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Nation paying homage to language martyrs

Bangladesh extends pandemic curbs to Feb 21

Vietnam 30 Jan 2021 Clients, wearing protective face masks, queue up at a jewellery shop on God of Wealth Day, which falls on the 10th day of Lunar New Year, as Vietnamese hope buying gold would bring good luck, in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sunday (Feb 21, 2021). - Reuters HANOI, Feb 21 (Vietnam News/ANN): Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City dispatched its medical quick-response team and much needed equipment to Hai Duong Province, the epicentre of the latest C...

The immortal line -- “‘Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano Ekushey February, Ami Ki Bhulite Pari” (Can I forget the 21st of February, incarnadined by the love of my brother?) -- was on everyone’s lips as people from all walks of life walked barefoot to the Shaheed Minar to pay their homage. Several youths were killed in police firing on Feb 21, 1952, to quell protests against the then Pakistan government decision to impose Urdu as the state language on the people of the erstwhile East Pakistan, w...