PM mourns death of educationist Niloufer Manzur

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of renowned educationist and founding principal of Sunbeams School Niloufer Manzur, BSS reports.

In a condolence message on Tuesday (today), May 26, the prime minister prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed profound sympathy to the bereaved family.

Mrs Niloufer, wife of Syed Manzur Elahi, a noted businessman and former caretaker government adviser, passed away earlier today at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka at the age of 74.

The daughter of late Dr Mafiz Ali Chowdhury, a former minister in Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s cabinet in 1972, she founded Sunbeams School in January 1974.