Neem Chandra Bhowmik: key obituary facts
Is Neem Chandra Bhowmik dead? Yes. Neem Chandra Bhowmik died on October 4, 2026.
Cause of death: Neem Chandra Bhowmik's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Neem Chandra Bhowmik known for?
He was a Bangladeshi Professor.
More about Neem Chandra Bhowmik
Gender: male.
Occupation: professor.
Neem Chandra Bhowmik, a Bangladeshi physicist and diplomat, died on October 4, 2026.
He was a professor in the Department of Applied Physics at the University of Dhaka and a prominent leader in Bangladesh’s Hindu minority community. Bhowmik also served as Bangladesh’s ambassador to Nepal, a posting that drew controversy during his term, and later became president of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council.
In 2007, while he was chairperson of the applied physics department at Dhaka University, he was arrested during student protests under the military-backed caretaker government; a court declared him innocent in March 2008. The following year, Bangladesh appointed him ambassador to Nepal, and in July 2010 he received the Mother Teresa Gold Medal.