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Imran Siddique
Imran Siddique, also spelled Imran Siddiq, is a Bangladeshi lawyer and member of the Constitutional Reform Commission. He is a former defence lawyer at the International Crimes Tribunal. He was the defence lawyer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami politicians Ghulam Azam and Delawar Hossain Sayedee who were charged with committing war crimes during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Early life Siddique did his bachelor of law at the London School of Economics. He did another bachelors in international relations at the University of London. He did his masters in law at the Nottingham Trent University. Career In 2004, Siddique was called to bar by Gray's Inn. he joined the Bangladesh Bar Council in 2005. In 2012 and 2013, Siddique was working as the defence counsel of Ghulam Azam at the International Crimes Tribunal. Azam, former Ameer of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, had been charged with war crimes for his role during the Bangladesh Liberation War while Barrister Tureen Afroz was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constitutional Reform Commission
The Constitutional Reform Commission () was established by the Yunus-led interim government in September 2024 with a purpose to prepare a report on the reasons behind the past constitutional failures and to create a roadmap for holding a constituent assembly election to draft and adopt a new, inclusive, democratic constitution, ensuring the inviolability of human dignity. The commission was formed in the aftermath of a constitutional crisis triggered by the July revolution that culminated in the ousting of Sheikh Hasina on 5 August 2024. The commission is chaired by Ali Riaz. Background The commission was formed following the ouster of the previous Awami League government, led by Sheikh Hasina, during the Student–People's uprising (a.k.a. July Revolution), which forced her to flee to India on 5 August 2024. This paved the way for the formation of an interim government under Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who was appointed as Chief Adviser. Yunus' government aimed to in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chittagong Development Authority
Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) is a self-governing organization in Chittagong, Bangladesh, which is responsible for implementing the city's master plan. It was established by the government in 1959 to manage the city's growth and drew up a master plan to be reviewed every five years to plan its urban development. Area covered According to the structure plan of the organization from 1995, the area covered a total of 1,152 km2. Chandgoan residential area is also developed by CDA. The organisation also constructed two educational institutions within the area, which are: * CDA Public School and College * CDA Girls' School and College Boundaries * In North: Bansbaria of Sitakunda, * In South: Sangu River, Anwara * In East: Ichakhali of Rangunia * In West: The Bay of Bengal The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. Geographically it is positioned between the Indian subcontinent and the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese peninsula, located below ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alumni Of The London School Of Economics
Alumni (: alumnus () or alumna ()) are former students or graduates of a school, college, or university. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women, and alums (: alum) or alumns (: alumn) as gender-neutral alternatives. The word comes from Latin, meaning nurslings, pupils or foster children, derived from "to nourish". The term is not synonymous with "graduates": people can be alumni without graduating, e.g. Burt Reynolds was an alumnus of Florida State University but did not graduate. The term is sometimes used to refer to former employees, former members of an organization, former contributors, or former inmates. Etymology The Latin noun means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from the Latin verb "to nourish". Separate, but from the same root, is the adjective "nourishing", found in the phrase '' alma mater'', a title for a person's home university. Usage in Roman law In Latin, is a legal term (Roman law) to describe a child placed in foster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladeshi Lawyers
Bangladeshis ( ) are the citizens and nationals of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centred on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay. Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the permanent residents of the former East Pakistan were transformed into citizens of a new republic. Bangladesh is the world's eighth most populous nation. The vast majority of Bangladeshis are ethnolinguistically Bengalis, an Indo-Aryan people. The population of Bangladesh is concentrated in the fertile Bengal delta, which has been the centre of urban and agrarian civilizations for millennia. The country's highlands, including the Chittagong Hill Tracts and parts of the Sylhet Division, are home to various tribal minorities. Bengali Muslims are the predominant ethnoreligious group of Bangladesh with a population of 150.36 million, which makes up 91.04% of the country's population as of 2022. The minority Bengali Hindu population made up approximately 7.95% of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Ali Riaz
Ali Riaz is a Bangladeshi American political scientist and writer, currently serving as the Vice Chairman of National Consensus Commission and head of the Bangladesh Constitutional Reform Commission. He is a Distinguished Professor at Illinois State University where he joined in 2002. Most of his work deals with religion and politics, particularly on South Asian politics and political Islam. He has written extensively on Bangladeshi politics and madrasas in South Asia. He was the editor of Studies on Asia, a bi-annual journal of the Midwestern Conference on Asian Affairs (2010–2015). In 2024, Riaz was tasked by the Bangladesh interim government to head a commission on constitutional reform after the end of the then prime minister Sheikh Hasina's 'authoritarian' regime. Early life and education Riaz was born in Dhaka, East Pakistan (today Bangladesh) to Mohabbat Ali, a senior public servant and Bilkis Ara. He earned his baccalaureate and master's degree in Mass Communic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association
The Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association () is a professional association of Bangladesh Supreme Court lawyers. History The Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association issued a statement expressing concern over the construction of Farakka Barrage by India near the border and preventing the flow of water to Bangladesh in February 1976. In 1987, the President of association was detained and placed in Dhaka Central Jail as part of a wider crackdown on dissent against the dictatorship of President Hussain Mohammad Ershad. In 1999, President of the association, Habibul Islam Bhuiyan, moved a petition in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court alleging statements of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was contemptuous of the court. On 2 March 2005, Chief Justice of Bangladesh J. R. Mudassir Husain and other judges of the Supreme Court boycotted the break-up party of the association. President of the association, Barrister Rokanuddin Mahmud, reported that the judges boycotted the event as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Curriculum And Textbook Board
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB; ) is an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Education (Bangladesh), Ministry of Education in Bangladesh, responsible for the development of curriculums, production and distribution of textbooks at primary and secondary education levels in Bangladesh. All public schools and many private schools in Bangladesh follow the curriculum of NCTB. Starting in 2010, every year free books are distributed to students between Grade-1 to Grade-10 to eliminate illiteracy. These books comprise most of the curricula of the majority of Bangladeshis, Bangladeshi schools. There are two versions of the curriculum. One is the Bengali language version and the other one is English language version. History National Curriculum and Textbook Board traces its origins to the East Pakistan School Textbook Board which was established in 1954. In 1971, the Bangladesh School Textbook Board was established. In 1976, it was constituted as the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Board Of Revenue
The National Board of Revenue (NBR; ) is the central authority for tax administration in Bangladesh. It is a statutory authority attached with the Internal Resources Division of the Ministry of Finance. The NBR collects almost 97% of tax revenue and almost 85% of total revenue for the Bangladesh government. The finance ministry proposed dissolving the NBR and creating two ministerial divisions—the Revenue Management Division and the Revenue Policy Division—through a hastily promulgated ordinance in 2025. The ordinance drew criticism from Transparency International Bangladesh, which denounced the move as executive capture of the revenue sector. TIB stated that the move risked politicizing the revenue sector, undermined the autonomy of the revenue service, and reduced accountability, transparency, and neutrality. Debapriya Bhattacharya of the Centre for Policy Dialogue also criticized the move on similar grounds. History The National Board of Revenue was established in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meghna Group Of Industries
Meghna Group of Industries (MGI) is a Bangladeshi industrial conglomerate. It has business interests in chemicals, cement, consumer products, real estate, insurance, securities, and utilities, among others. History 1970s Meghna Group traces its origins to ''Kamal Trading Company'', established in 1976 by Mostafa Kamal. But early in the business poor-quality products were seized by customs, jeopardizing his first venture into small-scale imports. 1980s In 1989, The company established a subsidiary company ''Meghna Vegetable Oil Industries Limited''. Also in 1980s, the company became "Meghna Group" as a group of companies. 1990s In May 1996, the group made its foray into the financial sector by establishing ''Bangladesh National Insurance Company Limited (BNIC)'', with Mostafa Kamal assuming the position of chairman. In 1999, ''Meghna Group'' established another subsidiary company to manufacture small bags, ''United Fibre Industries Limited''. 2000s In 2001 Meghna G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Aviation Authority Of Bangladesh
Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) () functions as the regulatory body for all aviation related activities in Bangladesh. It is the civil aviation authority operating under the Ministry of Civil Aviation & Tourism. All nine operational airports (three international and six domestic) are operated by the CAAB. A member of International Civil Aviation Organization, it has signed bilateral air transport agreement with 52 states. It is headquartered in Kurmitola, Dhaka. History Pakistan period Aviation in India can be traced to the first commercial flight on 18 February 1911, and grew during the period between the First and Second World Wars. Some 103 airports, aerodrome, airfields and airstrips were built and operated by the Allied Air Forces in the part of present Bangladesh during the Second World War. These airfields were extensively used for conducting air operations during the Burma Campaign against the Axis powers. After the War, most of these facilities of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
