Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday stressed the need for research to preserve, revitalize and develop the mother languages of the world.
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File photo: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addresses an event via videoconferencing on Thursday, August 18, 2022 Focus BanglaThe multi-storey building that caught fire on Sunday in the capital's Gulshan-2 has not yet been declared danger free, police said on Tuesday.
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File Photo: A fire broke out on the seventh floor of a multistorey building in Gulshan Focus BanglaThe movement for establishing Bangla as an official language in East Pakistan reached a momentum in 1952, four years after the historic general strike of March 11, 1948, that shook the nation due to police torture and arrest of the organizers.
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Students gathered in front of the old Arts Faculty of Dhaka University in the morning of February 21, 1952 while a Section 144 was underway CollectedMostofa Sarwar Farooki's much talked about film “Shonibar Bikel” or "Saturday Afternoon" is set to be released across the United States (US) and Canada on March 10.
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A poster for the movie 'Shonibar Bikel' CollectedState Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam on Tuesday reiterated Bangladesh's commitment towards a “more inclusive and equitable” world, where every language is valued and respected.
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State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam,, Ambassador of France to Bangladesh Marie Masdupuy and members of the diplomatic community paying tribute to language martyrs at Central Shaheed Minar UNBMore than 8,000 civilians have been recorded killed in Ukraine since Russia invaded nearly a year ago, the UN human rights office said on Tuesday, describing the figure as only the "tip of the iceberg" with thousands more thought to have died.
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Ukrainian servicemen fire an anti-aircraft gun towards Russian positions on a frontline near the town of Bakhmut, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine January 15, 2023 Reuters