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Representational image of US navy's 7th fleet which the then US president Nixon had ordered in to Bay of Bengal in 1971. Photo: Reuters
50 Years of Freedom

1971: From the brink of nuke war

The US and the Soviet Union had entered a staring contest over the liberation of Bangladesh in December 1971 and the world was on the brink of a nuclear war 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina received her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at the airport. Photo: Modi's twitter
Bangladesh

Indian PM Narendra Modi arrives in Dhaka 'to deepen friendship between two countries'

Googles doodle marking the Independence Day of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh

Google Doodle celebrates Bangladesh’s Independence Day

National Martyrs' Memorial/Photo: BSS
Bangladesh

Nation celebrates 51st Independence and National Day

Barrister Amir-ul Islam/TBS sketch
50 Years of Freedom

'The blood and sweat of our brave freedom fighters is giving birth to a new Bangladesh'

‘If Bangabandhu left Dhaka on March 25, the freedom movement would have gotten weak’
50 Years of Freedom

‘If Bangabandhu left Dhaka on March 25, the freedom movement would have gotten weak’

The crime did not go unpunished
50 Years of Freedom

The crime did not go unpunished

A Pakistani ship damaged by the freedom fighters in Operation Jackpot during Bangladesh's Liberation War
50 Years of Freedom

Choking Pakistan’s artery: A naval commando story

Hossain Zillur Rahman/TBS sketch
50 Years of Freedom

Freedom made us aspirational, now time to reap high-hanging fruits

Photo: PID
50 Years of Freedom

Don’t let anyone play with people’s fate: PM

File photo of President M Abdul Hamid
50 Years of Freedom

President greets countrymen marking the Golden Jubilee of Independence

Photo: Wikipedia
50 Years of Freedom

Transcript of Pak wireless interception on March 25 black night

Indian Army Gen. Jagjit Singh Aurora and Pakistani Army Gen. Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi sign the surrender document that would end the war between the two countries and lead to the creation of Bangladesh, in Dhaka on Dec. 16, 1971. PHOTO BY BETTMANN VIA GETTY IMAGES via Foreign Policy
Analysis

50 years after independence, Bangladesh bursts into geopolitics