Bangladesh’s interim government has revised the national curriculum, replacing Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with General Ziaur ...

The legacies of Mujib and Ziaur Rahman, and the question of who proclaimed the independence of Bangladesh, have been a subject of debate and dispute.

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

Meanwhile, Ziaur Rahman’s advocates argue he not only declared independence but later rescued the country from Mujib’s pro-India policies. This divide has shaped Bangladeshi politics for ...

Bangladesh has introduced new textbooks that state that Ziaur Rahman declared the country ... merely read out the declaration upon Mujib’s instructions. Earlier, Bangladesh decided to start ...

The legacy of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is gradually being erased in Bangladesh since the country's interim government assumed power after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was overthrown. First, his statue ...

Bangladesh in recent times has taken steps which are detrimental to New Delhi-Dhaka relations. On January, it scrapped a ...

Islami and a segment of the BNP, is reportedly modifying textbooks, dismantling murals of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and ...

with Ziaur Rahman — an Army major and later a sector commander in the Liberation War — merely reading it out at Mujib's instruction. In a related development, Bangladesh recently began ...

Bangladeshis since independence are split between those who trust in the solidarity of the Muslim ummah, for whom the break ...

Almost every political party in Bangladesh is getting impatient for the next national elections, as also the people of the ...

A quiet but deliberate signaling of being a pragmatic political force defines the current messaging of the BNP. Its ...