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Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina in her first statement since ouster demanded punishment for those involved in killings and acts of vandalism in July, Reuters reported Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina “I appeal to you to observe the National Mourning Day on 15th August with due dignity and solemnity. Students, teachers, police even internal women police, journalists, cultural …
In honour of Bangladesh's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the country's Liberation War as well as India's diplomatic ties with Dhaka. Rahman is popularly called 'Bangabandhu' by the people of Bangladesh, Delhi University's Indian Council for Cultural Relations will establish the 'Bangabandhu Chair' Dinesh K Patnaik, Director General, ICCR and PC Joshi, acting …
India on Monday named Bangladesh’s father of the nation, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and Oman’s longtime ruler Sultan Qaboos for the Gandhi Peace Prize, an official statement by the government said. The decision to confer the award for 2020 on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh, his first foreign trip since the outbreak of …
