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The 7th March Speech of Bangabandhu, or the 7/3 Speech (Bengali: সাতই মার্চের ভাষণ, romanized: Sāta'i Mārcēra Bhāṣaṇa), was a public speech given by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader of Bangladesh on 7 March 1971 at the Ramna Race Course (now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka to a gathering of over one million (1,000,000) people. [1]
International Mother Language Day is a national holiday in Bangladesh. The resolution was suggested by Rafiqul Islam and Abdus Salam, Bengalis living in Vancouver , Canada. They wrote a letter to Kofi Annan on 9 January 1998 asking him to take a step for saving the world's languages from extinction by declaring an International Mother Language Day.
A majority of Bangladesh's Muslim population has had some form of formal or informal education in the reading, writing, and pronunciation of the Arabic language as part of their religious education. Arabic has also influenced the Bengali language greatly, [ 11 ] thus it is not uncommon to hear Arabic terminology in Bangladeshi speeches and rallies.
The 1962 East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) education movement was a movement by students against the education policy recommended by the Sharif Commission, official name Commission on National Education, [1] to President of Pakistan, Ayub Khan. The policy would have made English and Urdu mandatory subjects. [2]
The Bangladesh education board has taken steps to leave such practices in the past and is looking forward to education as a way to provide a poverty-stricken nation with a brighter future. As Bangladesh is an overpopulated country, there is a huge demand to turn its population into labor, which is why proper education is needed and proper help ...
Joy Bangla was the slogan and war cry of the Mukti Bahini that fought for the independence of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. [16] In Bangladesh Liberation War, 27 March 1971 Major Ziaur Rahman broadcast announcement of the declaration of independence on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and he finished with "Joy Bangla ...
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, founder and first president of Bangladesh, preferred to deliver speeches in Bengali (his mother tongue and the native language of East Pakistan, previously East Bengal). At the 1952 Asia and Pacific Rim Peace Conference , held in China, he gave an official speech as the Pakistani representative in his native language ...
Bangladesh was ranked 146th among 180 countries on Transparency International's 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index. [189] Land administration was the sector with the most bribery in 2015, [190] followed by education, [191] police [192] and water supply. [193]