On June 9, 1971, six guerilla freedom fighters were on the way to the Intercontinental Hotel (InterContinental Dacca) in a hijacked Datsun 1000 car around 6:30pm. Shahidullah Khan Badol was driving, while Kamrul Huq Shopon and Masud Sadek Chullu, Habibul Alam, Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, and Ziauddin Ali Ahmed were carrying three hand grenades each.
Team Crack Platoon from Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET) has ranked 8th overall at Formula Student Switzerland earlier this month, participating against 22 teams from 12 countries. They also clinched the 4th position in the ‘business plan presentation’ category at the competition.
Social worker and youth advocate Abdul Zorhab yesterday called out social media commentators, pleading with them to avoid spreading false information..
His name was Shafi Imam Rumi. Born on 29 March, 1951 Rumi was barely 20 years of age in 1971. This larger-than-life character is one of many who embraced martyrdom in their attempt to gift our precious freedom. Rumi had secured third position in the matriculation exam under the national education board in 1968. In 1971, he just got admitted to BUET (Engineering College at that
Pioneer of modern contemporary pop music in Bangladesh, Azam Khan holds a significant value in Bangladeshi music history. Not one to shy away from carving out a revolutionary presence in the music scene of Bangladesh, Azam khan introduced modern western instruments and infused it with compositions based on the Bangladeshi society of his time.