A Bangladesh court sentenced four extremists to hang Wednesday for their fatal machete attack on a celebrated writer, in a case that took nearly two decades to reach a verdict.
If there is one thing that Humayun Azad embodied, it was the secular ethos of an independent nation. Hence his life and works could be summed up as a man’s struggle against religious extremism.
Ekushey Padak-winning poet Quazi Rosy, who played a significant role as a prosecution witness in the war crimes case against executed Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah, died at a city hospital yesterday.