The government today decided to cancel the "Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International Peace Award". The decision was made during a meeting of the advisory council, chaired by Chief Adviser ...

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.

The government has renamed the Bangabandhu Bridge as Jamuna Bridge and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel as Karnaphuli Tunnel. Bridges Division issued a circular in this regard today which ...

the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus has introduced revisions that strip Mujibur Rahman of his 'Father of the Nation' title. The updated textbooks credit Ziaur Rahman with announcing ...

The revisions largely erase the legacy of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her father Mujibur Rahman’s role in freedom struggle, and India's role in the Liberation War of 1971. The "reforms ...

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 ...

Islamic University recently renamed several of its halls and an academic building, including the contentious decision to rename Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall as Shah Azizur Rahman Hall. Shah ...

In the fresh move, the Yunus government has canceled the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International Peace Award, which was approved by the Awami League government led by Sheikh Hasina just 10 ...

Until this year, textbooks gave special exaltation to the country's first president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for spearheading that liberation struggle. A student-led revolution overthrew the ...

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. However ...

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 ...