<i>Bekar Hostel in Kolkata installs Bangabandhu's sculpture today</i>
The historic Bekar Hostel in Kolkata, capital of Indian state of West Bengal, installs today a bust of one of its most prominent occupants, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, alongside turning two of its rooms into a memorial museum.
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni left for Kolkata yesterday on a 24-hour visit to join the ceremony at Bekar Hostel, a dormitory for Muslim students of Calcutta University, at Smith Lane in Wellesley Square, Kolkata.
The authorities of the state-run Baker Hostel decided to install the statue on its premises alongside making its two rooms a museum to pay their homage to Bangabandhu who resided there in pre-partition period during the British rule when he was a student of Islamia College (now Maulana Azad College), according to the foreign ministry officials.
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