Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has emphasised regional cooperation and urged all to rise above differences to work for the welfare of the people on the twin occasions of 50 years of independence and Bangabandhu’s birth centenary. The independence hero, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, believed in regional cooperation and emphasised cooper...
Fifty years ago on 25 March 1971, all hopes for a political solution to the crisis in Pakistan lay in ruins. A day earlier, on 24 March, sensing the sinister intentions of the Yahya Khan junta, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had instructed his aides to propose to the regime that a wholesale transformation now needed to be brought into the con...
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay today said the historic March 7 speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman defended universal values, freedom, human rights and dignity. ” . . . it (March 7 speech) defended universal values, freedom, human rights, dignity, progress in education, culture and sciences,” she...
As Bangladesh celebrates 50 years of its independence, the nation, born in violence after the 1971 Liberation War in opposition to Pakistan, is quickly shifting forward on the path of development from its preliminary excessive poverty. Olivier Guillard for the Asialyst writes that at current, Dhaka ranks forward of Islamabad in phrases of devel...
The Communist Party of China (CPC) has conveyed its heartfelt congratulations and best wishes for the people of Bangladesh and the ruling Awami League on the occasion of the country’s 50 years of independence. The international department of the party’s central committee issued a press release in this regard on Tuesday. CPC remarke...