City Desk :
The Dhaka University celebrated 102nd birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and National Children’s Day-2022 in a befitting manner.
The university observed the day with a series of programmes including laying of wreaths, cutting cake, cultural functions, children’s painting competition and offering special prayers.
DU VC Prof Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman inaugurated the festivity through cutting a cake in the early hours of Thursday on the university’s Jatir Janak Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall premises.
Teachers, students and officials of the university, led by DU Treasurer Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed, placed floral wreaths at the portrait of the great leader at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in Dhanmondi in the early hours of the day.
Besides, special prayers were offered at the university’s central mosque after Zohr prayers, seeking eternal peace of the departed soul of Bangabandhu.