Sheikh Mujib had a premonition that he would be killed: Book

Last Updated: Sunday, January 5, 2014, 11:44

Nearly two years before he was assassinated by disgruntled military officers in August 1975, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the architect of Bangladesh?s independence and the country`s first President, had a foreboding that he would be killed, a new book on him says.

Zia`s birthday celebration to hit talks on Bangla poll reforms

Last Updated: Saturday, August 17, 2013, 19:19

The celebration of opposition leader Khaleda Zia`s birthday coinciding with the death anniversary of Bangladesh founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has triggered a controversy.

Bangladesh mourns assassination of country`s founding father

Last Updated: Thursday, August 15, 2013, 22:23

Black flags dotted Bangladesh`s skyline as the country on Thursday observed the National Mourning Day.

B’desh to confiscate properties of fugitive 1975 coup convicts

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 21, 2012, 18:52

The five were ex-lieutenant colonels Sultan Shahriar Rashid, Syed Farooq Rahman, AKM Mohiuddin, Mohiuddin Ahmed and ex-major Bazlul Huda.

Bangladesh asks India to hand over Mujib’s killers

Last Updated: Friday, October 19, 2012, 19:30

Bangladesh has asked India to immediately track down and hand over the killers of that country`s independence architect Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Bangladesh mourns 1975 assassination of Mujibur

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 15, 2012, 16:37

Bangladesh mourned the assassination of its founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on this day in 1975.

Mahatma Gandhi was a magician: Mujibur Rahman

Last Updated: Sunday, June 24, 2012, 23:01

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman wrote in his just-out memoirs in which he mentioned Mahatma Gandhi as a magician who had a great capability of casting an influence on people.

Sheikh Hasina`s son`s trek down memory lane

Last Updated: Sunday, March 18, 2012, 00:11

Sajeeb Wajed Joy, son of Sheikh Hasina, said he is astonished how and his mother escaped the coup that wiped out almost the entire Rahman family.

Sheikh Mujib reinstated as Dhaka University student

Last Updated: Sunday, August 15, 2010, 16:30

Sheikh Mujib was expelled from the Uni for leading a movement seeking a hike in wages for low-paid workers.

Bangladesh mourns its founder`s killing

Last Updated: Sunday, August 15, 2010, 11:31

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed in a military-led putsch on August 15, 1975.

World `too small` for Mujib`s fugitive killers: Hasina

Last Updated: Sunday, January 31, 2010, 14:42

Making her first public appearance after five ex-Army officers were hanged for killing Bangladesh founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, PM Sheikh Hasina has vowed to bring back from abroad the rest six convicted assassins of her father.

BNP refuses to comment on execution of Mujib`s assassins

Last Updated: Friday, January 29, 2010, 15:25

Bangladesh`s main opposition party did not have a word to say on the execution of assassins of country`s founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 35-years after the killers were handed out justice for the gruesome carnage.