Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of former Gano Parishad Member, former general secretary of Chattogram South unit of Awami League and valiant Freedom Fighter M Abu Saleh.  Read: PM mourns death of ex-MP Abbas Ali “The senior Awami League leader in his student life discharged his duties as the president of Chattogram district unit of Chhatra League and  he will be remembered and followed by the present and future generations,” she said.   The Prime Minister prayed for the eternal salvation of the departed soul and expressed sympathy to the bereaved family.

The body of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was returned to Tokyo on Saturday after he was fatally shot during a campaign speech in western Japan a day earlier. Abe was attacked in the city of Nara and airlifted to a local hospital but died of blood loss despite emergency treatment including massive blood transfusions. Police arrested the attacker, a former member of Japan's navy, at the scene on suspicion of murder. Police confiscated the homemade gun he used, and several others were later found at his apartment. The attacker, Tetsuya Yamagami, told investigators he plotted the shooting because he believed rumors that Abe was connected to an organization that he resents, according to police. Japanese media reported that the man had developed hatred toward a religious group his mother was devoted to. The reports did not specify the group. A black hearse carrying Abe's body and accompanied by his wife, Akie, arrived at his home in Tokyo's upscale residential area of Shibuya, where many mourners waited and lowered their heads as the vehicle passed. Abe’s assassination ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary election shocked the nation and raised questions over whether security for the former prime minister was adequate. Police on Saturday said autopsy results showed that a bullet that entered Abe's upper left arm damaged arteries beneath both collar bones, causing fatal massive bleeding. Some observers who watched videos of the assassination on social media and television noted a lack of attention in the open space behind Abe as he spoke. A former Kyoto prefectural police investigator, Fumikazu Higuchi, said the footage suggested security was sparse at the event and insufficient for a former prime minister. “It is necessary to investigate why security allowed Yamagami to freely move and go behind Mr. Abe,” Higuchi told a Nippon TV talk show. Experts also said Abe was more vulnerable standing on the ground level, instead of atop a campaign vehicle, which reportedly could not be arranged because his visit to Nara was hastily planned the day before. In videos circulating on social media, the attacker, identified as 41-year-old Yamagami, can be seen with the homemade gun hanging from his shoulder, standing only a few meters (yards) behind Abe across a busy street, and continuously glancing around. A few minutes after Abe stood at the podium and started his speech — as a local party candidate and their supporters stood and waved to the crowd — Yamagami can be seen firing the first shot, which issued a cloud of smoke, but the projectile apparently missed Abe. As Abe turned to see where the noise came from, a second shot went off. That shot apparently hit Abe's left arm, missing a bulletproof briefcase raised by a security guard who stood behind the former leader. Read: Bangladesh observing state mourning paying respect to Abe Abe fell to the ground, with his left arm tucked in as if to cover his chest. Campaign organizers shouted through loudspeakers asking for medical experts to provide first-aid to Abe, whose heart and breathing had stopped by the time he was airlifted to a hospital where he later pronounced dead. According to the Asahi newspaper, Yamagami was a contract worker at a warehouse in Kyoto where he was a forklift operator and known as a quiet person who did not mingle with his colleagues. A next-door neighbor at his apartment told Asahi he never met Yamagami, though he recalled hearing noises like a saw being used several times late at night over the past month. Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who early on had a frosty relationship with Abe, sent a condolence message to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday, a day after most other world leaders issued their statements. Xi credited Abe with making efforts to improve China-Japan relations and said he and Abe had reached an important understanding on building better ties, according to a statement posted on China's Foreign Ministry website. He also told Kishida he is willing to work with him to continue to develop neighborly and cooperative relations. Even though he was out of office, Abe was still highly influential in the governing Liberal Democratic Party and headed its largest faction, but his ultra-nationalist views made him a divisive figure to many. When he resigned as prime minister, Abe blamed a recurrence of the ulcerative colitis he’d had since he was a teenager. He said then it was difficult to leave many of his goals unfinished, especially his failure to resolve the issue of Japanese abducted years ago by North Korea, a territorial dispute with Russia, and a revision of Japan’s war-renouncing constitution. That ultra-nationalism riled the Koreas and China, and his push to create what he saw as a more normal defense posture angered many Japanese. Abe failed to achieve his cherished goal of formally rewriting the U.S.-drafted pacifist constitution because of poor public support. Also read: Japan's tight gun laws add to shock over Abe's assassination Loyalists said his legacy was a stronger U.S.-Japan relationship that was meant to bolster Japan’s defense capability. But Abe made enemies by forcing his defense goals and other contentious issues through parliament, despite strong public opposition. Abe was groomed to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather, former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi. His political rhetoric often focused on making Japan a “normal” and “beautiful” nation with a stronger military and bigger role in international affairs. Japan is particularly known for its strict gun laws. With a population of 125 million, it had only 10 gun-related criminal cases last year, resulting in one death and four injuries, according to police. Eight of those cases were gang-related. Tokyo had no gun incidents, injuries or deaths in the same year, although 61 guns were seized. Abe was proud of his work to strengthen Japan’s security alliance with the U.S. and shepherding the first visit by a serving U.S. president, Barack Obama, to the atom-bombed city of Hiroshima. He also helped Tokyo gain the right to host the 2020 Olympics by pledging that a disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant was “under control” when it was not. He became Japan’s youngest prime minister in 2006, at age 52, but his overly nationalistic first stint abruptly ended a year later, also because of his health. The end of Abe’s scandal-laden first stint as prime minister was the beginning of six years of annual leadership change, remembered as an era of “revolving door” politics that lacked stability. When he returned to office in 2012, Abe vowed to revitalize the nation and get its economy out of its deflationary doldrums with his “Abenomics” formula, which combines fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and structural reforms. He won six national elections and built a rock-solid grip on power, bolstering Japan’s defense role and capability and its security alliance with the U.S. He also stepped up patriotic education at schools and raised Japan’s international profile.

The High Commissioner for Bangladesh to the UK Saida Muna Tasneem has expressed her deep shock and sorrow at the death of former Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith. “I am profoundly shocked and deeply saddened by the passing away of Bangladesh's longest serving Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith," he said in a condolence message, adding that "Our nation has suffered an irreparable loss and our country, one of the greatest sons of her soil." Muhith, a veteran civil servant was amongst the first diplomats in the then Pakistan Embassy in Washington DC to pledge his allegiance to independent Bangladesh upon declaration of independence by the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1971.  "Throughout the War of Liberation of 1971, Muhith played a vital role in mobilizing global support for recognition of Independent Bangladesh," she said. Also read: Tearful adieu to AMA Muhith An awardee of the Swadhinata Puroskar, Muhith was an uncompromising proponent of Bengalee nationalism, and a torchbearer of secular and progressive pro-liberation values. "An astute Finance Minister of the country and a welfare economist at heart who placed a record number of national budgets at the Bangladesh Parliament, Muhith worked tirelessly under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in attaining Bangladesh's unprecedented growth and prosperity over the past decade," said the High Commissioner.  Born of an eminent Muslim family in Sylhet, Muhith was a devout patriot and a celebrated politician who dedicated his life to public service and the welfare of the people of Bangladesh.  A Harvard graduate and a man of letters and knowledge, Muhith’s numerous publications on governance continue to guide today’s public servants and academia alike, she said.   Also read: Muhith: A gifted economist who was a prolific writer! A leading patron of Bengalee art and culture and an enlightened spirit, Muhith’s legacy will continue to inspire generations to come, said the High Commissioner.  "I pray to the Almighty for the eternal salvation of the departed soul of late AMA Muhith and convey my deepest condolences to the members of his bereaved family and his loved ones. May ALLAH SWT grant him Jannatul Ferdaus. Ameen.”

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday expressed deep sorrow at the death of Bangladesh Awami League’s advisory council member and valiant freedom fighter Joynal Hazari. In a condolence message, she prayed for salvation of the departed souls of the former AL Feni district unit’s general secretary and ex-member of parliament. The Prime Minister expressed profound sympathy to bereaved family members. Joynal Hazari, 76, died at a city hospital on Monday afternoon. He breathed his last at around 5:20pm at Labaid Specialised Hospital admitted on December 15 with lung infections, cardiac and kidney problems.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot Captain Nowshad Ataul Quaiyum. She prayed for the eternal salvation of the departed soul and expressed sympathy to the bereaved family. READ: PM mourns former AL lawmaker Mizanul Haque's death The 44-year-old pilot fell sick in mid-air on August 27 and since then he had been undergoing treatment at a hospital in Nagpur, the western state of Maharashtra, where he breathed his last in the morning. Biman’s flight BG022 with 124 passengers made an emergency landing in the Indian city of Nagpur on the day after Captain Nowshad fell sick, while piloting the plane from Muscat to Dhaka. READ: PM mourns death of journalist Zahiduzzaman Faruk The pilot was later admitted to a local hospital.

The Editors' Council on Monday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of daily Janakantha Editor Atikullah Khan Masud. 

President Abdul Hamid on Monday expressed deep shock  and sorrow at the death of former foreign secretary and immediate-past High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali.

President Abdul Hamid expressed profound shock at the deaths in a fatal collision of two trains on Dhaka-Chattogram route in Brahmanbaria on early Tuesday.   The President, in a message, extended deep condolences to the families who have lost their loved ones in the accident and prayed for the eternal peace of the victims.   He also urged the local administration and public representatives to come forward and extend their helping hands to the victims of the fatal accident.   At least 15 passengers were killed and over 100 others injured in a collision of two trains at Mandbagh in Brahmanbaria early Tuesday.   The deadly collision between Dhaka-bound Turnanishita from Chattogram and Chattogram-bound Udayan Express from Sylhet took place around 3 am, said Deputy Commissioner of the district Hayatuddowla who visited the spot right after the crash.

Dhaka, Oct 14 (UNB) - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday mourned the passing away of Dil Monowara Monu, a senior journalist and former executive editor of fortnightly ‘Ananya’.

Dhaka, Jun 28 (UNB)- Prime Minister sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of New York City Awami League president and valiant freedom fighter Nur Nabi.