Dhaka: Bangladesh Supreme Court has stayed a High Court verdict that declared 'Joy Bangla' -- popularised by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman -- as the country's national slogan. The full bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed passed the order following a leave to appeal petition filed by the government challenging the High Court judgement, newspaper …
Rapturous shouts of “Joy Bangla Desh” rent the Lok Sabha on December 7, 1971, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi announced in the House that the Government had decided “to grant recognition to the Gana Prajatantri Bangla Desh”. It is our hope that with the passage of time more nations will grant recognition to the ‘Gana Prajatantri Bangla Desh’ and it …
Right from 14 August 1947, when the new sovereign state of Pakistan was created, East Pakistan looked like an anomaly and an articulate construct. The uprising began in earnest in East Pakistan as a newly formed “Mukti Bahini” took up arms for an independent country. Confident that the US and its allies would conveniently look the other way, the Pakistani …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday visited the mausoleum of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and paid floral tributes to him, becoming the first-ever foreign Head of State or Head of Government to pay homage at the grave of 'Bangabandhu' at Tungipara in southwestern Bangladesh. Prime Minister Modi was received at the mausoleum by his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina, who is the …
In June 1971, a young Member of Parliament stood up to initiate a discussion, calling for the Government of India to accord diplomatic recognition to the Bangladesh government-in exile based in the Bangladeshi town of Mujibnagar that functioned as the provisional government, while its leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was in a Karachi prison. Mukherjee was invited to contribute to the …
