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Giri was elected president a few months later. He remains the only person to have held office both as a president and acting president. Rajendra Prasad, the first president of India, is the only person to have held office for two terms. [5] Seven presidents have been members of a political party before being elected.
The Chittagong, Dhaka and Rajshahi divisions, the Malda District and the States of Hill Tripura, Sylhet and Comilla were transferred from Bengal to a new province, Eastern Bengal and Assam; the five Hindi-speaking states of Chota Nagpur, namely Changbhakar, Korea, Surguja, Udaipur and Jashpur State, were transferred from Bengal to the Central ...
Athar Ali Bengali (1891–1976), former president of Nizam-e-Islam Party; Shah Nuri Bengali (died 1785), Sufi scholar and author; Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani (1880–1976), founder of the Awami Muslim League and The Daily Ittefaq; Qazi Mu'tasim Billah (1933–2013), former principal Jamia Shariyyah Malibagh and former professor at the University ...
Served as Minister of Land under President Sheikh Mujib and was later appointed Vice President upon Mujib's death. [55] Abdus Sattar (1906–1985) June 1977 30 May 1981 Bangladesh Nationalist Party: Ziaur Rahman: Succeeded Zia as president in 1981. [56] Mirza Nurul Huda (1919–1991) 24 November 1981 23 March 1982 Independent: Abdus Sattar
First Bengali daily newspaper Sambad Prabhakar was published (1839) Tattwabodhini Sabha was formed by Debendranath Tagore (1839) First Anglo Afghan War (1840–1842) (Retreating British Army massacred by Afghan militias during the 1842 retreat from Kabul) [8] Bank of Bombay (1840) established (later Imperial Bank of India, now State Bank of India)
The Governor of Bengal was the head of the executive government of the Bengal Presidency from 1834 to 1854 and again from 1912 to 1947. [1] [2] The office was initially established on 15 November 1834 as the "Governor of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal" and was later abolished on 1 May 1854 and the responsibility of the government of the Presidency was vested in the two Lieutenant ...
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Debendranath Tagore was born to the famous industrialist Dwarakanath Tagore, who was called 'Prince' because of his extravagant lifestyle, and Digambari Devi, a very pious lady, in the Tagore family in Jorasanko, popularly known as Jorasanko Thakur Bari in North-western Kolkata, which was later converted into a campus of the Rabindra Bharati University.