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Padatik is a 2024 Indian Bengali language biographical drama film written, directed and edited by Srijit Mukherji. The film focuses on Mrinal Sen's active lifetime and his contribution in the Bengali Cinema. [1] [2] The film was released theatrically on 15 August 2024, India's Independence Day. [3]
National Mourning Day of Bangladesh is a commemorative and former public holiday in Bangladesh. [1] Before 2024, on 15 August of every year, the day is observed with mourning. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The day was also observed officially and nationally during the government led by Awami League .
The 15 August 1975 Mujibur assassination marks the first direct military intervention in the then administration- centric Bangladesh politics. There are references on the condensation of the political misunderstanding among the " Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini " founded in 1972 by the patronization of Mujib, Mukti Bahini founded during the war time, and ...
Names of 61 Governor-designates were released, a month-long political training for the governors was yet to begin and end by 16 August of the same year. 15 August 1975: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated, along with most of his family members, during a military coup d'état by a group of Bangladesh Army personnel. With the death of its ...
[18] [19] On 15 August 1975, he was assassinated with most of his family members in his Dhanmondi 32 residence in a coup d'état. Sheikh Mujib's post-independence legacy remains divisive among Bangladeshis due to his economic mismanagement, the famine of 1974, human rights violations, and authoritarianism .
A planned military pacification carried out by the Pakistan Army—codenamed Operation Searchlight—started on 25 March 1971 to curb the Bengali independence movement [29] by taking control of the major cities on 26 March, and then eliminating all opposition, political or military, [71] within one month.
The partition, with power transferred to Pakistan and India on 14–15 August 1947, was done according to what has come to be known as the 3 June Plan, or the Mountbatten Plan. Indian independence, on 15 August 1947, ended over 150 years of British rule and influence in the Indian subcontinent .
The military coup in Bangladesh on August 15 of 1975 was launched by mid-ranking army officers in order to assassinate founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, [6] [7] whose administration post-independence grew corrupt and reportedly authoritarian until he established a one-party state-based government led by the socialist party Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League.