Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on Wednesday declared Thursday as a holiday as a mark of respects to former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka.
All activities of the city corporations and their regional offices will remain closed on the day.
Khoka, a former mayor and BNP vice-chairman, died at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York on Monday at the age of 67.
His namaz-e-janaza will be held on the DSCC premises around 3pm on Thursday.