for promotion of classical music in the country, said a press release.

Golam Faruque, senior member of Dhaka Theatre and proprietor of Adbest International, breathed his last at Birdem Hospital on Friday.

Former secretary, diplomat, and freedom fighter Mohiuddin Ahmed passed away yesterday at his Uttara home in Dhaka after a prolonged illness.

Today is the 111th birthday of Sufia Kamal, a renowned poet, social reformer and pioneer of women’s rights movement in Bangladesh.

Dr Md Anwar Ul Islam, a retired professor of the Pharmacy Department of Rajshahi University (RU), passed away yesterday (June 17, 2022).

Mohammad Mohiuddin Molla, a retired government official, passed away yesterday at the age of 70.

Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) celebrated its 30th founding anniversary yesterday with festivity and several programmes.

Monowar Ahmed, former secretary to Economic Relations Department, Ministry of Finance, died on Thursday night at the age of 61, said a press release.

BNP is observing the 41st death anniversary of its founder and former president Ziaur Rahman today.

Syed Nurul Alam, a renowned NGO worker and former executive director of SAP-Bangladesh, passed away on May 23.