A case has been filed against 121people , including Mohanpur Union Parishad chairman Kazi Mizanur Rahman, following vandalism, looting and arson at Awami League leader and ex-minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya’s Chandpur house.   Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (Matlab Circle) Khairul Kabir said Shipon Khalasi, son of Makhan Khalasi of Mohanpur, filed the case with Matlab Uttar Police Station on Monday and police have arrested six accused so far. Ex-minister Maya’s Chandpur house set on fire The arrestees are Arju Sarkar,40, son of Abul Sakar of Mohanpur; Jewel Pradhan, 37, son of Salamat Pradhan; Nabir Hossain, 25, son of Md Kamal; Sifat, 25, son of Kazi Salauddin, Alamgir Sarkar, 37, son of Arif Ullah and Jiban Sarkar, 28.   Earlier, on Saturday, the house of Maya Chowdhury at Mohanpur in Matlab Uttar Upazila was vandalised, looted and set on fire by some miscreants. Army personnel and police of Matlab Uttar Police Station and local fire service reached the spot and brought the situation under control.   According to police, the miscreants took away the furniture before setting fire and looted historical commemorative pictures and monuments. Matlab Uttar Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Rabiul Haque said that the arrested accused were sent to Chandpur court and efforts are on to arrest the remaining accused.  

Seasoned visual artist Syed Muhammad Zakir’s second solo exhibition titled ‘Maya’ will begin at Bengal Shilpalay in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi on July 22, Saturday. Dhaka University Faculty of Fine Arts’ Prof Lala Rukh Selim, artist and art writer Mustafa Zaman, and artist Mahbubur Rahman will join the inauguration ceremony and speak on the occasion. A visual artist from Dhaka, Syed Muhammad Zakir mostly works in public spaces where he interacts with people and the environment. Zakir explores the lives and ponders deeper issues about the cosmos through performance, installation, land and wall art. AFD to host Sourav Chowdhury's 5th solo exhibition 'Eternal Existence'  As a trans-disciplinary artist, Zakir aims to engage his audience while using movements and spontaneous actions. He enjoys working with a variety of materials, forms, textures, and items that are frequently seen and easily accessible. His drawings, which frequently feature bright and metallic colours, feature strong lines and bold expressions, often considered satirical, scathing, and even humorous. Sarkar Nahid Niazi's solo art exhibition 'Manyfestation opens at AFD Now in his second solo exhibition ‘Maya’, Zakir recreates a city – the imagined city of ‘Baghreb’. Time, for him, is not a linear entity, but an aspect of the space-time continuum; and in the exhibition, Zakir draws on the lives of the unnoticed millions wrestling with the city, and the loss and decimation of nature that they face every day. As per his choice of materials for work, he manipulates and transforms a broken bough, discarded plastic bottles, a tree trunk, an overflowing plastic bag, a tottering cart, layers of styrofoam packaging, and many more ordinary objects, mundane belongings, and materials, that hint at a dangerously teetering environment. Curtain rises on 25th National Art Exhibition at BSA “The unlikely juxtaposition of everyday objects, their artistic manipulations and their improbable dialogues inside an unfamiliar space, all work towards building a new, and perhaps startling, consciousness – a realisation of the urgency to return to nature, before we exhaust ourselves completely,” Bengal Foundation describes the motifs and vision behind the exhibition on its website. Born in 1975 in Rangpur, Syed Muhammad Zakir started his art practice when he enrolled in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Dhaka, in 1994. There, he trained as a sculptor and moved forward towards his first collaborative performance show which was held in 1996. After that, Zakir performed in many solo and collaborative performance art shows. He continues to make drawings. ‘Maya’ will remain open from 4 pm to 8 pm, every day from Monday to Saturday till September 2 at level-4 of the Bengal Shilpalay.

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) and Maya have signed an agreement on Tuesday to provide free services as part of efforts to help prevent and limit the spread of COVID-19 among readymade garment workers.