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Bangladeshi War of Independence (1971) Location: Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bay of Bengal. A Mukti Bahini 3.7 inch howitzer used during the war: Bangladesh India (3–16 December 1971) Soviet Union Pakistan United States: Victory. Independence of Bangladesh; Internal conflict in Bangladesh (1972–present) Location: Bangladesh Bangladesh
Bangladesh is elected to a two-year term on the UN Security Council. 3 June: Zia-ur Rahman wins presidential election and secures his position for a five-year term. 1979: 18 February: The 1979 General Election takes place. Bangladesh Nationalist Party led by Zia scores a decisive victory. [21] 1981: 30 May: Assassination of Ziaur Rahman. 1982: ...
Holocene calendar: 11576: Igbo calendar: 576–577: Iranian calendar: 954–955: Islamic calendar: 983–984: Japanese calendar: Tenshō 4 (天正4年) Javanese calendar: 1495–1496: Julian calendar: 1576 MDLXXVI: Korean calendar: 3909: Minguo calendar: 336 before ROC 民前336年: Nanakshahi calendar: 108: Thai solar calendar: 2118–2119 ...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) is a war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh set up in 2009 to investigate and prosecute suspects for the genocide committed in 1971 by the Pakistan Army and their local collaborators, Razakars, Al-Badr and Al-Shams during the Bangladesh Liberation War. [201]
In 2018, the Bangladesh government planned to modify the Bangladeshi calendar again. [21] The changes were done to match national days with West. [ citation needed ] As a result of the modification, Kartik started on Thursday (17 October 2019) and the dry season was delayed by a day as the revised calendar went into effect from Wednesday (16 ...
[1] [2] The Mughal Empire defeated the Sultanate at the Battle of Rajmahal on 12 July 1576, formally establishing the Bengal as the easternmost province of the subcontinent-wide empire. However, the collapse of the Sultanate led to the formation of the Baro-Bhuiyans ; a loose confederacy of independent chieftains across Bengal who continued to ...
The accord also gave back 13,000 km 2 (5,019 sq mi) of land that Indian troops had seized in West Pakistan during the war, though India retained a few strategic areas, [117] most notably Kargil (which was in turn the focal point of a war between the two nations in 1999). This was done as a measure of promoting "lasting peace" and acknowledged ...
Bangladesh and India have increasingly focused on regional connectivity and trade. In 2010, the Supreme Court of Bangladesh reaffirmed secularism as a fundamental principle in the constitution. The war crimes tribunal mobilised public opinion in favour of secularism, which was manifested in the March 2013 Shahbag protests.