Day: February 2, 2016

Dr Abdul Momen: Month of February is our month of pride and resolve. In this month, we struggled valiantly and shed blood to protect and preserve our Mother Language, Bangla. In this month, we talk of promotion of Bangla everywhere. Unfortunately, in everyday life, do we care much about promotion of Bangla language? For example, I was travelling by Emirates Air from Casablanca to Dhaka on 28th January, 2016. From Dubai to Dhaka segment, most of the passengers were Bangla speaking. The Airline was making announcements again and again in English and Arabic and never ever in Bangla. When I asked them whether do they care for their passengers? They replied ‘we do care for our customers’. I asked them, although overwhelming majority of their passengers are Bangla-speaking in the flight and many...

    The International Crimes Tribunal, in an observation today, said that there is no scope to question the number of martyrs in the Liberation War because the issue has already been resolved. A three member bench of the tribunal, comprising Justices Shahinur Islam and Mohammad Suhrawardy, and led by Justice Anowarul Haque, made the observation this morning. The tribunal said that it is sad that many people still question the figure given for the number of martyrs in the liberation war. BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has come under severe criticism for questioning the number of peo-ple killed in the Liberation War.