02 October 2004	Saturday	16 Shaban 1425

DHAKA, Oct 1: The Transparency International (TI) has conferred an award on a Bangladeshi journalist, Manik Saha, for "courageous reporting". The International Honesty Award will be given at a meeting in Kenya on Oct 8.

Mr Manik, a correspondent for the Dhaka-based New Age, was killed in a bomb attack on Jan 15 this year. Manik Chandra Saha frequently reported on crime and political corruption for the New Age newspaper and for the BBC Bengali Service and his determination to expose injustice made him enemies, says the TI release on Friday.

"He received numerous death threats and spent much of the year under police protection before he was killed in a bomb attack near his workplace in Khulna on Jan 15 this year which brought thousands of mourners out into the streets to condemn the killing," the release added. Born in a village of Jessore district in 1956, Manik Saha was killed while on way home from the Khulna Press Club.