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Bangladesh–South Sudan relations

In 2012, a high level Bangladesh delegation led by Gowher Rizvi visited South Sudan to explore potential areas for Bangladeshi investment in South Sudan.


2013 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence

In India, activists of Gairik Bharat burned an effigy of Sheikh Hasina in Silchar, in protest against her failure to protect the Hindu minorities in Bangladesh.

A.K. Golam Jilani

A. K. Golam Jilani was born in 24 October 1904 in the Algichor village of the Nawabganj Upazila of the Dhaka district of British India (Present day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh).

Abdus Suttar Khan

Abdus Suttar Khan a Bangladeshi Oxford Scholar and distinguished aerospace researcher for four decades with NASA, Pratt & Whitney, and the power generation company Alstom (Switzerland).

Archibald Jacob

Jacob was born in Jessore, Bangladesh, second surviving son of Captain Vickers Jacob (1789-1836), Indian army and later merchant and landholder in New South Wales, and his wife Anne née Watson (1796-1836).

Azad Maidan riots

The indigenous Bodo community of Assam alleged that the Muslim population is increasing in Assam due to the large influx of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, while the local Muslim community brushed it aside saying that they migrated to Assam during the British Raj.

Bangladesh–Saudi Arabia relations

The military regimes of Ziaur Rahman and Hussain Muhammad Ershad took steps to forge strong commercial and cultural ties with Saudi Arabia.

Bangladeshi English literature

It was highly praised in India as a literary fiction but censured in Bangladesh because of portraying Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as a dictator.

Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher

The Blue-Throated Flycatcher is found much of the Indian Subcontinent, all through the Himalayas, the plains and Western Ghats of India in the cold months, and also extends eastwards into Bangladesh, and to Arakan and the Tenasserim Hills in Myanmar.

Chandina Pilot High School

Chandina Pilot High School is a boys' high school in Chandina, Comilla District, Bangladesh.

Chaya Chobi

Chaya Chobi is an upcoming Dhallywood romantic film directed by Muhammad Mustafa Kamal Raaj and produced by Nine Entertainment.

Chilmari Upazila

During the war of Independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the famous Chilmari Expedition was conducted here by then BDF Sector 11, Mankarchar Sub-Sector, led by Squadron Leader M. Hamidullah Khan.

Chittagong Government High School

Chittagong Government High School is a secondary school in Chittagong city, in south-eastern Bangladesh.

Collaborators Act 1972

Al-Shams and Al-Badr was also formed in order to counter the guerrilla activities of the Mukti Bahini which grew increasingly organised and militarily successful during in the second half of 1971.

Cyclone Rashmi

Early the next day the IMD reported that Rashmi had made landfall on the Bangladesh coast, near Barisal.

Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited

For the first time in December 1982, the eastern and western halves of the country were electrically connected through the commissioning of double circuit 230 kV transmission line across the Jamuna river energized at 132 kV between Ishurdi and Tongi called the first East-West Inter-connector.

Enamul Karim Nirjhar

Enamul Karim Nirjhar was born to Muhammad Afsar Ali and Momtaz Begum in Rajshahi of the then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.

Gharara

Ghararas were also made popular in Pakistan & Bangladesh, in the 1950s and 60s with popular public figures like Fatima Jinnah and Begum Rana Liaquat Ali Khan wearing them.

History of cricket in Bangladesh

1980: In January, Pakistan tours Bangladesh for a 2-day match in Chittagong and a 3-day sellout match in Dacca.

Jehangir Kabir

The brother of the Indian educationist, Humayun Kabir, Jehangir Kabir was born in village Komarpur, near Faridpur in what is now Bangladesh.

Kamarupa

The southern boundary was near the border between the Dhaka and Mymensingh districts in Bangladesh.

Kazipur River

At the extreme northerly point of the district the Jamuna throws off a small offshoot, called the Kazipur river, which flows south through the Kazipur thana and joins the Ichhamati of the Serajganj subdivision.

Khan Jahan Ali Airport

Khan Jahan Ali Airport is a planned airport in Bagerhat, Bangladesh.

Khola Gaon

Khola Gaon is a medium sized village, in the Upazila of Chhatak, in the district of Sunamganj in the division of Sylhet, Bangladesh

Legatum

Iqbal Quadir, founder of Grameenphone in Bangladesh, is the Center's founder and director.

Mirzapur Cadet College

Atiur Rahman, economist, governor of Bangladesh Bank, 2009-...,

Mog people

Arakanese descendants living in present-day Bangladesh are known as Magh or Marma people.

National Defense Force

Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini, a paramilitary force operating in Bangladesh from 1972 to 1975

Nitun Kundu

During the Bangladesh Liberation War, Kundu worked with the celebrated artist Quamrul Hassan at the public relations department of the Bangladesh Government-in-Exile at Mujibnagar.

No. 8 Squadron IAF

On 2 December 1943, they were moved to Doublemooring in Chittagong (now in Bangladesh) to work closely together with No. 82 Squadron RAF in the Burma Campaign.

Parbati Sankar Roy Choudhury

Parbati Sankar Roy Choudhury, (c. 1850-1918) was the zamindar of Teota (now in Manikganj District, Bangladesh) and a philanthropic landholder.

Pig-tailed macaque

Northern Pig-tailed Macaque, Macaca leonina (Bangladesh to Vietnam, south to northern Malaysia)

Rajnagar

Rajnagar Upazila a subdivision in Maulvibazar District, Bangladesh

Ramakrishna mission and ramkrishna math

Ramakishna Math and ramakrishna mission is a historically significant architectural monument situated by the river buriganga at mitfort area in old Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Real estate in Bangladesh

Real estate in Bangladesh has developed dramatically in recent years due to the construction boom and increasing number of high-rise buildings in the major urban centers of the country, most notably Dhaka and Chittagong.

Reenat Fauzia

After taking lessons on Sitar for twelve years, she joined participating in programs of Bangladesh Television and Bangladesh Betar (Radio Bangladesh).

Rikki Clarke

A groin injury to Andrew Flintoff led to Clarke being drafted into the squad for the 2003/04 tour of Bangladesh and on this tour he made his Test debut, at Dhaka.

Rohingya conflict in Western Burma

On 7 November 2012, one soldier from the Burmese Army was reportedly beheaded and three others were captured by the Muslim rebels, by an armed group of the Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO), in their guerrilla offensive against the Burmese army in northern Maungdaw township on the Burma-Bangladesh border.

Samson H. Chowdhury

He was considered as a Commercially Important Person (CIP) in Bangladesh.

Starcom IP Asia

Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Tan Kheng Hua

Drama: Aquafire Productions: Cages directed by Graham Streeter (lead, Pusan Film Festival 2006, Prague Film Festival 2006, Bangladesh Film Festival 2007, distributed by Golden Village in Singapore and Hallmark for Asia Pacific Region), Final Cut (lead, Singapore Int'l Film Festival 1993, Asia Pacific Film & Video Festival in LA 1993, broadcast over HBO and Arts Central Singapore); Zhao Wei Films: Mee Pok Man, 12 Stories (screened at film festivals in Singapore, Moscow, England and Venice, 1994)

Tangon River

After originating in West Bengal, it passes through Panchagarh District, Pirganj in Rangpur District, Bochaganj in Rajshahi District and Biral in Dinajpur District in Bangladesh before it flows through Kushmandi and Bansihari community development blocks of Dakshin Dinajpur district in West Bengal.

Telecommunications in Sri Lanka

The most recent survey was conducted in July 2008 in eight Asian countries, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, Thailand, and the Philippines.

Tipra

Tripuri people, original inhabitants of the Kingdom of Tripura in North-East India and Bangladesh

Tongi–Bhairab–Akhaura line

The Tongi–Bhairab–Akhaura line is a railway line connecting Tongi and Akhaura, via Bhairab Bazar in Bangladesh.

Tribal Areas

Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh are considered as the Tribal areas of Bangladesh

Unilever Bangladesh Limited

Unilever Bangladesh Limited started its journey in Bangladesh with the production of soaps in its factory in Kalurghat, Chittagong.

Viqarunnisa Noon College

Viqarunnisa Noon College is a center for higher secondary education in Bailey Road, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Wangala

Wangala (also known as Hundred Drums, Wanna, Wanna Rongchuwa) a harvest festival celebrated by the Garo tribe, who lives in Meghalaya, Assam in India and Greater Mymensingh in Bangladesh.


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