Actor Tom Hanks noted that when it opened in 2000, what is now the National World War II Museum in New Orleans was little more than “two brick warehouses, a Higgins boat and a tank.” This weekend, the ...

Muradabad is a village in Islampur, Jamalpur. During the Liberation War of 1971, the Pakistani occupation forces established a camp at the local police ...

Khaleda Zia showed courage during Bangladesh’s Liberation War and later honored freedom fighters while preserving the nation’s independence legacy.

Along with the government, different socio-political, educational and cultural institutions and organisations have chalked out a series of programmes to celebrate the day.

In conversation with Rehman Sobhan, one of Bangladesh’s most distinguished economists and a celebrated public intellectual.

From freedom fighter to war hero to business leader to immigrant cabdriver, one man’s quest to keep his past alive in a new land. Golam Khan, 72, gave up a successful career in Bangladesh to immigrate ...

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Looking back at his plunge into theater during apartheid, actor and playwright John Kani sees the stage as a form of resistance — even a weapon. “That’s why I am an artist. That’s why I am a writer,” ...

Editor's Note: The following story is a part of USAG Benelux’s “Honoring our Legacy” series in which we tell stories of World War I, World War II, the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty ...

By Rita Bhowmick  These are two historical photographs from the Liberation War of 1971. In one, Colonel M.A.G Osmani ...

August 1 this year marks the 98th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army of China. Over the past 98 years, under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese ...

Sheikh Mujibur Rehman delivering his historic speech at the Ramna Race Course (now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka on March 7, 1971. Bangladesh founder-President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s stature in the ...