If they manage to overrun the entire Rakhine province and declare independence, this will be the first successful secessionist campaign in Asia after the birth of Bangladesh in 1971. Establishing ...

Textbooks in Bangladesh will now state that Ziaur Rahman — not ‘Bangabandhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman — declared the country’s independence in 1971, The Daily Star reported on Wednesday. The new ...

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman served in leadership roles as either president or prime minister from April 1971 until his assassination. His Awami League party achieved overwhelming success in the 1970 ...

Now, school textbooks will say Ziaur Rahman — not ‘Bangabandhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman — declared the country’s independence in 1971. File image/Reuters History is written by the victors, is the ...

Bangladesh Rewriting Textbooks on 1971 War: The Bangladesh interim government has revised textbooks on the 1971 Liberation War to state that Ziaur Rahman declared the country’s independence, replacing ...

View all 2017 Honda Civic specs. The good: The bad: Stiff competition in its segment resulted in the Civic's complete redesign in 2016, giving it more personality with plenty of advanced driver ...

Come February 2025, the Pakistan Army will start training its Bangladeshi counterpart. This is for the first time since the 1971 Liberation War, which gave birth to the independent Bangladesh, that ...

Congress criticized the BJP for replacing a painting of the 1971 Pakistani surrender at Army HQ with new artwork, claiming it's an attempt to rewrite history. The Army clarified the painting was ...