Five condemned killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ware hanged at Dhaka Central Jail amid tight security. The five killers Syed farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar, Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Mohiuddin Ahmed.The bodies of the five were sent to their village homes by five ambulances under police and Rab escort after conducting post mortem. It has taken over 34 years to ensures justices since August 15, 1975 heinous killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujbur Rahman. The Authorities had taken up a three-layer security measure for the execution-Copy Right-Monirul Alam
“Textbooks do not enlighten your mind; you can enlighten your mind by reading storybooks or poetry. Food is necessary for your life- But you cannot live without oxygen. Textbooks are your food and books of literature are your oxygen.”
-Prof. Abdullah Abu Sayeed
The people of the capital and nearby areas observed annular solar partial eclipse. The eclipse started at 10:05:24am and lasted till 4:07:36pm. The highest point of the eclipse was observed at 2:31:37pm at St Martin island. In Dhaka it was seen from 12:44:07pm to 4:58pm.The next total eclipse will be seen from Bangladesh 105 years later, in 2114 while the next annular solar eclipse in 2064.
Two workers clean their dyeing cloths on the Buriganga river at the same time BIWTA removeing the garbage from the river. Local resident of Aganagar Hamid said, nothing will change if we do not stop polluting in the river. Recently the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has begun removing thousands of tones of garbage from the Buriganga River. It was estimated that BIWTA will involve removal of 300,000 cubic meters of waste from the riverbed of the Buriganga, the main artery of the capital’s waterways. The estimated cost of the cleaning operation stands at around Tk 6 core which includes the cost of both cleaning and safe disposal of the rubbish.
MONIRUL ALAM 
