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The conflict and the genocide formally ended on 16 December 1971, when the joint forces of Bangladesh and India received the Pakistani Instrument of Surrender. As a result of the conflict, approximately 10 million East Bengali refugees fled to Indian territory while up to 30 million people were internally displaced out of the 70 million total ...
1 March: General Yahya Khan calls off the session of National Council to be held on 3 March in a radio address. [1]7 March: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – leader of Awami League party that had won a landslide victory in Pakistan in the Federal Elections of 1970, but never been granted authority – announces to a jubilant crowd at the Dhaka Race Course ground, "The struggle this time is the ...
The Logang Massacre took place in Logang village in the Khagrachari District along the border with India on April 10, 1992. The actual massacre involved Bengali civilians, border guards, and the army to become together to attack the Jumma people with axes, hatchets, and guns, burning down all the houses. [ 2 ]
Bangladesh co-hosts the ICC Cricket World Cup with India and Sri Lanka. 5 September: India and Bangladesh sign a pact to end their 40-year border demarcation dispute. [42] 2012: 18 January: Bangladesh Army claimed to have foiled a coup d'état attempt. 24 November: Garments factory fire at Tazreen Fashion factory in Ashulia kills 117. [43] 2013 ...
Jogisho and Palsha massacre (Bengali: যুগীশো ও পালশা গণহত্যা) was a massacre of 42 Bengali Hindus in the Jogisho and Palsha villages under Durgapur Upazila of Rajshahi Division in East Pakistan on 16 May, 1971 by the occupying Pakistan Army in collaboration with the Razakars during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Kanpur, Company rule in India ~ 1,000 Europeans soldiers, merchants, engineers, their wives and children, along with the East India Company sepoys, who were either Christian or refused to join mutiny or join Nana Sahib forces Massacres by General Neill: 17 June–July 1857 Allahabad, Kanpur and surrounding areas, Company rule in India
Percentage of Hindus declined more than two third (over 67% drop) in 71 years, i.e. from 22% of total population of Bangladesh in 1951 to 13.5% in 1974 (8.5% decrease in 20 years), [22] and then drop again to 6.9% in 2022 (further 1.6% decrease).
It is situated near Parbatipur, which was an important rail junction in undivided India, connecting the North East to the rest of the country. The Marwaris, attracted by the prospect of trade and commerce had settled in the town of Saidpur, long before the Partition of India. The Marwaris became a part of the local population and contributed to ...