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Abu Sayed (Bengali: আবু সাঈদ; died 16 July 2024) was a Bangladeshi student activist who was shot dead by the Bangladesh Police on 16 July 2024, [3] [4] [5] while participating in the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement.
Newspaper Daily Star wrote on 17 December 2018 that in violence before Bangladesh elections some opposition candidates were attacked, 13 of them were injured and two arrested [35] On election day, at least 17 people were killed in clashes between ruling party supporters and the opposition.
The columnist Zafar Sobhan of the Daily Star newspaper wrote, "It is fairly apparent that it was done under pressure from the army because of the threat that the country could lose its peacekeeping role" with the United Nations, which was both prestigious and lucrative in terms of payment to the country. [16]
Muhammad Yunus [a] (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist, entreprenur, politician, and civil society leader, who has been serving as the 5th Chief Adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh since 8 August 2024. [1]
A daily newspaper is printed every day, sometimes with the exception of Sundays and occasionally Saturdays (and some major holidays). [note 1] Saturday and, where they exist, Sunday editions of daily newspapers tend to be larger, include more specialized sections (e.g., on arts, films, entertainment) and advertising inserts, and cost more ...
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In 1971, during the Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan, a large group of refugees numbering an estimated 7,235,916 arrived from Bangladesh to India's West Bengal. Nearly 95% of them were Bengali Hindus and, after Independence of Bangladesh, nearly 1,521,912 people belonging to Bengali Hindu refugees decided to stay back in West Bengal. [34]
The National Flag of Bangladesh is flown on all government buildings. [16] The Independence Day Award was introduced by the Government of Bangladesh in 1977. [17] The award is given on the Independence Day of Bangladesh on 26 March. [17] The first Independence Day was celebrated on 26 March 1972. [18] President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman addressed ...