President of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Volkan Bozkir on Tuesday remembered Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as a world leader committed to peace, human rights and sustainable development. I am reminded today of the statement he delivered
As we have noted in the last piece, Bangabandhu was in favour of taking a balanced view on development. His planned approach to economic freedom was to balance long-term goals of equitable development with addressing the immediate existential needs of the people. His approach to socialism
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Sun Online Desk
3rd April, 2021 03:39:11
The Golden Celebration of Bangladesh’s independence, which began amidst Covid-19 pandemic on 17th March 2021 ended on 27th March 2021 with a big success. Those who attended the ten day programmes had to follow prescribed health protocols and, needless to say, though the number of invitees were limited to five hundred hardly on any day five hundred guests could attend the programmes due to the prescribed protocols, one being producing the Covid-19 ‘negative’ certificate. Those interested did not miss the programmes as they were telecast live on all TV channels. 17th March was the 101st Birth Day of the Father of the Nation and on this day virtually the Birth Centenary of the Bangabandhu was concluded. Initially all these programmes were planned to be big events but due to Covid-19 pandemic most of the programmes had to be curtailed and held virtually.