As the year comes to a close, several films are set for theatrical release, with “Nakshikanthar Zamin” (“A Tale of Two Sisters”), directed by Akram Khan, scheduled to premiere on December 27.
Bangladesh's hard-won independence, achieved through the Liberation War in 1971, remains the most defining political event in our history.
Duronto TV, the nation’s premier children’s television network, is entering its eighth year since its inception.
'The Hippo Girl and Other Stories' holds up a mirror to a society that judges and ridicules those that do not adhere to its shortsighted vision of a homogenised culture.
Stranger to none, Indian photojournalist and member of the prestigious Magnum Photos, Raghu Rai has been a notable figure in the documentation of the Liberation War of Bangladesh. On May 5 this year, “Rise of Nation”-- an exhibition featuring both released and unreleased photos of the artiste commenced in the capital’s Zainul Gallery, situated at the Faculty of Fine Arts in the University of Dhaka.
“We hardly hear people talking about how lucky we are to be an independent nation. How incredible it is that we earned our freedom. Without understanding the trauma and struggles we endured to earn our freedom, the new generation cannot truly appreciate it.”
A review of 'Father of the Nation Bangabandhu' (NRB Scholars, 2024) by ME Chowdhury Shameem and Iwamoto Keita
Review of Anwarul Azim’s book ‘My Life in Tea’ (The University Press Limited, 2023)
While history has never been a one-man show, viewing it through the eyes of influential leaders can lend us a bigger picture.
ICT-1 decides to hold trial of four alleged Razakars of Kishoreganj in absentia.
A tribunal in Dhaka concludes hearing arguments in a case against three alleged war criminals of Bagerhat and will deliver its verdict any day.
Prosecution asked to submit on July 26 formal charges against former lawmaker Shakhawat Hossain and 11 others for their alleged wartime offences.
Five lawyers will meet convicted war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed at Dhaka central jail tomorrow morning for instructions about seeking a review to the Supreme Court verdict upholding his death penalty.
The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the death penalty of Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for planning and instigating the killing of intellectuals and professionals at the fag end of the country's Liberation War.
The International Crimes Tribunal cited several evidences in the death verdict it handed down to Ali Ahsan Mojaheed, the notorious al-Badr chief of 1971.
“I want them to be punished. My heart wants it.” This was possibly her only wish after she lost her husband during the Liberation War in 1971.
It was a phone call that gave words to a long endured pain and wait. Perhaps that is why Saif Imam Jami called back from a different time zone, taking time out of his busy office hours.
Death row convict Mojaheed will file review petition with SC against its verdict that upheld the Jamaat-e-Islami leader’s death penalty for wartime offences, a defence lawyer says.
Supreme Court begins hearing on the appeal against death penalty handed to war criminal and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
