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Relations between Bangladesh and the Maldives were established on September 22, 1978. [1]For nearly 20 years after the establishment of diplomatic relations, no High Commissioner or Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary was stationed there, but on 8 August 1998, the High Commissioner's Office was opened in Malé, [2] and Major General Harun Ahmed Chowdhury was stationed there.
On 22 September 1978, diplomatic relations between Bangladesh and the Maldives were established. [3]For nearly 30 years after the establishment of diplomatic relations, there was no permanent High Commissioner or Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, but in 2008, Dr. Abdul Samad Abdullah arrived in Dhaka as the first permanent High Commissioner.
The origin of "ridley" is a subject of speculation. Prior to being known as ridleys, French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède referred to the Lepidochelys species as "bastard turtles." Renowned sea turtle conservationist Archie Carr claimed that "ridley" was a common Floridan term, quite possibly, a dialectal corruption of "riddle." [1]
In 2011, the Maldives government removed duty on all Bangladesh exports to the country. [6] In 2011, Bangladesh Army gave Maldives National Defence Force 7 military trucks. [7] Maldives closed its High Commission in Dhaka in March 2014 after the foreign ministry budget was slashed by 40 percent. Bangladesh offered to pay rent for embassy ...
The olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea), also known commonly as the Pacific ridley sea turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Cheloniidae. The species is the second-smallest [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and most abundant of all sea turtles found in the world.
Banglanews24.com is an online news portal in Bangladesh. [1] [2] The website, along with the Daily Sun, Bangladesh Pratidin, and Kaler Kantho, are owned by East West Media Group, a concern of the Bashundhara Group. [3] [4] Alexa ranked the website 2620 worldwide and 15th in Bangladesh. [5]
Netra News is run by a grant provided by the National Endowment for Democracy, [8] [9] a non-governmental and non-profit organization funded by the U.S. government.. It is a project under Bangladesh Media Network, which is overseen by a board comprising Kerstin Brunnberg (president), a prominent Swedish journalist, Bangladeshi-Australian academic Bina D’Costa (secretary), and Dan Morrison ...
In 2016, Falu resigned from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party as vice chairman. [17] NTV was one of the nine Bangladeshi television channels to sign an agreement with Bdnews24.com to subscribe to a video-based news agency run by children called Prism in May 2016. [18] NTV aired the Miss World Bangladesh pageant in 2017. [19]