Monajatuddin | |
Native Name: | মোনাজাতউদ্দিন |
Birth Date: | 18 January 1945[1] |
Birth Place: | Keranipara, Rangpur town, Bengal Presidency, British India |
Death Place: | Padma River, Bangladesh |
Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
Occupation: | Journalist |
Alma Mater: | Rangpur Carmichael College |
Monajatuddin (18 January 1945 – 29 December 1995) was a Bangladeshi investigative journalist.[2] He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1997, by the Government of Bangladesh. In 1995, while investigating two boat capsizing events, he accidentally fell into the water from a ferry on the Padma River and died.
Monajatuddin was born in 1945, to Alimuddin and Motijannesa. He passed matriculation from Rangpur Kolashranjon School and Intermediate Examination from Rangpur Carmichael College.[2]
Monajatuddin started his career with the Bogra Bulletin in the 1960s. He then worked for a short while with Dainik Purbadesh and Dainik Azad. He then worked for almost 20 years as a regional correspondent in Dainik Sangbad.[3]