The man best known for penning the immortal song “Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano Ekushey February”, a popular columnist, litterateur and political analyst, Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury breathed his last yesterday at a hospital in London at the age of 87.
As school and college students poured onto the streets in a repeat act of the 2018 road safety protests after Wednesday’s accident, another city corporation garbage truck hit and killed a commuter yesterday.
As school and college students poured onto the streets in a repeat act of the 2018 road safety protests after Wednesday’s accident, another city corporation garbage truck hit and killed a commuter yesterday.
The relationship between government employees and journalists
Police escort journalist Rozina Islam to the Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court in Old Dhaka on May 18, 2021. Photo: Star
I felt distressed and embarrassed after coming across the news of senior journalist Rozina Islam s ordeal of harassment at the health ministry and her eventual arrest. From the very beginning of my stint in government offices, I have been meeting and greeting journalists on a continual basis. I have never seen such a hostile relationship among these parties before. How did it come down to this?
In 1979, at the very beginning of my career, I met some journalists for the first time, inside the Chattogram customs building. As per a court order, we raided the premises of some business organisations in Khatungonj for a case filed under the category of falsifying product announcement, arrested some people and seized some counterfeit seals and documents. Naturally, journalists crowded the place. We briefed t