Nine named as Ekushey Award winners for 2008
Monday, 11 February 2008
The government has decided to honour nine people with the national Ekushey Award this year, six of them to be honoured posthumously. Professor Muzaffer Ahmad, chairman of Transparency International Bangladesh board of trustees, noted social scientist Najma Chowdhury and music director Khandaker Nurul Alam are among those who will receive this year's award. The six who are to be awarded posthumously are Dr Zohra Begum Kazi, the first woman in South Asia to gain a MBBS degree, journalist and music legend Wahidul Huq, Moulvibazar poet Dilwar Hossain Khan, Mymensingh Language Movement veteran Khaleque Newaj, and popular Chittagong folk singers Shyamsundar Baishnaba and Shefali Ghosh. -- bdnews24.com