{"id":463,"date":"2013-10-27T11:27:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T11:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2013-10-27T11:27:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T11:27:14","slug":"journalist-gias-kamal-chowdhury-dies-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/journalist-gias-kamal-chowdhury-dies-at-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Gias Kamal Chowdhury dies at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Journalist-Gias.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-464\" alt=\"Journalist Gias\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Journalist-Gias.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a>Senior journalist Gias Kamal Chowdhury died in a Dhaka hospital on Saturday morning. He was 74.<br \/>\nChowdhury, a former President of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists and Dhaka Union of Journalists, had long been bed-ridden with ailing health.<br \/>\nThe veteran journalist passed away around 5.30am in the capital&#8217;s Anwer Khan Modern Hospital, Syed Abdal Ahmed, general secretary of the National Press Club informed bdnews24.com.<br \/>\nChowdhury started his career with the Dhaka Times in 1964 and later joined the Morning News. After independence, he joined the state-run news agency, BSS.<br \/>\nHe was Dhaka correspondent of Voice of America (VOA). He was also the Editor of the daily Khabarpatra.<br \/>\nThe former president of the National Press Club also worked at the Bangladesh High Commission in London.<br \/>\nChowdhury was conferred \u2018Ekushey Padak\u2019 in 1992 for his contribution to journalism.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/journalist-gias-kamal-chowdhury-dies-at-74\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior journalist Gias Kamal Chowdhury died in a Dhaka hospital on Saturday morning. He was 74. Chowdhury, a former President of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists and Dhaka Union of Journalists, had long been bed-ridden with ailing health. The veteran journalist passed away around 5.30am in the capital&#8217;s Anwer Khan Modern Hospital, Syed Abdal Ahmed, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,11],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}