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Independence Day is commonly associated with parades, political speeches, fairs, concerts, ceremonies, and various other public and private events celebrating the history and traditions of Bangladesh. TV and radio stations broadcast special programs and patriotic songs in honor of Independence Day.
The Independence Day Award was introduced by the Government of Bangladesh in 1977. [18] The award is given on the Independence Day of Bangladesh on 26 March. [ 18 ] The first Independence Day was celebrated on 26 March 1972, in which President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman addressed the nation through a broadcast of the government reforms planned, such ...
In this genocide, 6 to 7 thousand ordinary people lost their lives in Dhaka alone. In Bangladesh, this day is known as Genocide Remembrance Day. [7] After 12 noon on that day (in the first hour of March 26), Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared the independence of Bangladesh and the War of Liberation began. [8]
It set major cities ablaze and crushed resistance from the police and the East Pakistan Rifles (present-day Border Guard Bangladesh). At at 12.20 am on 26 March from his house at Dhanmondi, [17] [8] Sheikh Mujibur Rahman sent a message about attacks on EPR and police barracks in Dhaka, and declared the independence of Bangladesh through a telegram.
independence and liberation war: Lieutenant AG Mohamnmad Khurshid: independence and liberation war: posthumous Khwaza Nizamuddin Bhuiyan: independence and liberation war: Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury: independence and liberation war: Dr Mohammad Mainuddin Ahmed: Literature: posthumous Pabitra Mohan Dey: Cultural ASM Rakibul Hasan: Sports
Recipients Area Note Mazharul Islam: architecture: Fazlur Rahman Khan: architecture: posthumous Mohammad Kibria: fine arts: Sikandar Abu Zafar: literature: posthumous
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]
After independence, the government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman began to promote Bengali nationalism which was also the basis of Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan. [9] However, the nationalism based on the Bengali ethnicity left the indigenous peoples of Bangladesh dejected. Sheikh Mujib, rejecting the demands of constitutional recognition ...