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2005 In Bangladesh
The year 2005 was the 34th year after the independence of Bangladesh. It was also the fifth year of the third term of the government of Khaleda Zia. Incumbents * President of Bangladesh, President: Iajuddin Ahmed * Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Prime Minister: Khaleda Zia * Chief Justice of Bangladesh, Chief Justice: Syed Jillur Rahim Mudasser Husain Demography Climate Economy Note: For the year 2005 average official exchange rate for Bangladeshi taka, BDT was 64.33 per US$. Events *7 January - There was an accidental blowout at the Chhatak gas field at Tengratial, just a few days after Niko Resources started drilling there. *11 January – Bangladesh register their first Test cricket, Test match victory against Zimbabwe national cricket team, Zimbabwe. *27 January – Veteran politician and former Finance Minister Shah A M S Kibria is assassinated along with two of his aides in a grenade attack at Habiganj District, Habiganj. *25 February – Bangladeshi U.N. peacekee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shah A M S Kibria
Shah Abu Muhammad Shamsul Kibria (; 1 May 193127 January 2005), known as SAMS Kibria or Shams Kibria, was a Bangladeshi economist, diplomat and politician. Joining the Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1954, Kibria served in a number of diplomatic missions for Pakistan. In 1971, at the height of the Bangladesh Liberation War, Kibria, an ethnic Bengalis, Bengali, dissociated himself from the Pakistani foreign service and declared allegiance to the Provisional Government of Bangladesh, Mujibnagar government. After the independence of Bangladesh, he served as the Director General of the Political Affairs department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bangladesh), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh and twice as the Foreign Secretary (Bangladesh), foreign secretary of Bangladesh. Between 1981 and 1992, Kibria was the Executive Secretary of UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). Kibria joined Awami League, Bangladesh Awami League in 1992. He served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18 June
Events Pre-1600 * 618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China. * 656 – Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate. * 860 – Byzantine–Rus' War: A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels sails into the Bosphorus and starts pillaging the suburbs of the Byzantine capital Constantinople. *1053 – Battle of Civitate: Three thousand Norman horsemen of Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX. * 1264 – The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature. *1265 – A draft Byzantine–Venetian treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, but is not ratified by Doge Reniero Zeno. *1391 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present-day southeast Russia. *1429 – Charles VII's army defeats an English ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service has over 5,500 journalists working across its output including in 50 foreign news bureaus where more than 250 foreign correspondents are stationed. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmadiya
Ahmadiyya, officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ), is an Islamic messianic movement originating in British India in the late 19th century. It was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who said he had been divinely appointed as both the Promised Mahdi (Guided One) and Messiah expected by Muslims to appear towards the end times and bring about, by peaceful means, the final triumph of Islam; as well as to embody, in this capacity, the expected eschatological figure of other major religious traditions. Adherents of the Ahmadiyya—a term adopted expressly in reference to Muhammad's alternative name ''Ahmad'' — are known as Ahmadi Muslims or simply Ahmadis. Ahmadi thought emphasizes the belief that Islam is the final dispensation for humanity as revealed to Muhammad and the necessity of restoring it to its true intent and pristine form, which had been lost through the centuries. Its adherents consider Ahmad to have appeared as the Mahdi—bearing the qualities o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogra
Bogra (), List of renamed places in Bangladesh, officially Bogura, is a city located in Bogra District, Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh. The city is a major commercial hub in North Bengal, Northern Bangladesh. It is the second largest city in terms of both area and population in Rajshahi Division. Bogra is named after Nasiruddin Bughra Khan, the Governor of Bengal from 1279 to 1282 and the son of Ghiyas ud din Balban, Delhi Sultan Ghiyasuddin Balban. The city is approximately and is divided into 21 wards. Bogra has a population of around 480,000 people. Since it is one of the oldest cities in Bengal, Bogra is famous for its many ancient Buddhist stupas, Hindu temples, and ancient palaces of Buddhist kings and Muslim sultans. The city has produced notable personalities including Prime Minister Muhammad Ali Bogra of Pakistan, President Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh, both of whom were born and lived in the city. Now Current 'Bogra' is Called by 'Bogura' Officially by The Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
23 April
Events Pre-1600 * 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene. *599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico, defeating queen Yohl Ik'nal and sacking the city. * 711 – Dagobert III succeeds his father King Childebert III as King of the Franks. * 1014 – Battle of Clontarf: High King of Ireland Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle. * 1016 – Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as King of England. * 1343 – St. George's Night Uprising commences in the Duchy of Estonia. *1348 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George's Day. * 1500 – Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvarez Cabral reaches new coastline (Brazil). * 1516 – The Munich '' Reinheitsgebot'' (regarding the ingredients of beer) takes effect in all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Dhaka Area
Greater Dhaka (''Bengali'': বৃহত্তর ঢাকা) is the Megalopolis including and surrounding the Bangladeshi capital city of Dhaka, which has grown into one of the world's largest megacities, and shows a very rapid rate of expansion. Dhaka not only grows because it is the capital and largest urban centre but also due to massive internal displacement from millions of people living in a perennially flood-prone river delta. Definition The area of Dhaka Statistical Metropolitan Area was 1,353 square kilometers, of which Dhaka City Corporation occupied 276 square kilometers at the 2001 census. The Dhaka Statistical Metropolitan Area (SMA) covers the Dhaka Municipal Corporation area and Savar Upazila and Keraniganj Upazila of Dhaka District (note: only a portion of the district is part of the metropolitan area), Narayanganj Sadar Upazila, Bandar Upazila and Rupganj Upazila of Narayanganj District, Gazipur Sadar Upazila and Kaliakair Upazila of Gazipur District. New 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savar Upazila
Savar () is an upazila of Dhaka District in the division of Dhaka Division, Dhaka, Bangladesh and is located at a distance of about 24 kilometers (15 mi) to the northwest of Dhaka city. Savar is mostly famous for the National Martyrs' Memorial, the national monument for the martyrs of the Liberation War of Bangladesh. History The origin of the name Savar is thought to be an evolved version of the ancient 7th–8th-century township of সর্বেশ্বর ''Shôrbeshshôr'' ("Lord of everything") or সম্ভার ''Shômbhar'' situated on the banks of the river known today as the Bangshi River, Bangshi. Shôrbeshshôr, in turn, is said to have been established on the site of the ancient Sambagh Kingdom. Local legends as well as archaeological finds indicate a king by the name of Harishchandra Pal (Savar Pala Dynasty), Harishchandra, said to be of the Pala Empire, Pala dynasty, ruled over ''Shôrbeshshôr''. There is an old shloka that goes বংশাবতী-প ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Structural Failure
Structural integrity and failure is an aspect of engineering that deals with the ability of a structure to support a designed structural load (weight, force, etc.) without breaking and includes the study of past structural failures in order to prevent failures in future designs. Structural integrity is the ability of an item—either a structural component or a structure consisting of many components—to hold together under a load, including its own weight, without breaking or deforming excessively. It assures that the construction will perform its designed function during reasonable use, for as long as its intended life span. Items are constructed with structural integrity to prevent catastrophic failure, which can result in injuries, severe damage, death, and/or monetary losses. ''Structural failure'' refers to the loss of structural integrity, or the loss of load-carrying structural capacity in either a structural component or the structure itself. Structural failure is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Dhaka Garment Factory Collapse
The 2005 Dhaka garment factory collapse or Spectrum garment factory collapse was a structural failure that occurred on Monday, 11 April 2005 in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh where a nine-story commercial building collapsed. The site is located about 30 km northwest of Dhaka. The explosion of a boiler on the ground floor triggered the collapse. The owner of the building was Shahriar Sayeed Husain, a Bangladeshi businessman. He is married to Farah Mahbub, a judge of Bangladesh High Court. See also * 2012 Dhaka garment factory fire * Pakistan garment factory fires (2012) * 2013 Savar building collapse – another garment factory collapse in Dhaka * Thane building collapse (2013) * Accord on Factory and Building Safety in Bangladesh Accord may refer to: Businesses and products * Honda Accord, a car manufactured by the Honda Motor Company * Accord (cigarette), a brand of Rothmans, Benson & Hedges * Accord (company), a former public services provider in sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
11 April
Events Pre-1600 * 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. *1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi. *1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrarese forces led by Gaston de Foix and Alfonso I d'Este win the Battle of Ravenna against the Papal-Spanish forces. *1544 – Italian War of 1542–46: A French army defeats Habsburg forces at the Battle of Ceresole, but fails to exploit its victory. 1601–1900 *1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain on the same day that the Scottish Parliament concurs with the English decision of 12 February. *1713 – France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Utrecht, bringing an end to the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War). Britain accepts Philip V as King of Spain, while Philip renounces any claim to the French throne. *1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
