The Centre for Research and Information (CRI), a policy research organisation, greeted its vice-chairperson Saima Wazed on her birthday Thursday. "Happy birthday to our Vice-Chairperson Saima Wazed," CRI wrote in a post on its verified Facebook page. Read:Bangabandhu believed in peace, dialogue, social harmony: Saima CRI, which aims to create a platform for public discussion on key issues of national policy in the country, said Saima is a trailblazer in mainstreaming autism and mental health into Bangladesh's policy discourse.

Samdani Art Foundation and Centre for Research and Information (CRI) are going to exhibit rare photographs on the birth of the nation from 1971-72 captured by French photojournalist Anne de Henning marking the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence. The exhibition of rare and never before exhibited images, which are later curated by Ruxmini Reckvana Q Choudhury, will be held from December 10-31 at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The photojournalist’s remarkable private archive of unseen photographs is a unique record of the pivotal years which witnessed the transformation of Bangladesh from East Pakistan. In her powerful images the humanity of her subjects is combined with the grit of traditional photojournalism. Read:Art exhibition, Pitha Utsab held at FSA Anne’s first visit to Bangladesh was at the age of her 26 in 1971 when the Pakistani authorities in Dhaka were not letting foreign journalists into the country. Travelling through the country during the Liberation War, her photographs captured life in the war zone – from freedom fighters to men, women and children boarding refugee trains and fleeing from their villages. While recalling Anne’s first encounter with the Mukti Bahini she said, “I saw a handful of young Mukti Bahinis stepping out of their makeshift observation post flanked by a tall bamboo pole flying the green, red and yellow Bangladesh flag. They greeted me by saying with a broad smile: ‘You are now in free Bangladesh’!” She also said, “The first striking memory I have is of my crossing to East Pakistan from India in the blistering heat and dead silence.”

Acclaimed both locally and globally, the docudrama titled "Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale", will be rescreened on BTV and BTV World at 3:30 pm on her Homecoming Day on May 17.  Some private television channels will also screen the visual.  On this day in 1981, Sheikh Hasina, now the Prime Minister, at the end of six years of waiting following her father - Bangabandhu's assassination, landed on the country whose flag and freedom owe to the leadership of her father. Read: Hasina greets Freedom Fighters on Eid A phone call from the other end of the world transmitted the most nightmarish news to Sheikh Hasina, now the Prime Minister and Sheikh Rehana that their father, also the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with his entire family was assassinated in Bangladesh. That changed the course of their lives and also the course of the history of her land.  The ordeals, the ups and downs, and the turnaround Sheikh Hasina, came across since that moment on August 15, 1975, was narrated in her voice in the docudrama titled "Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale"directed by Piplu Khan. Earlier, the film, produced by —Radwan Mujib Siddiq and Nasrul Hamid Bipu— two trustees of the Centre for Research and Information (CRI), was screened at Dhaka Lit Fest, Bangladesh Film Festival in Kolkata, and International Film Festival of India (IFFI). Read: Don’t let Covid to spike with unguarded Eid celebrations: PM Hasina

“I have just watched the video of Young Bangla. Youths are on the frontline at this time of crisis as one might expect of them. The mission they set out deserves an ovation," said the stalwart standing behind the wicket for Bangladesh Cricket Team, Mushfiqur Rahim. 

Radwan Mujib Siddiq, a grandson of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and trustee of Centre for Research and Information (CRI), made a surprise visit to Dhaka Art Summit at Bangladesh Shilpakal Academy on Sunday.

Radwan Mujib Siddiq, grandson of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, made a surprise visit to the campaign office of Awami League mayoral candidate in the DNCC election Atiqul Islam on Monday night and stressed on an intensive last-minute door-to-door campaign to secure victory for the ‘Boat’ symbol.