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Bottom left: Khaleda Zia, the first female prime minister of Bangladesh, became prime minister on 27 February 1991, 15 February 1996, and 1 October 2001. Bottom right: Sheikh Hasina , the longest-serving prime minister of Bangladesh, became prime minister on 12 June 1996, 29 December 2008, 5 January 2014, 30 December 2018, 7 January 2024.
Chairman of the Bangladesh Public Service Commission: Mobasser Monem: 9 October 2024 [4] Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission: Mohammad Abdul Momen: 12 December 2024 Comptroller and Auditor General: Md. Nurul Islam 26 July 2023 Attorney General: Md Asaduzzaman: 8 August 2024
Landslide Awami League victory. Sheikh Hasina elected for the third term as prime minister. 2016: 1-2 July: Terrorist attack and hostage crisis at Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka culminating in the death of 29. [45] [46] 2017: 25 August: Rohingya refugee crisis breaks out. Over 700,000 refugees flee to Bangladesh over the next four months. [47 ...
The seat of the government is located in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. [2] [3] [4] The executive government is led by the prime minister, who selects all the remaining ministers. The prime minister and the other most senior ministers belong to the supreme decision-making committee, known as the Cabinet.
He became Bangladesh's 16th president on 10 September the same year. [ 4 ] For most of his tenure as president, Biswas spent his time reading and meeting dignitaries including Nobel laureate physicist Abdus Salam , Prime Minister of Pakistan , Nawaz Sharif , the Prime Minister of Nepal , Jigme Singye Wangchuck , the King of Bhutan and the ...
The 76-year-old, the longest-serving prime minister in the predominantly Muslim country of 170 million, has prided herself on how she transformed Bangladesh's economy into a global competitor ...
Mujib attended Commonwealth summits in Canada and Jamaica, where he held talks with Queen Elizabeth II, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and New Zealand Prime Minister Norman Kirk. [205] [206] The Soviet Union supplied several squadrons of MiG-21 planes for the Bangladesh Air Force. [207]
Mashiur Rahman [a] (9 [citation needed] July 1924 – 12 March 1979), also known as Jadu Mia (Bengali: জাদু মিয়া, lit. 'Man of Magic'), was a senior minister, with the rank and status of prime minister in charge of the Ministry of Railways, Roads and Highways of Bangladesh from 29 June 1978 to 12 March 1979. [1]