The premier handed over the award to the eight recipients at the inaugural ceremony of Amar Ekushey Book Fair at the Bangla Academy premises ...

Annually, the Bangladesh Student Association gathers on International Mother Language Day to remember its cultural significance and to promote linguistic rights for all languages.

Bangladesh has paid deep respect and homage to the immortal martyrs of the Language Movement. On this day in 1952, February 21, young students took to the streets of Dhaka and shed their blood to ...

Thousands of people on Friday paid their tribute to the people who laid down their lives during the historic language movement at the Central Shaheed Minar in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka. Bangladesh ...

Clad in mourning black and holding flowers for tribute, rows and rows of barefoot people have converged at Dhaka’s Central Shaheed Minar to pay their respects to those martyrs who gave their lives for ...

On this very day on February 21, 1952, the streets of Dhaka became a battlefield, soaked with the blood of young martyrs, who stood resolute in the face of oppressive authority, demanding the right to ...

India’s 1971 war with Pakistan lasted from 3 December to 16 December. Before that, there was a crackdown on East Pakistan (by Pakistan) on 25 March 1971. (Most people will have read The Blood Telegram ...

Stirring video clips of protesters breaking out in song have been in circulation throughout the course of the demonstrations in Bangladesh, amid the mass bloodshed that continues even with Sheikh ...

Chowdhury’s contributions go beyond this iconic song and journalism. He was a distinguished storyteller with notable works, including the acclaimed short story collection “Samrat-er Chhobi” (The ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have paid rich tributes to the martyrs of the historic Language Movement marking the Amar Ekushey and the International Mother Language ...

Lyricist of Bangladesh's revolutionary language movement song, Gaffar Chowdhury, died in London on May 19, 2022 at the age of 88. He was also known as a strong voice of pro-liberation, pro-Bangabandhu ...