While we’ve been distracted by the shambles that is American presidential politics, there’s been a change happening in our ...

Partisanship has been leaching into local elections from the open-air market of national divided party politics.

Writer and researcher Rakhal Raha, who contributed to the revision of the textbooks, explained that their aim was to remove “exaggerated, imposed history" from the materials. “Those who revised the ...

Writer and researcher Rakhal Raha, who was involved in the textbook revisions, said they aimed to remove “exaggerated, imposed history” from the textbooks. “The revision team concluded ...

Now, school textbooks will say Ziaur Rahman — not ‘Bangabandhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman — declared the country’s independence in 1971. File image/Reuters History is written by the victors, is the ...

Bangladesh is rewriting its textbooks for primary and secondary students stating that it was Ziaur Rahman and not Mujibur Rahman who declared the independence of the neighbouring nation in 1971.

The move came after the ouster of Mujibur's daughter Sheikh Hasina as prime minister on August 5. His statues and murals bearing his image were targeted as his daughter fled to India.

Chairman of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB), AKM Riazul Hasan, said that a total of 441 primary and secondary textbooks have been revised, and they are now available on the NCTB ...

said they tried to free the textbooks from "exaggerated, imposed history". "Those who revised the textbooks found that it wasn't a fact-based information that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman sent the ...

They also said parts of a textbook and online ... studies teacher who favored the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt curriculum. Warkentine said few high school history classes focus on events more recent ...