National Professor Rafiqul Islam no more
BI Report || BusinessInsider
Published: 16:20, 30 November 2021
Update: 16:29, 30 November 2021
National Professor Rafiqul Islam. Photo: File
National Professor Rafiqul Islam passed away in Dhaka on Tuesday at the age of 87.
The Ekushey Padak-winning professor breathed his last at 2:30pm at Evercare Hospital in the capital, hospital’s duty manager Ashrafur Karim told the Business Insider Bangladesh.
He was suffering from various old age complications.
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have expressed deep shock at his death.
Prof Rafiqul Islam, who was inducted as national professor in 2018, got Nazrul Academy Award, Bangla Academy Literary Award (1984), Ekushey Padak (2001), Independence Day Award (2012), and International Mother Language Award (2021).
