Liberation War of 1971

Would I be the kind of person to forget history?

Forgetting history and dismissing sacrifices seemed ingrained in Bangalee's nature.
26 March 2025, 06:00 AM

There is no such thing as a 'second independence': Mirza Abbas

BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas today dismissed the notion of a "second independence", asserting that such claims undermine the historic Liberation War of 1971
26 March 2025, 05:45 AM

The unfinished fight for people’s freedom

Bangladesh was supposed to be a country run by its people, but we are dangerously moving towards a country being run by a coterie.
26 March 2023, 03:00 AM

Trial of 4 Moulvibazar men ends, verdict waiting

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 concludes war trial proceedings against four Moulvibazar men and kept their verdict in waiting.
27 March 2018, 09:40 AM

Rayerbazar memorial

The Rayerbazar momorial is the site we go to pay our respects every year to intellectuals massacred on the eve of victory on December 14, 1971.
11 August 2015, 18:00 PM

SC verdict on SQ Chy appeal July 29

Supreme Court fixes July 29 to deliver its verdict on the appeal of SQ Chowdhury challenging the death penalty awarded to him for committing crimes against humanity in 1971.
7 July 2015, 07:17 AM

The trial is more important than the accused

Here we publish a letter written by Kamruddin Ahmad to the Law Minister on November 21, 1972. Kamruddin Ahmad was a Language Movement hero, politician, lawyer and diplomat.
30 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Liberation War based play staged in Jamalpur

A Liberation War- based play, “Eikhane Shobkhane”, directed by Fahim Maleque Evan and written by Shahin Rahman was staged on March 25 and 26 at District Shilpakala Academy and Government Ashek Mahmud College auditorium in the district town.
29 March 2015, 18:00 PM

“I Don't Like Twirling the Baton of Politics”

BEFORE we knew it, it was the year 1970. There were political movements all around. The confrontations of the students and the public of East Bengal had reached their peak.
29 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh's Liberation War -- Documents and History

Here we publish an excerpt from Hasan Hafizur Rahman's introduction to History of Bangladesh War of Independence: Documents, the largest collection of the Liberation War documents.
27 March 2015, 18:00 PM

A journey through light and shadow

BANGLADESH'S War of Independence in 1971 was the culmination of a prolonged movement for emancipation from economic, political and cultural subjugation by West Pakistan.
22 March 2015, 18:00 PM

The independence movement of Bangladesh

DURING the latter half of the last [ 19th] century, when the poet Nabinchandra Sen was a student of Presidency College, the boys from West Bengal used to poke fun at him by calling him a 'Bangal.'
22 March 2015, 18:00 PM