I was born on 17 March 1920. My father's name was Sheikh Lutfar Rahman. My grandfather's youngest brother, Khan Saheb Abdul Rashid, had set up a school called M.E. School. This was the only English-language school in our area. Later it became a high school and it still exists. I studied in this sch...
On 26 February 2021, the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) of the United Nations gave their final recommendation for the graduation of Bangladesh from the category of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to that of Developing Countries. This has been a record achievement for Bangladesh as no other...
It was a crisp, biting winter afternoon when I set out on my way home, my left hand on the handlebar of the bicycle, my right hand holding a huge portrait, in colour, of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. I kept the portrait open, my intention being for everyone on the streets I bicycled through to...
Today, March 17, 2021, the people of Bangladesh are commemorating the 101-birthday of the Founding Father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Politicians, writers, historians, and activists will highlight different aspects of his political philosophy, strategies, and activisms he had demonstrated during his lon...
The nation is celebrating the golden jubilee of the independence of Bangladesh and the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with a lot of enthusiasm. Series of events have been undertaken marking the historic celebration. March 17, this year, also marks the 101st birth anniversary o...
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returned home from Pakistani captivity on 10 January 1972. He was received at Dhaka airport by a huge crowd which included a large number of his political co-travellers and colleagues. From the airport he was driven to the Race Course Maidan (now Suhrawardy Udyan) ...
17th March 1967, Friday Today is my 47th birthday. In 1920 on this day I was born in a little village in East Bengal. I've never observed my own birthday myself -- at most my wife would present me a little gift on this day. I would try and stay in my own home on these days. I find from the newspap...
During the mourning rally in memory of the Language Martyrs, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Mohiuddin Ahmed and Tajuddin Ahmed (February 21, 1964) — mujib100.gov.bd Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his way to the Special Tribunal set up in the Dhaka Cantonment to t...
Under the glorious leadership of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the people of Bangladesh fought valiantly and won the liberation war in 1971 making Bangladesh a sovereign and independent state on December 16, 1971. Thereafter they were faced with greater challenges of building a viable economy ...
