Bangladesh has changed its history in the text books for primary and secondary students which state that the independence in 1971 was declared by former army major and president Ziaur Rahman.

Bangladesh News: Muhammad Yunus-led interim government, has decided to revise the delta nation's history textbooks to replace 'Bangabandhu' Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the declarer of independence ...

What gives it an unmatched edge is the first-hand immediacy the author brings to it. As a journalist with The Statesman in ...

Moreover, the history books of Qawmi students do not have any piece on Bangladesh’s history or tradition. The High Court on Jun 21, 2009 ruled that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman proclaimed Bangladesh's ...

Five former army officers convicted of murdering Bangladesh’s first prime minister, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in August 1975 were hanged on January 28 in the Dhaka central jail. Two days later, his ...

Among them is former army chief Ziaur Rahman — no relation to Mujib — credited with issuing the first public proclamation of Bangladesh’s independence during the 1971 war.

Bangladesh hangs Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's killer . In 1998 Abdul Majed was sentenced in absentia to death along with a dozen other army officers over the murders. By AFP. April 12, 2020.

In a world gripped by a growing craze for graphic novels, Bangladesh has presented its own, based not on imaginary characters but a real-life hero. The Mujib graphic novel, depicting Father of the ...

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was killed along with most of his family in a military coup on August 15, 1975, nearly four years after he led Bangladesh to ...

Bangladesh News: The Muhammad Yunus-led interim government has decided to revise the delta nation's history textbooks to replace 'Bangabandhu' Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the declarer of independence ...

According to the Bangladeshi news report , since 2010, following Sheikh Hasina's second term in office, Bangladeshi textbooks have asserted that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared the country's ...