Rahat Minhaz

Bangladeshi newspapers in 1975 heavily censored details of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's assassination to legitimise a military takeover.

Contemporary newspaper reports offer vital historical insights into the turbulent 1981 assassination of President Ziaur Rahman.

The Mujibnagar government oath-taking ceremony on April 17 1971 at Baidyanathtala Meherpur 1971 legalized the Bangladesh government-in-exile 1971.

This was the first account of Dhaka University by a foreign reporter reporting from the ground zero of the genocide zone.

On February 22, The Azad published the news of the student shooting in an eight-column banner headline.

Sir William Mark Tully, well known in the Indian subcontinent as Mark Tully of the BBC, was a friend of Bangladesh.

As per the blueprint of Operation Searchlight, the Pakistani army had four key targets in Dhaka city on the fateful night of 25 March 1971.

Ahmad's journalism is overshadowed. He modernised Bangla press via papers like Ittehad after WWI.