The year was 1980. In room 16 of DU’s Shahid Shahnewaz hostel, Sheikh Afzal, a final-year student of Dhaka Art College, was deeply engrossed in painting the portraits of a number of Muktijoddhas. .The 21/22-year-old had very little idea about how they looked in real life..His only c
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today alleged that the filing of a case involving Ziaur Rahman in the killing of three freedom fighter army officers, including Col Khondkar Nazmul Huda Bir Bikram, in November 1975 is part of a "far-reaching political conspiracy of the government
গত বছরের ৪ঠা নভেম্বর, ২০১০ তারিখে গোপন সামরিক আদালতের বিশেষ রায়ে বাংলাদেশ সেনাবাহিনীর পাঁচ সেনা কর্মকর্তাকে পাঁচ বছরের জেল দিয়ে কারাগারে পাঠানো হয় (তারা সর্বশেষ বিডিআর সদর দপ্তর, পিলখানায় কর্মরত ছিলেন)। – উক্ত পাঁচ সেনা কর্মকর্তার চারজনই প্রাক্তন ক্যাডেট।বেসামরিক এলাকা মতিঝিলে ২০০৯ সালের ২১শে অক্টোবর, ব্যারিস্টার শেখ ফজলে নূর তাপসের গাড়ি লক্ষ্য করে বোমা হামলার ঘটন�
Amir Ahmed Chowdhury: An unsung hero
Amir Ahmed Chowdhury.
I did not have many opportunities to meet Amir Ahmed Chowdhury personally, but I got to know about him from so many people that whenever we met it felt like we were close friends. He had this strong aura about him. And he was a man of empathy and action.
Amir Ahmed Chowdhury hailed from Feni. He came to Mymensingh with his father, where he got his school and college education and spent the rest of his life. Although life offered him many opportunities to settle elsewhere with better prospects, he had no interest in leaving. That was something rare in post-liberation Bangladesh where social mobility was high, urbanisation was booming and people were easily lured by better prospects. To move from a small town to the cities was the order of the day and success could be measured by one s mobility, which also included moving outside the country to the wider world.