Prominent Bangladeshi Americans include the acclaimed structural engineer F R Khan, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, educationist Sal Khan, entrepreneur Sumaya Kazi, congressman Hansen Clarke and ambassador M. Osman Siddique.
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On the cultural front, Sisimpur, the Bangladeshi version of Sesame Street, is the most watched children's program on Bangladeshi television.
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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 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 a Bangladeshi Oxford Scholar and distinguished aerospace researcher for four decades with NASA, Pratt & Whitney, and the power generation company Alstom (Switzerland).
This was thwarted by the Tunney/Clark amendment, passed by a Democratic congress forbidding any involvement.
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).
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.
The military regimes of Ziaur Rahman and Hussain Muhammad Ershad took steps to forge strong commercial and cultural ties with Saudi Arabia.
It was highly praised in India as a literary fiction but censured in Bangladesh because of portraying Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as a dictator.
Chandina Pilot High School is a boys' high school in Chandina, Comilla District, Bangladesh.
Chaya Chobi is an upcoming Dhallywood romantic film directed by Muhammad Mustafa Kamal Raaj and produced by Nine Entertainment.
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 is a secondary school in Chittagong city, in south-eastern Bangladesh.
Early the next day the IMD reported that Rashmi had made landfall on the Bangladesh coast, near Barisal.
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 was born to Muhammad Afsar Ali and Momtaz Begum in Rajshahi of the then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.
The treaty granted the United States control and expansion of the important British military communications base at Kagnew near Asmara.
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.
1980: In January, Pakistan tours Bangladesh for a 2-day match in Chittagong and a 3-day sellout match in Dacca.
On 19 June 2009, the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khamenei described the British Government as the "most evil" of those in the Western nations, accusing the British government of sending spies into Iran to stir emotions at the time of the elections, although it has been suggested by British diplomats that the statement was using the UK as a "proxy" for the United States, in order to prevent damaging US–Iranian relations.
The brother of the Indian educationist, Humayun Kabir, Jehangir Kabir was born in village Komarpur, near Faridpur in what is now Bangladesh.
The southern boundary was near the border between the Dhaka and Mymensingh districts in Bangladesh.
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 is a planned airport in Bagerhat, Bangladesh.
Iqbal Quadir, founder of Grameenphone in Bangladesh, is the Center's founder and director.
The legislature passed an anti-terrorism law in April 2002 that includes provisions that are consistent with the requirements of UN Security Council Resolution 1373.
Arakanese descendants living in present-day Bangladesh are known as Magh or Marma people.
In addition to the Embassy, the Centers for Disease Control, Peace Corps, and the Defense Department have offices in Windhoek.
Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini, a paramilitary force operating in Bangladesh from 1972 to 1975
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.
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.
In September 2009 Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo revoked plans for US troops to hold joint military exercises and development projects after stating that he no longer thinks that hosting troops taking part in the US department of defence’s "New Horizons" programme was worthwhile.
Northern Pig-tailed Macaque, Macaca leonina (Bangladesh to Vietnam, south to northern Malaysia)
Rajnagar Upazila a subdivision in Maulvibazar District, Bangladesh
After taking lessons on Sitar for twelve years, she joined participating in programs of Bangladesh Television and Bangladesh Betar (Radio Bangladesh).
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.
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.
American business interests have been small; currently, private U.S. investment is limited to the tea industry, franchising (FedEx, Coca-Cola, Western Union, and MoneyGram) and small holdings in service and manufacturing concerns.
He was considered as a Commercially Important Person (CIP) in Bangladesh.
The United States first opened a consulate in Singapore in 1836, appointing Joseph Balestier to the post of consul.
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.
and the first ever Direct Election of the Presidency of Republic of China in 1996 and President Lee Teng-hui's 1995 visit to Cornell University of the United States that incurred the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis and the US intervention by deploying two aircraft carrier battlegroups near Taiwan Strait amid missile tests by People's Liberation Army in the nearby coastal provinces of People's Republic of China.
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)
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.
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.
Tripuri people, original inhabitants of the Kingdom of Tripura in North-East India and Bangladesh
The Tongi–Bhairab–Akhaura line is a railway line connecting Tongi and Akhaura, via Bhairab Bazar in Bangladesh.
Unilever Bangladesh Limited started its journey in Bangladesh with the production of soaps in its factory in Kalurghat, Chittagong.
Viqarunnisa Noon College is a center for higher secondary education in Bailey Road, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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.