Tag: Dhaka

Depending on which side of the divide one listens to, the narrative of Bangladesh’s independence is enunciated differently. It is a usual sachet of history while it remains fresh and bubbling over. As is the case with the concepts of India’s Partition and the creation of Pakistan, once the ...

A photograph showing a huge number of people offering namaz on a busy road was shared by several social media users, including Pakistani-Canadian columnist Tarek Fatah, with a claim that it was from India. The claim comes amid a row stirred up by right-wing groups who have been protesting ...

During his visit from Dec 15-17, President Kovind will participate in Victory Day celebrations marking fifty years since Bangladesh formed a separate nation by defeating Pakistan. In his first foreign visit since the pandemic struck in early 2020, President Ram Nath Kovind reached Bangladesh on Wednesday. During his visit ...

Bangladesh, December 15 : President Ram Nath Kovind arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday and was received by Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid and First Lady Rashida Hamid upon his arrival. President is on a three-day visit to Bangladesh from December 15-17 to attend the country’s 50th Victory Day celebrations as ...

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind will be visiting the historic 'Ramna Kali' temple in Dhaka during his visit to Bangladesh for the 50th Victory Day celebrations.  This historic temple, which dates back to the Mughal era, was destroyed by the Pakistani Army in March 1971 in an attempt ...

ReportThe weather, however, promises to be better on the fourth and fifth days, with no rain forecastThe third day of the Dhaka Test lived up to its very rainy forecast with a full day washout. The covers never came off the Shere Bangla National Stadium, and Bangladesh and Pakistan ...

LAHORE: A thick cloud of smog that enveloped Pakistan's cultural capital on Wednesday has earned it the ignominious title of the world's most polluted city, according to a Swiss air quality monitoring company. Platform IQAir said that Lahore now stands at the top of its polluted cities ranking — ...

When President Ram Nath Kovind conferred the Padma awards, among the highest civilian honours in India, one of the recipients was Lt Col Qazi Sajjad Ali Zahir - a former Pakistani soldier who risked his life by crossing over to India and helping liberate Bangladesh in the 1971 war. ...

Most of us are aware that about 1 crore people fled to various parts of West Bengal to take shelter in the refugee camps there during Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971. But have you ever wondered about the religious composition of this exodus of refugees?In his book 1971: A ...

Bangladesh’s economic growth means that New Delhi needs a new approach.Media narratives that describe foreign power and influence over Dhaka gaslight Bangladeshis. Those narratives don’t speak to their experience. Meanwhile, stakeholders’ efforts to securitise economic relations only alienate friends in Dhaka. The government there is already criticised for pandering ...