Barrister Mainul Hosein no more

Barrister Mainul Hosein, former adviser to a caretaker government, passed away on Saturday. He was 83.  

Hosein, also the publisher of the daily newspaper The New Nation, breathed his last at the Evercare Hospital Dhaka around 6 pm, according to family sources.

His first namaz-e-janaza will be held at Baridhara Jame Mosque at 10:30 am on Sunday. He will be buried at Azimpur graveyard following his second namaz-e-janaza at Supreme Court compound after Jumma prayer.

Barrister Mainul Hosein, born in January in 1940, served as the law, information, and land advisor to the military-backed Caretaker Government of Bangladesh from January 2007 to January 2008.

Hosein was born to the famous journalist and politician, Tofazzal Hossain Manik Miah.