The Making of a Nation,” which chronicles the life of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was screened at Nandan yesterday (June 7), a traditional cultural center in Kolkata. This film is a joint ...

Every December, my reading group chooses a book related to 1971. In 2015, for example, we read A. Qayyum Khan’s Bittersweet Victory: A Freedom Fighter’s Tale (2013) and a few years earlier we read ...

Bangladesh’s largest minority rights group accused the country’s interim government on Thursday of failing to protect ...

If the past indicates the future, there is considerable doubt about the stability of democracy in Bangladesh .

Interim government adviser Mahfuz Alam has stated that the Awami League will not be allowed to participate in the ...

THE assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in August 1975 did not merely topple a man — it sent a shockwave through the very soul of BAKSAL. Once the beacon of independence, the Awami League found ...

And, of course, the Six Points publicly announced by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in February 1966 in ... blow on its fraying reputation when the army killed Sergeant Zahurul Haq, one of the Agartala ...

A minority group in Bangladesh has accused Yunus-led interim government of failing to protect minority rights in the country. The group says that the interim government is using state institutions to ...

Dhaka: Bangladesh's first Army chief and sector commander of the 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan Maj Gen (retd.) K M ...

Bangladesh’s first Army chief and sector commander of the 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan Maj Gen (retd.) K M Shafiullah died on Sunday. He was 90. “He breathed his last while undergoing ...

In 1975, as army chief, Shafiullah was in command when a group of military officers assassinated then-president Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most members of his family. Following the ...

In the prayer, the sound health of Ziaur Rahman's wife and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia was also sought. Referring to the fallen fascist government led by Awami League, Alal said Sheikh ...