March 1971 News Today

51 years ago, Bangabandhu gave the finest speech of his life at the erstwhile historic Race Course Maydan. Disregarding the intimidation and threats of the Pakistani Army's tanks, guns and machineguns, and in the presence of a million audience, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared in a booming voice: "This time, the struggle is for our liberation, this time the struggle is for our independence". In what circumstances did Bangabandhu give that speech? Under the leadership of S...

The seed Bangabandhu sow in historic six-point demand in 1966 got fulfilled with the 1970 general elections. Awami League gained a landslide majority bagging 167 seats out of 313 in the national cabinet of Pakistan. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman became the supreme leader of united Pakistan. But Pakistani military junta and defeated politicians did not handover the power to the Bengali majority, rather they started making excuses from the very beginning of 1971. Even the autocratic General Yaha cancelled...

The seed Bangabandhu sow in historic six-point demand in 1966 got fulfilled with the 1970 general elections. Awami League gained a landslide majority bagging 167 seats out of 313 in the national cabinet of Pakistan. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman became the supreme leader of united Pakistan. But Pakistani military junta and defeated politicians did not handover the power to the Bengali majority, rather they started making excuses from the very beginning of 1971. Even the autocratic General Yaha cancelled...

An excerpt from ‘December In Dacca: The Indian Armed Forces and the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War’, by KS Nair.

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The Fiery March 1971 26 January, 2021 12:00 AM March 1971 was indeed an exceptional month when the history of emerging Bangladesh, as well as the entire Indian sub-continent, experienced unprecedented twists. For Bengalis, this was the most significant month when several historical milestones were laid down. The overwhelming victory of Awami League led by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the General Election in 1970 was completely unexpected to the civil-military ruling clique and most othe...

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Difficult except if i let my mind wonder to the people i lost, yeah. you know the two kids i lost back there. >> the final ntsb report on alm 980 issued a year later in march 1971 reveals a laundry list of all that went wrong that day. quote, the probable cause hof this accident was fuel kp haugs which was because of fume -- insufficient fuel remained. other factors, reduced visibility, a condition not reported to the flight. >> i think the biggest thing was that they kept thinking that they wou...

>> have you completely eradicated your blue collar englishness? >> i got rid of it 40 years ago and reinvented myself. >> do you know what shaw rap national is? >> it is changing. >> it is change in your pocket. i know that. >> i was the guy who in march 1971 was a london transport bus conductor, and that what is the day when england switched from the old currency to the new decimal currency, speaking of change. you had to take the old money in and put it in your right hand pocket and give them ...