As per a report published in this paper on December 15, dozens of illegal brick kilns are using firewood from the forests in Bandarban

Today is the 26th death anniversary of Dr Kali Krishna Majumder, a drama artist of the then undivided Bengal's Tripura,

It was a treacherous journey. On bull-carts and on foot. But it was the journey that finally led to the fall of Dhaka in 1971 and the victory for Bangladesh and its 75 million Bangalis.

Today is the sixth death anniversary of Quazi Azher Ali, a distinguished educationist, former secretary to the Bangladesh government, founder president and the first vice chancellor of Bangladesh University.

Today is the third death anniversary of Prof Fazlul Quader Chowdhury.

As another day concluded with Indian Air Force MIG-21s and Hunter jets screaming across Dhaka sky, firing off missiles and strafing targets below with the strange sound of a heavy steel chest being dragged upon a coarse concrete floor, General AAK Niazi rode towards the governor's house in downtown Dhaka. All he could do was look up at the sky and see the glowing tracer rounds from his Ack Ack battery drawing lazy arcs across the dark sky in a city engulfed in air raid precaution darkness. He could hear anti-aircraft guns around the air field going off furiously. Acrid smell hung in the cold December air.

In this month of our nation's victory over the Pakistan occupation army, we reinforce our call to bring all the perpetrators of the heinous

For over a decade, the indigenous population of Madhupur has been vociferously protesting the Forest Department's move to encroach

On Sunday, the BNP, Jatiya Party and the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh issued their statements on the occasion of Martyred Intellectuals Day without naming the Pakistani army and their local collaborators who spearheaded the killing of the intellectuals.

Observance of the Martyred Intellectuals Day was markedly different this year. The day was observed yesterday with a renewed demand for banning Jamaat-e-Islami, and a call to severe ties with Pakistan for denying the atrocities it had carried out during the 1971 Liberation War.

Today is the 10th death anniversary of Abdul Hakim, a businessman and a social activist of Comilla.

Today is the 44th death anniversary of martyred intellectual Dr Fazle Rabbi.

Sector Commanders Forum (SCF) - Liberation War' 71 yesterday handed over a protest letter to the Pakistan high commission condemning the Pakistan government's recent remarks on the war crimes trials and denial of the Pakistani occupation army's atrocities during the 1971 Liberation War.

Today is the 44th death anniversary of Rafiqul Haider Chowdhury (Eshika), a martyred intellectual, says a press release.

The indigenous people fought by the side of Bangalees for the country's independence in 1971 but the constitution has not recognised them as Adivasis and their right to land yet, a convention of indigenous students was told yesterday.

All a 15-year-old boy wanted was a place in Karwan Bazar in the capital where he could have some warmth at night.

"A new acquaintanceship has begun. The old life came to an end on that night of March 25. Ah, let it be true. New people, new acquaintances and a new dawn. How far away is it? Can't be very far. Only this night! There is nothing to fear. It will be over."

Pakistan army's 195 officers are morally and legally culpable for the genocide of 1971 and Bangladesh has the moral and legal rights to try them. Pakistan's excuse of the 1974 agreement does not give it reprieve.

AT last a deal has been reached to put a cap on greenhouse gas emissions, something that has been eluding us for almost twenty years.

Of the most calumnous and barbaric acts perpetrated in post-World War II era, the killings of our intellectuals in 1971 by the marauding