Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Annisul Huq, who was admitted to a hospital in central London after falling ill, is still at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) but his condition is improving slowly. The sedative administered to Annisul is being reduced gradually, AKM Mizanur Rahman, assistant personal secretary of the mayor, told The Daily Star today.
Doctors in London tonight officially declared Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq dead, said assistant personal secretary of the mayor. The 65-year-old mayor was pronounced dead around 10:23pm (BST), AKM Mizanur Rahman, the assistant personal secretary of the mayor, told The Daily Star.
A number of online news portals had been running baseless and misleading reports about Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq, said the DNCC yesterday. Annisul's family members requested all to be aware that misleading information about the mayor was being circulated, said the DNCC in its first ever press release about the mayor's health.
Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq, who was admitted to a hospital in central London after falling ill, is still at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) but he is in a stable condition now. Annisul is stable now but he is still unconscious, AKM Mizanur Rahman, assistant personal secretary of the mayor, told The Daily Star.
Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq was buried at Banani graveyard in the capital this afternoon. He was laid to rest beside the graves of his mother and son around 5:30pm amid hundreds of followers shedding their tears. Earlier, people from all walks of life, including ministers, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and political leaders paid their last tributes to the mayor.
Annisul Huq and Sayeed Khokon took oath as mayors respectively of Dhaka North and South City Corporations on May 6 last year. They took over offices with serious pledges and commitments to bring about qualitative changes in delivering civic services.
Five years ago, late mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Annisul Huq turned the choked and almost unusable road into a functional one by removing an illegal truck stand, constructing wide pavements and planting trees on the median.
Annisul Huq, president of Saarc Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has urged China to promote bilateral trade and economic cooperation with South Asia. He was addressing the inaugural session of the fifth China-South Asia Business Forum at Kunming in China on Sunday.
The Bhutanese economic affairs minister said his country is keen to make a free trade agreement (FTA) with Bangladesh to boost economic relation between the two countries, Lynopo Khandu Wang-chuk said this while speaking at a meeting with the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the DCCI auditorium in the capital yesterday.
The country's apex trade body, FBCCI, urged the government yesterday to keep the revenue collection target at Tk 55,000 crore in the budget for fiscal year 2009-10 with an estimated growth rate at six percent.
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