“Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano Ekushey February Ami Ki Bhulitey Pari...”
District education officials attribute the lack of Shaheed Minars in most schools to a significant shortage of funds
For building toilet at the site
The protesters under the banner of "Justice for BDR" started the protest programme
February 21, 1952. Rajshahi. The day had been a whirlwind of strikes, protests, and meetings.
The following are 7 monuments that people can easily visit this Swadhinata Dibosh or The Independence Day, to reconnect with history.
After Toulouse, a Shaheed Minar is going to be built for the first time in the French capital Paris.
There are no Shaheed Minars in all the 284 madrasas in the district and a few of them observe Language Martyrs' Day and
No advertisement and makeshift shops will be allowed in the Central Shaheed Minar area ahead of the International Mother Language Day on February 21, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says.
Representatives of the ethnic community are staging a token hunger strike at the Central Shaheed Minar demanding for their land rights.
Some influential local bigots had always stopped others from setting up a Shaheed Minar in Durakuti village of Aditmari upazila in Lalmonirhat.
At least 10 people are injured in crude bomb blasts at the Shaheed Minar in Jessore when people are paying their tributes.
Two crude bombs are exploded at central Shaheed Minar in Jessore at midnight when people were paying tributes to the martyrs of the Language Movement in 1952.
Throngs of people walking barefoot, singing songs of patriotism are paying homage to the Language Movement martyrs, who sacrificed their lived for mother tongue Bangla marking a day of supreme sacrifice.
Agitating students seeking retake of the MBBS and BDS admission tests stage a sit-in programme at the National Press Club to press home their demands.
The first Shaheed Minar to commemorate the Language martyrs of February 21, 1952, was built immediately after the events of that day. According to Dr. Sayeed Haider, a main planner and the designer of the first Shaheed Minar, the decision to build it was first made by the students of Dhaka Medical College.
