Tulip Siddiq and the fall of Bangladesh’s most powerful family
The family of Sheikh Hasina were at the forefront of the independence movement but were soon linked to allegations of corruption and authoritarianism.
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AR Rahman turns 57: Prabhudeva’s birthday wish for music maestro reinstates how their track Muqabla remains iconic
Read on. AR Rahman continues to remain one of the incomparable talents in the music industry of our country. Today, on January 6, the composer marks his 57th birthday. While countless fans across ...
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Sanjeeda Sheikh Biography & Movies
Mufasa: The Lion King took the top spot from Sonic the Hedgehog 3 during its third weekend at the box office. Find out which other movies made the top five. Exclusive Wicked behind-the-scenes clip ...
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Anjana Rahman, Parineeta's 'Lolita' Passes Away At 60 In Bangladesh, Suffered From A Medical Issue
It is a sad time for Dhallywood, a.k.a the Bengali cinema industry, as Anjana Rahman, Bangladesh national-award-winning ... Anjana was undergoing medical treatment at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib ...
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Zia replaces Mujib as Bangladesh founder in revised curriculum
Bangladesh’s interim government has revised the national curriculum, replacing Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with General Ziaur Rahman as the nation’s founding figure. The move, it says, aims to ...
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Bangladesh relegate Sheikh Mujib
Reports in the Indian and Bangladeshi media said that the new curriculum dethroned Mujibur Rahman as the 'father ... after the ouster of Mujib's daughter Sheikh Hasina as prime minister on August ...
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Cost and benefit: On Bangladesh, India and Sheikh Hasina
The assassination of her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and members of her family in 1975, and her first exile in India, strengthened the bond. It is futile to expect that India would simply hand ...
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Explained: Why Bangladesh is rewriting textbooks on 1971 Liberation War
Textbooks in Bangladesh will now state that Ziaur Rahman — not ‘Bangabandhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman — declared the country ... according to Syed Badrul Ahsan’s biography of ‘Bangabandhu’. He likely ...
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Bangladesh Rewriting History? New Textbooks To Say Ziaur Rahman Declared 1971 Independence
“Those who revised the textbooks determined that the claim that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman sent the wireless message declaring independence while being arrested by the Pakistani army was not based on ...
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Bangladesh scripts history: Sheikh Hasina's father no longer credited with declaring independence in textbooks
“The revision team concluded that it wasn’t factually accurate to state that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman sent the wireless message declaring independence while being arrested by the Pakistani ...
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New textbooks in Bangladesh credit Ziaur Rahman for declaration of independence: media report
“Those who revised the textbooks found that it wasn’t fact-based information that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman sent the wireless message (declaring independence) while being arrested by the Pakistani ...