Bangladesh sought to re-write its history as the new textbooks for primary and secondary students placed former military ...

Shyam Benegal,a renowned Indian filmmaker known for pioneering a new wave cinema movement that tackled social issues in the ...

Bangladesh founder-President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s stature in the country’s public life has been diminishing since the ouster of his daughter, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, from power in ...

A defaced portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s founding father, in the capital, Dhaka, in November. His daughter Sheikh Hasina was ousted as prime minister this summer.Credit ...

The new textbooks for the 2025 academic year will state that 'on March 26, 1971, Ziaur Rahman declared the independence of ...

Bangladesh introduces new textbooks crediting Ziaur Rahman with declaring independence in 1971, removing title "Father of the ...

New Bangladeshi textbooks for primary and secondary students have reportedly removed the title 'Father of the Nation' for ...

Researcher Rakhal Raha, entrusted with making the changes, said they tried to free the textbooks from ‘exaggerated, imposed ...

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India in August following a student movement, is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Benegal was born in December 1934, in Hyderabad ...