Every year, we take a step back to commemorate our gallant heroes who sacrificed their lives on the fateful day of February 21, 1952 in a bid to defend and uphold our mother tongue and secure it as state language.
Taking on the powerful state machinery of Pakistan, these young men defended the right of every Bengali citizen to speak their own language. In many respects, the language movement was more than a movement to defend the Bengali language; it was an endeavour to defend all that we hold dear in terms of national cultural identity. And now, for more than a decade, the whole world celebrates ‘Amor Ekushey’ with us in the name of International Mother Language Day. That alone should give us a lot of sense of pride to have the recognition of our identity.
MUSCAT: The two-day educational symposium entitled 'Towards sustainable education to enhance future skills' began at Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre here on Wednesday under.
India has once again called out Pakistan’s juvenile propaganda over the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir and the recent Supreme Court verdict on the Ayodhya land dispute, saying that Islamabad was interfering with New Delhi’s internal affairs using fabricated lies full of deceit and deception .
At the recent Unesco General Conference this month, one of the key issues discussed and debated among member countries was the state of global media development. The overall picture painted was very gloomy. For one thing, traditional journalism, for which the writer needs to be on the ground to report, is vanishing fast. In newsrooms around the world, the craft of journalism is becoming a rarity due to budget constraints in terms of hiring staffers to report, check and verify sources, as well as put into context all the information received.