The Bangladesh interim government led by Mohammad Yunus has issued a new ordinance redefining the term "freedom fighter" (Bir Muktijoddha), a move that has led to the removal of the status from ...

In this interview with The Daily Star, acclaimed writer and researcher Mohiuddin Ahmad—author of Tajuddin Naame Ekjon Prodhanmontri Chhilen—offers a compelling reflection on the leadership, struggles, ...

The historic journey of the people of Eastern Bengal in the middle half of the last century, to be more precise from 1947 to 1971, was an amazing story with great impact on the post-colonial social ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Dhaka, June 4 (IANS) The Mohammad Yunus-led interim government of Bangladesh has enacted a new ordinance that alters the definition of "freedom fighter" (Bir Muktijoddha). This decision ...

The news published in several media outlets that the freedom fighter recognition of over 100 leaders, including President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Acting President Nazrul Islam and Prime Minister ...

The Daily Star (TDS): What inspired you to make the documentary Tajuddin Ahmad: An Unsung Hero? Tanvir Mokammel (TM): Tajuddin Ahmad was a rare Bangladeshi politician—incorruptible, highly educated, ...

I did not personally know Tajuddin Ahmad, but he was a contemporary of ours, and the politics he practised was within the Awami League—though there were different strands within the party. One faction ...

The period between 1945 and 1979 was one of Cold War and decolonisation. The Cold War entered a different trajectory with the rapprochement between China and the US and the Iranian Revolution. Those ...

New banknotes were released in Bangladesh with new designs, replacing the portrait of the ousted Prime Minister and the nation's founding father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, with natural landscape and ...

On August 15, 1975, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was brutally killed along with his family at his own residence on Road 32, Dhanmondi. Fifty years have now passed since that assassination. This year, a ...