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Bangladesh Standard Time (BST; Bengali: বাংলাদেশ মান সময়) serves as the official time zone for Bangladesh. It operates six hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time and is observed uniformly across the country as a national standard. In 2009, Bangladesh briefly observed daylight saving time (DST) as a measure to ...
The independence of Bangladesh was declared on 26 March 1971, at the onset of the Bangladesh Liberation War by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman; [a] the following day Major Ziaur Rahman declared independence on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra radio station in Kalurghat, Chattogram.
Bangladesh, [a] officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, [b] is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world and among the most densely populated with a population of more than 170 million in an area of 148,460 square kilometres (57,320 sq mi). Bangladesh shares land borders with India to the north, west ...
Following the event, the Myanmar Ambassador in Dhaka was summoned by the Government of Bangladesh on 6 October 2018. Rear Admiral (retd) M Khurshed Alam, maritime affairs secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Bangladesh handed over a strongly worded protest note to him. The Myanmar envoy said it was a "mistake" to show the ...
A beta-global city, [33] Dhaka is the centre of political, economic and cultural life in Bangladesh. It is the seat of the Government of Bangladesh, many Bangladeshi companies, and leading Bangladeshi educational, scientific, research, and cultural organizations.
Ayub Bachchu, singer and guitarist. Abdur Razzak, actor, director. Shabana, film actress. Bobita, film actress. Shefali Chowdhury, played Harry Potter 's Yule Ball date in Goblet of Fire. Sumita Devi, film and television actress. Abdul "Duke" Fakir, American singer of Ethiopian and Bangladeshi descent, member of the Four Tops.
Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother. [4] His father Naimul Karim (Bengali: নাইমুল করিম) is a Bangladeshi who is a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German biochemistry scientist at the University of Minnesota. [5] He was the elder ...
28 April 2020. (2020-04-28) (aged 23–24) Chittagong Medical College Hospital, [1] Chittagong, Bangladesh. Known for. One of the tallest men. Height. 2.59 m (8 ft 6.0 in) Jinnat Ali (1996 – 28 April 2020) was a Bangladeshi citizen, and the tallest person from Bangladesh.