Content on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Hasina’s father and the nation’s founding President, dropped or scaled down. * India’s role in the freedom movement retained, but photographs of Indira Gandhi with ...

Bangladesh’s National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) has implemented notable revisions to school textbooks for the 2025 academic year, altering the portrayal of the country’s history.

Until this year, textbooks gave special exaltation to the country’s first president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for spearheading that liberation struggle. But Mujib, assassinated in 1975 in a military ...

The government has renamed four highways and eight bridges, all of which were named after the names of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her family. The ...

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a key advocate for linguistic and national identity, later led Bangladesh to independence in 1971. Around four years later, assassins stormed his residence at 32 Dhanmondi and ...

The deposed premier earlier on February 5 virtually addressed a meeting of now disbanded Chhatra League, her party’s student wing, when her ancestral house and residence of Bangladesh’s founding ...

Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is currently in exile in India, called the South Asian nation's interim government chief Muhammad Yunus a "mobster" and accused him of ...

Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accuses interim leader Muhammad Yunus of causing chaos and deploying terrorists in Bangladesh. Hasina pledges to return and avenge fallen police officers ...

Adviser Mahfuj Alam has said enforced disappearances and secret detention centres colloquially known as "Aynaghor" began during Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s regime. Mahfuj made the claim when speaking to ...

Flocks of birds settled on roundabouts, bathing in the rain. Cars zoomed past on highways such as Sheikh Zayed Road, and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road, their tyres splashing water. Watch below ...

Sheikh Tamim's state visit to India began on Monday, 17 February 2025, with his arrival in Delhi at 1845 hrs at AFS Palam. He was then greeted by external affairs Minister S Jaishankar at 2000 hrs ...

Hasina, 77, who fled into exile to neighbouring India, has already defied an arrest warrant to face trial in Bangladesh for crimes against humanity. India is hosting her, and has not responded to ...