BSS
  15 Dec 2022, 19:22

DU set to mark 52nd Victory Day

DHAKA, Dec 15, 2022 (BSS) - Dhaka University (DU) authorities have taken all-out preparation to celebrate the 52nd Victory Day tomorrow in a befitting manner.

The programmes included hoisting of national flag, placing wreaths at the National Memorial at Savar, film and documentary exhibition, photo exhibition and cultural programmes, said a press release.

The national flag will be hoisted atop on the main buildings of the university around 6.15am.

University teachers, students, officers and employees, led by DU Vice-Chancellor Prof Akhtaruzzaman, will gather on the premises of Memory eternal at 5.45 am. Later, they will go to National Memorial at Savar in the morning to pay tribute to Liberation War martyrs.

Like previous years, Slogan 71, a TSC-based cultural student organization, will hold a dazzling fireworks display-in front of the Anti-Terrorism Raju Memorial Sculpture-in the early hours of Victory Day. 

 Besides, a musical programme organised by the university authorities and Chhayanaut Cultural Center will be held at central playground of the university at 4pm. A cultural programme on Victory Day will be held at TSC at 6.30 pm.

The university campus has already been decorated with colorful lights including the arts building, TSC, Curzon Hall and Bijoy Ekattor Hall.

Special prayers will be offered after the Zohr prayers at the central mosque of the university along with other mosques and other places of worship, seeking eternal peace of the departed souls of the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for achieving independence.