Veteran journalist DP Barua no more

Nonagenarian journalist and former chief editor and managing director of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) Deba Priya Barua has died.

He breathed his last at 5.00 am on Wednesday at his Moghbazar residence.
He 90 years.

He was suffering from various old age complications for long.

A 1952 language movement veteran Barua made his debut in journalism in 1958 when he was recruited by now defunct The Morning News newspaper. He also had a brief background in PR profession as a pubic relation officer in the then State Bank of Pakistan.

He later joined BSS and eventually became the Chief Editor and Managing Director of the state owned news agency BSS in 1991. Ahead of his appointment as the BSS chief he served as its managing editor for years.

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