Liberation war affairs adviser Faruk-e-Azam has said that the Mujibnagar government is an internationally recognised and constitutional government as it has organised the country鈥檚 liberation war and helped establish relations with international communities.聽..
Today is the 86th birthday of Rebeka Mohiuddin, one of the organisers of the Liberation War and a founder of Mahila Parishad...
The Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi on Monday condemned Sunday鈥檚 demolition of a part of a liberation war mural in Lalmonirhat...
Dhaka district鈥檚 civil surgeon, Mohammad Zillur Rahman, faced strong criticism from valiant freedom fighters on Wednesday after comparing the July 2024 uprising to the 1971 Liberation War...
Political leaders say that the July uprising has paved the way for a discrimination-free society and democratic governance in line with the aspirations of the liberation war which have remained unfulfilled even 54 years after independence.
NINETEEN seventy-one arrived, not as a year, but as a violation, a savage tear in the thin skin of what we dared call life. I was a child, a splinter of a being, four years old, yet the tremors of that brutal rending still reverberate in the hollow spaces of my bones. They call it the Liberation War, a tidy phrase for a messy, monstrous thing. It was the air we choked on, thick with...
A fire broke out at the generator room of the Liberation War Museum in the capital on Monday morning...
The liberation war affairs ministry has published a gazette notification recognising 1,401 individuals injured in the July mass uprising as 鈥楯uly Warriors鈥�.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to reopen the appeal of Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam, who was sentenced to death for war crimes committed during the 1971 Liberation War...
ON THIS day in 1969, Professor Dr Syed Mohammad Shamsuzzoha of Rajshahi University was shot and killed by the Pakistani military. Despite extensive discourse on the liberation war and Bangladesh鈥檚 post-independence political landscape, the 1969 mass uprising remains relatively underexplored. Professor Zoha was the first martyr of that movement, his sacrifice...
A student who was injured in a counter attack by local people allegedly over attacking on the ousted Awami League government鈥檚 liberation war affairs minister AKM Mozammel Haque on February 7 night, died while undergoing treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital Wednesday afternoon...
HASINA鈥橲 return to power in 2008 was not just the return of a leader; it was the return of something darker, more insidious. As the caretaker government retreated quietly, she swiftly reasserted control over every arm of the state, her will bending institutions like pliable clay. The dream of democracy, nurtured with such care in the days following the...
BANGLADESH, a nation forged in the crucible of its 1971 liberation war, now sees its legacy of sacrifice and identity increasingly distorted into a tool for political spectacle. Over the last 16 years, the Awami League government under Sheikh Hasina has leaned heavily on emotional rhetoric and symbolic gestures to cement their authority. This reliance on...
The first ever Bangladeshi all-women team that had recently made an expedition to Himalayan peaks was honoured at Liberation War Museum on January 23....
The historic 鈥楳ass Uprising Day鈥�, commemorating the 1969鈥檚 movement for autonomy from the then East Pakistan that eventually led to the Liberation War and the emergence of Bangladesh in 1971, will be observed on Friday in a befitting manner...
THE Trump presidency has significantly shaped the trajectory of US-Bangladesh relations, departing from traditional diplomacy and ushering in a transactional foreign policy approach. Under Trump鈥檚 leadership, US foreign policy pivoted away from multilateral engagements, focusing instead on bilateral dealings driven by immediate strategic interests...
The ministry of liberation war affairs on Thursday published a gazette of 834 martyrs of the July-August mass uprising...
A new directorate dedicated to the July Uprising will be set up next month under the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs, said Information and Broadcasting Adviser Mohammad Nahid Islam.
The Bangladesh interim government on Wednesday refuted attempts to distort the history of 1971 War of Independence, referencing a book written by the late J N Dixit, a former Indian foreign secretary, diplomat, and national security adviser....
Eminent writer and researcher Badruddin Umar claimed that true history of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War had not been written and what had been written was the official narrative and 80-90 per cent of those were fabricated.
AN IMPORTANT factor in the liberation war of 1971 was the sharp economic disparity between the then West Pakistan and East Pakistan. The proclamation of the liberation war, therefore, spoke about the desire to establish equality, human dignity and social justice. The country gained independence through the liberation war, but even after 53 years of...
THE liberation war stands as a monumental chapter in Bangladesh鈥檚 history, reflecting not only the profound sacrifices and resilience of its people but also the complex interplay of cultural, political and global dynamics that shaped the nation鈥檚 identity. Revisiting this epochal event offers an opportunity to celebrate its triumph, reassess its lessons and realign...
VICTORY DAY is etched in the heart of every Bangladeshi as a symbol of triumph over oppression, injustice and exploitation. It commemorates the hard-fought victory of 1971 when the people of this land, united in their resolve, broke free from the shackles of Pakistan鈥檚 exploitative rule. The liberation war was a fight not only for independence but also...
THE call for constitutional change in Bangladesh has intensified, not merely for refinement but as a profound demand for democratic renewal. Reforming the 1972 constitution within its current framework overlooks a critical reality: the document is itself embedded with principles that have enabled authoritarianism rather than safeguarded against it...
Martyred Intellectuals Day comes every year with a demand, as media report around that time, for a comprehensive list of the intellectuals that the nation had lost in the fag end of the liberation war at the hands of the Pakistani occupation forces and their local auxiliary squads, including Razakar, Al Badr and Al Shams, that abducted members of the...
Today is the 53rd martyrdom anniversary of the Liberation War鈥檚 hero Birshreshtha captain Mohiuddin Jahangir.
THE government鈥檚 announcement for the people who did not take part in the liberation war but have managed to get certificates as 1971 veterans to return their credentials on their own is a welcome step forward towards ensuring justice for the people who took part in the war and for citizens who have so far been led to believe that a number of such people...
Bangladesh interim government Liberation War Affairs adviser Farooq-e-Azam, Bir Pratik on Wednesday asked fake freedom fighters, who managed to get certificates as 1971 veterans to return the credentials voluntarily to evade punitive actions...
The two-day second climate justice assembly 2024, organised by Dhoritree Rokkhay Amara, began on Saturday at the Liberation War Museum Auditorium in Dhaka.
THE Shahbagh movement of 2013 and the recent July-August uprising stand as defining chapters in the evolving narrative of Bangladesh鈥檚 socio-political history. The two protests, distinct in origins and goals though, explain interwoven paths of public mobilisation, collective memory and the exercise of state power. The Shahbagh movement emerged from a nation鈥檚 quest for justice, its rallying cry demanding the...