Tributes still pour in for Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq, who breathed his last at a London hospital around 4.23 pm (London time) Thursday. He was 65. President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed deep shock at the death of Huq. In separate messages, the president and the prime minister recalled Annisul Huq's contributions to the development of Dhaka North City Corporation area.

The mayor post of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) was declared vacant on Monday four days after its first mayor Annisul Huq passed away. "The mayor post of the DNCC was announced vacant on Sunday (December 3). The gazette notification will be issued on that date," Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Engineer Khandker Mosharraf Hossain told journalists at the Secretariat in Dhaka today, reports BSS.

Qulkhwani of late Mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Annisul Huq has been held in city’s Gulshan Azad Masjid after Asr prayers. Special doa and milad mahfil were held on Wednesday seeking eternal peace of the departed soul.

The body of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Annisul Huq likely to arrive at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Saturday. His body likely to arrive at the airport around 11 am by a flight of Bangladesh Biman Airlines. Then his body will be taken to his house in Dhaka.

The body of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Annisul Huq will be brought to Dhaka by a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight today. He will be buried at Banani graveyard in the capital following a namaz-e-janaza at Army Stadium after Asr prayers on Saturday.

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have mourned the death of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) first Mayor Annisul Huq. In a message of condolence tonight, he expressed profound shock at the death of Annisul, who won the City Election Poll on April 28 in 2015. "The nation has lost an eminent businessman, a successful industrialist and a politician in his death," the President said.

Awami League mayoral hopeful Atiqul Islam said he will complete the unfinished tasks of late mayor Annisul Huq if he is elected mayor in the Dhaka North City Corporation by-polls. He made the pledge while conducting a mass campaign in front of his office in Banani area of the capital on Thursday.