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Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Limited, (dba: Citycell) [3] was the oldest mobile operator of Bangladesh. It was the 1st mobile operator company in Bangladesh and one of the pioneering telecommunications network companies in South Asia , along with Etisalat of Sri Lanka and Paktel of Pakistan.
Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory: Industrials Defense Gazipur City: 1979 Defense vehicles S A Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation: Oil & gas Exploration & production Dhaka: 1976 State-owned petrochemical S A Bangladesh Pratidin: Consumer services Publishing Dhaka: 2010 Newspaper P A Bangladesh Railway: Industrials Railroads Dhaka: 1862 Railroads S A
Five paisa, the Bangladeshi five paisa coin, was first minted in aluminum in 1973. The obverse depicts a plow with the inscriptions "Bangladesh" written above and "Five Paisa" written below. [ 1 ] The coin weighs 1.4 grams, has a diameter of 22 millimeters, and a thickness of 1.93 millimeters.
PEN Bangladesh is one of the 148 centers of PEN International. [1] It is a bilingual society of Bangladesh-based writers, poets, publishers, editors, translators, journalists and academics, aimed at promoting literature and defending the freedom of expression in Bangladesh.
It proposed the first five months 31 days long, rest 30 days each, with the month of Falgun adjusted to 31 days in every leap year. [3] This was officially adopted by Bangladesh in 1987. [3] [20] In 2018, the Bangladesh government planned to modify the Bangladeshi calendar again. [21] The changes were done to match national days with West.
The urban centers of Bangladesh have a combined area of about 10600 square kilometers, which is 7% of the total area of Bangladesh. As such, Bangladesh has a very high urban population density: 4028 persons per square kilometer (2011), whereas the rural density is significantly lower: 790 persons per square kilometer (2011). [1]
Two horizontal bands of red and green, with an eight-teethed black cogwheel (diameter approx. half of the flag's height) in the centre. Directly above the cogwheel lies a yellow rice plant below a yellow five-pointed star. 1986–present Jatiya Party (Ershad) Two vertical bands of green and red with a yellow star in the middle. 1990–present
Mymensingh (Bengali: ময়মনসিংহ, romanized: Maẏamanasinha) is a metropolitan city and capital of Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh.Located on the bank of the Brahmaputra River, [4] about 120 km (75 mi) north of the national capital Dhaka, it is a major financial center and educational hub of north-central Bangladesh. [5]