Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
Prominent personalities of the country demanded on Wednesday that the genocide carried out by the Pakistani army in Bangladesh in 1971 be declared a genocide, UNB reports. He was speaking at an event at East West University (EWU). Mofidul Haque, Trustee of the Liberation War Museum, Professor Imtiaz Ahmad, Director of the Center for Genocide […]
Senior prosecutor Sultan Mahmud Simon and prosecutor Tapos Kanti Baul presented the case for the prosecution, while advocate Gazi MH Tamim, as the state-appointed defense counsel, defended the fugitives. The first tribunal framed six charges of crimes against humanity on December 5, 2018, and began recording statements of witnesses on February 18, 2019. The court […]
The fact that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman resigned from the presidency and assumed the duties of Prime Minister under the ‘Provisional Constitution of Bangladesh Order’. The new President Abu Saeed Chowdhury administered the oath. It is written in the book that Justice Mohammad Saim administered the oath. On page 181 of the same book, it […]
Held at the National Parade Square in the city, contingents from the Bangladesh Army, Navy and Air Force as well as freedom fighters, para-military forces and law enforcement agencies participated in the parade. President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina attended the parade at the National Parade Ground on the occasion of Victory Day […]
Rahman Sobhan is an economist, an academic and the founder of the influential think tank Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD) of Bangladesh. Born in 1935, he took an active part in the movement for the independence of Bangladesh on behalf of Bangabandhu even before the liberation war. During the freedom struggle, he worked to mobilize […]
16 December. Our victory day Every year on this day we pay our respects to the memory of lakhs of unknown people whose incomparable sacrifices brought us victory in the 1971 Liberation War. Our freedom struggle was a people’s war. People from all walks of life, men and women, regardless of class or occupation, lost […]
The Genocide-Torture Museum, established in May 2014, is collecting mementos, photographs, books, publications and documents of the martyrs, besides collecting detailed information on the basis of the mass murder and the identity of the genocide. Chaudhary Shahid Kader, trustee secretary of the museum, said: “We are conducting searches across the country to gather information on […]
Hamid and Hasina greeted the people on the occasion. In a message, the President called for unity in the spirit of the liberation struggle. He said, ‘We have to institutionalize democracy to take the benefits of freedom gained by the sacrifice of lakhs of martyrs to the doorsteps of the people.’ “Political parties have to […]
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation on Thursday evening on the occasion of Vijay Diwas. A press release from the Prime Minister’s Press Wing said that the Prime Minister will deliver her speech today at 7.30 pm. His speech will be broadcast by Bangladesh Television, Bangladesh Betar as well as private TV channels […]
“A committee has been formed at the national level to prepare a list of martyred intellectuals. One list has already been prepared. Hundreds of new applications have been received. It is expected that the complete list of martyred intellectuals will be out within March 26, Independence Day. Will come.” the minister added. When asked about […]
On the night of December 14, 1971, over 200 intellectuals including academicians, journalists, litterateurs, physicians, scientists, lawyers, artists, philosophers and political thinkers were picked up by the Pakistani occupation forces in Dhaka with the help of their local collaborators. The intellectuals were taken to torture chambers in Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Nakhalpara, Rajarbagh and other places in […]
Bangladesh is paying homage to the nation’s best minds who were killed indiscriminately by the Pakistani Army and their local collaborators on 14 December 1971 in the final moments of the Liberation War. Realizing that they had lost the war, in a last ditch effort to exact revenge, the Pakistani occupation forces and their accomplices […]
According to the Inter Service Public Relations Directorate, Group Captain Shamsul breathed his last at 4:47 pm at Evercare Hospital in the capital. He was born in 1947 in Patuakhali district. In 1964, after completing his education in Dhaka, he joined the then Pakistan Air Force Academy at Risalpur in 1964 and was commissioned in […]
