THE government鈥檚 announcement for the people who did not take part in the liberation war but have managed to get certificates as 1971 veterans to return their credentials on their own is a welcome step forward towards ensuring justice for the people who took part in the war and for citizens who have so far been led to believe that a number of such people...
Bangladesh interim government Liberation War Affairs adviser Farooq-e-Azam, Bir Pratik on Wednesday asked fake freedom fighters, who managed to get certificates as 1971 veterans to return the credentials voluntarily to evade punitive actions...
The High Court on Wednesday ordered the reburial of Harris Chowdhury, a former political secretary to Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia, at his preferred site with full honours as a freedom fighter...
The Bangladesh army honoured military personnel, who received awards for their roles in the country鈥檚 Liberation War, alongside distinguished freedom fighters and their families...
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD president and freedom fighter ASM Abdur Rob on Saturday said that Serajul Alam Khan was a political thinker who wanted to establish a democratic Bangladesh where people would enjoy their democratic rights...
THE magnificent origin of Bangladesh鈥檚 Armed Forces Day goes back to 1971 in the battlefields of the war of independence. November 21 is a significant day in the victory saga of patriotism. On this day, the army, the navy and the air force united with the Mukti Bahini, freedom fighters 鈥� and led the joint offensive against the occupation forces...
Social welfare adviser Sharmin S Murshid on Saturday in Rangpur said that one lakh heroic freedom fighters of 1971 did not get justice during the post-independence period...
The Rajshahi University authorities on Thursday decided to cancel the quota facility for freedom fighters鈥� grandchildren, but to retain the five per cent quota for their children for admission to undergraduate courses under the 2024-25 academic session...
The interim government has initiated a move to revoke freedom fighter certificates issued allegedly on fake documents without proper verification in the past 15 years of the authoritarian regime of...
The High Court on Tuesday sought an explanation from the interim government as to why those killed during the student-led mass uprising between July 16 and August 5 should not be recognised as 鈥榥ational heroes,鈥� and why those injured or detained should not be accorded the legal status of 鈥榝reedom fighters.鈥�...
The Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD president and freedom fighter ASM Abdur Rab has said that there is no scope of creating controversy on the settled issues of the War of Independence...
The National Freedom Fighters鈥� Foundation in a statement on Sunday demanded the investigation of former Liberation War Affairs minister AKM Mozzamel Haque...
Today is the 53rd disappearance day of eminent singer, composer, social activist and freedom fighter Altaf Mahmud, who is celebrated for his composition of 鈥楢mar Bhaiyer Rakte Rangano Ekushey February鈥�...
Today is the seventh anniversary of the death of freedom fighter and Independence Award-winning singer Abdul Jabbar...
STUDENT power, often seen as the untapped potential within educational institutions, has historically been a force of significant social change. This power, wielded by young minds full of idealism, energy and a desire to reshape the world, has played a crucial role in numerous political, social and cultural movements across the globe. We can also see how far...
Today is the 89th anniversary of the birth of eminent filmmaker, fiction writer, Language Movement hero and freedom fighter Zahir Raihan...
Bir Protik Faruk E Azam, the advisor to the liberation war affairs and disaster management ministries, said that any fake freedom fighters identified would be punished for 鈥榙eceiving鈥� the state....
The National Freedom Fighters鈥� foundation in a statement on Friday congratulated Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus-led interim government...
The 75th birth anniversary of valiant freedom fighter Sheikh Kamal, the eldest son of the founding president of the country Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, will be observed on Monday...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against MM Jamil Ahmed, deputy general manager of the Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation in Barishal, on charges of obtaining a job as son of a freedom fighter though his father was not a freedom fighter...
ON JUNE 5, a High Court bench declared illegal a government circular issued in 2018, which abolished the 30 per cent quota for the dependents of the freedom fighters. In protest, students from all institutions 鈥� schools to universities 鈥� started a non-violent movement, which was made violent by the attack on the protesters by the Chhatra League and the police...
The Appellate Division on Sunday scrapped the High Court verdict on quota in government job and ordered a 7 per cent quota 鈥� 5 per cent for the children of freedom fighters, 1 per cent for national minorities, and 1 per cent for people with disabilities and third genders...
THE Appellate Division has revoked the High Court verdict of June 5 that ordered the government to reinstate 30 per cent of civil service job reservations for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters. The appeals court in its verdict after hearing two petitions on July 21 brought down the civil service job reservations...
THE Appellate Division coming to revoke the July 5 High Court verdict that asked the government to reinstate 30 per cent quotas in government jobs for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters, sparking massive student protests, does not, and will not, heal the wounds that have been inflicted on the nation since July 15...
The High Court in the operative part of its verdict on quota in government job has said that the government at liberty to change, reduce or increase the ratio or...
Independent lawmaker and former Awami League minister Abdul Latif Siddique has raised an allegation that Jatio Muktijoddha Council or Jamuka has given fake freedom fighter certificates...
Jatiya Party chairman Ghulam Mohammad Quader on Wednesday criticised the government for keeping quota in the name of freedom fighters in government jobs....
Public university students on Monday blocked highways, brought out protest processions and held rallies demanding cancellation of the High Court order for the...
Freedom fighters on Saturday declared Rajshahi-6 constituency lawmaker and former state minister for foreign affairs Shahriar Alam unwanted in the Rajshahi city for...
Shyamoli Nasreen Chowdhury, the widow of martyred physician and freedom fighter Alim Chowdhury, filed a contempt petition with the Appellate Division on Wednesday seeking action against lawyer Mohammed Mohsen Rashid and journalist Kanak Sarwar for allegedly scandalising the judiciary of Bangladesh by holding a talk-show...