As a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University with a research focus on Bangladesh history, I paid close attention when media reports came out about a draft bill that would punish any distortion of the ...

A Dhaka court has placed three leaders of Muktijuddho Mancha on remand for an attack on Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) Vice President (VP) Nurul Haque Nur and his followers. Dhaka ...

Detectives have finally detained two alleged attackers a day after lesser known Muktijuddho Mancha activists unleashed violence at the premises of the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu), ...

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Moinul Haque issued the order on Tuesday after police sought five days to question them in custody. Among the detainees, Muktijuddha Mancha's General Secretary Al Mamun ...

Muktijuddho Mancha reported that last month (November) 40 students from the Madrasa were raped by their teachers. Three of them died and one committed suicide. Dhaka (AsiaNews) - 40 children, students ...

The December 2024 edition of Chhatra Shibir's mouthpiece, the monthly Chhatra Sangbad (meaning student news) was themed after the mass uprising that loosely translates to "the bloody chapter of ...

Muktijuddho Mancha, an organisation of pro-Liberation War activists, has demanded punishment of Dhaka University’s Professor Imtiaz Ahmed for distorting the war history in a book - an allegation he ...

The black hole forms in the unbearable summer of 1971. West Pakistan cancels East Pakistan’s popular democratic elections. Pakistan launches a brutal military assault on the University of Dhaka, ...

Najneen Sultana was a girl barely out of her teens when her hometown in Bangladesh’s Chattagram turned into a training centre for the muktijoddhas prepping for the Liberation War of 1971. The Bengali ...

Dhaka: Bangladesh on Monday conferred its second highest award on President Pranab Mukherjee for his valuable contribution to the country's liberation war in 1971. "Your support towards our War of ...

Dhaka: Bangladesh's cabinet decided on Tuesday to confer the highest state honour on India's former prime minister Indira Gandhi for her "tremendous contribution" to its Liberation War 40 years ago.

Bangladesh has honoured foreign friends who contributed to achieve the nation’s independence from Pakistan in 1971. Of the 61 recipients of the award in the third phase, 52 are from India and the rest ...