The incident took place at around 10:30am, when a performer started reciting poet Rabiul Hussain's poem "Ek Second e Matro Char Foot" (Only four feet in one second) ...

A poetry recitation event marking the Amar Ekushey and International Mother Language Day was abruptly halted near the Chattogram’s Central Shaheed Minar area on Friday after objections were raised ...

This year, there was no gathering of language lovers from both Bengals on International Mother Language Day. Every year on ...

The incident occurred around 12:15am allegedly on the orders of a local BNP leader, for filming an attack on a man at the Shaheed Minar ...

Thousands converged in the first hour, clutching flowers and forming solemn lines to honour the language martyrs—those who died ...

Preparations at the Central Shaheed Minar for Amar Ekushey, Feb 21, this year carry the imprint of the July uprising, with ...

The dismissed members of the BDR and their family members, victims of the Pilkhana carnage, are staging a sit-in ...

Members of erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) who were dismissed following the Pilkhana carnage started an indefinite sit-in at the Central Shaheed Minar from 9am today (11 February), demanding ...

Family members of BDR personnel are staging a sit-in at Central Shaheed Minar, demanding release of "innocent" prisoners in ...

The government employees belonging to the grade 11 to grade 20 at a grand rally on Friday gave an ultimatum saying that they would begin a work abstention on March 1 across the country if their ...

Protesters in Bangladesh have attacked, torched houses of leaders of Sheikh Hasina's Awami League across the country and murals of the country's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were demolished and ...

The first Shahid Minar (Martyr's Monument) abroad was built in Japan to commemorate Bangladesh’s language martyrs. The Shahid Minar was erected in 2005 in Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park in the ...