Shawdesh Desk:

Ekushey Padak winning journalist and columnist Ranesh Maitra passed away at a city hospital early Monday. He was 90.

He breathed his last at Popular Hospital in the early hours on Monday.

Ranesh Maitra is survived by his wife Purabi Maitra, two sons, and three daughters.

Deputy speaker of Jatiya Sangsad Md Shamsul Haque Tuku expressed his condolences at the demise of Maitra.

Born on October 4 in 1933 at village Nahata of Rajshahi district, Maitra completed his IA in 1955 and BA in 1959 from Govt Edward College in Pabna.

He started his career as a journalist in the weekly newspaper Noubelal published from Sylhet in 1951.

He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2018 for his contribution to the field of journalism.