Chehlum

Staff Correspondent

The chehlum of Dr Shakina Haque Begum Dalim, former chief researcher at Dartmouth Medical College in the USA, will be held today after Juma prayers at different mosques in the capital and at her village home in Comilla's Chandina, says a press release. She died of a cardiac arrest on her flight from Canada to Dhaka on December 13 last year.