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Jubilee Bank
Jubilee Banks () is one of the oldest commercial banks in Bangladesh. It is a non-scheduled bank, one of five in Bangladesh. The others are Ansar-VDP Unnayan Bank, Grameen Bank, Karmasangsthan Bank, and Palli Sanchay Bank. It is scheduled for liquidation in 2022. History Jubilee Bank was founded in 1913 in Khoksa, Kushtia as the Khoksha-Janipur Bank. The bank was renamed to Khoksha-Janipur Loan Company in 1964 under the 1962 Banking Companies Ordinance. After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, owner of Afil Jute Mills Limited, Mohammad, served as the chairman of the bank. In 1987, Khoksha-Janipur Bank was renamed to Jubilee Bank. In 1988 the bank with permission from Bangladesh Bank was transformed into a commercial bank with Mia Abdur Rashid, co-chairman of Bangladesh Freedom Party, as chairman. The bank gained some notoriety for having shares owned by Colonel Khandaker Abdur Rashid, Colonel Syed Farooq Rahman, Major Bazlul Huda. They were the convicted assassins of Sheikh ...
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Kushtia
Kushtia ( bn, কুষ্টিয়া) is a city in the Khulna Division of southwestern Bangladesh. Kushtia is the second largest municipality in Bangladesh and the eleventh largest city in the country. The second largest city in Khulna division. It is one of the commercial cities. It serves as the headquarters of Kushtia Sadar Upazila and Kushtia District. Education According to Banglapedia, Dinmani Secondary School, founded in 1930, Kushtia Zilla School Kushtia Zilla School is an educational institution situated at Kushtia Sadar Upazila, Kushtia, Bangladesh. The school was established in 1961. It is located just beside the Jhenaidah-Kushtia road. The academic activities of this school start from t ... (1960), Kumarkhali M N High School and Mohini Mohan High School (1944) are notable secondary schools. References External links Cities in Bangladesh Populated places in Khulna Division {{Khulna-geo-stub ...
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Khandaker Abdur Rashid
Khandaker Abdur Rashid is a Bangladesh Army officer and a fugitive assassin of the first president of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujib. Biography Khandaker Abdur Rashid was born on 1946 in the district of Comilla, in British India. He served in the Pakistan army and defected during the start of Bangladesh Liberation war. Thus, he was a freedom fighter. Despite having a similarity in family name, the only relation between Rashid and Khandaker Moshtaque Ahmed was their common birth district. Khandaker Moshtaque Ahmed became the president of Bangladesh after the assassination of Sheikh Mujib. he was a major at the time of the 15 August 1975 coup and assassination of Sheikh Mujib. He was part of the team that raided the armory of the 2nd Field Artillery on 11:30 pm August 15 to use in the coup. He was maintaining contact with Moshtaque throughout the time. The conspirators held several meetings in his residence in Dhaka cantonment. He promoted to Lieutenant Colonel after the assassination. He ...
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Banks Of Bangladesh
A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets. Because banks play an important role in financial stability and the economy of a country, most jurisdictions exercise a high degree of regulation over banks. Most countries have institutionalized a system known as fractional reserve banking, under which banks hold liquid assets equal to only a portion of their current liabilities. In addition to other regulations intended to ensure liquidity, banks are generally subject to minimum capital requirements based on an international set of capital standards, the Basel Accords. Banking in its modern sense evolved in the fourteenth century in the prosperous cities of Renaissance Italy but in many ways functioned as a continuation of ideas and concepts of credit and lending that had their roots i ...
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AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik
AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik is a retired judge of the Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court who gained notoriety for a number of controversial cases. He was also criticized for submitting verdicts in cases after retirement. Because of his involvement in many controversies, He didn't get farewell in his last working day from Attorney general office as well as Supreme Court bar association. Career Manik started his legal career in 1978 as a lawyer in the Bangladesh High Court. He was appointed the deputy attorney general of Bangladesh in 1996. On 3 July 2001, he was appointed by the Bangladesh Awami League government to the Bangladesh High Court as an additional judge. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which came to power in 2001, did not confirm his appointment. In 2003, he accused traffic police officers of contempt of court for not saluting his car. The Inspector General of Police of Bangladesh Police, Shahudul Haque, issued a rejoinder that said traffic police are un ...
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Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar
Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar is a Judge on the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court. Early life Sarkar was born on 1 March 1972. He completed his bachelor's degree and masters in law from the University of Dhaka. He also completed a second law degree from the United Kingdom. Career Sarkar became a lawyer of the district courts on 1 April 1995. On 7 March 1996, Sarkar became a lawyer of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court. On 24 August 2010, Sarkar became a lawyer of the Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court. Sarkar was appointed an Additional Judge of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court on 20 October 2011. In November 2012, Sarkar and Justice Naima Haider issued a stay order on the University of Dhaka policy that prevented madrassah students from being admitted into eight departments of the university for three months. In August 2013, Sarkar temporarily halted the development of Purbachal New Town Project by Rajdhani Unn ...
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The Bangladesh Gazette
''The Bangladesh Gazette'' () is the official gazette of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh published from Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos .... History The gazette traces its origin to the ''Dhaka gazette'' which was published on 15 August 1947 by the East Bengal government. ''The Bangladesh Gazette'' was formed on 7 December 1973. It has information on corp production, government appointments, weather and birth rates etc. See also * List of newspapers in Bangladesh References Publications established in 1947 Newspapers published in Dhaka English-language newspapers published in Bangladesh 1947 establishments in East Pakistan 1973 establishments in Bangladesh {{Bangladesh-newspaper-stub ...
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Bangladesh Bank
Bangladesh Bank ( bn, বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংক) is the central bank of Bangladesh and is a member of the Asian Clearing Union. It is fully owned by the Government of Bangladesh. The bank is active in developing green banking and financial inclusion policy and is an important member of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion. Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), a department of Bangladesh Bank, has got the membership of Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units. Bangladesh Bank is the first central bank in the world to introduce a dedicated hotline (16236) for people to complain about any banking-related problem. Moreover, the organisation is the first central bank in the world to issue a "Green Banking Policy". To acknowledge this contribution, then-governor Dr. Atiur Rahman was given the title 'Green Governor' at the 2012 United Nations Climate Change Conference, held at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha. History On 7 April 1 ...
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Registrar Of Joint Stock Companies And Firms
The Registrar of Joint Stock Companies And Firms (RJSC) is an organization of Government of People's Republic of Bangladesh. History After the independence of Pakistan, the RJSC was established for the first time in 1962 in the port city of Chittagong under the Ministry of Commerce. Then it started its activities with some documents from companies, professional organizations and partnership business from Calcutta, India. Its office was transferred to Dhaka. Currently, under RJSC, there are 1 lakh 90 thousand institutions (till June 2015) registered. References {{Ministries of Bangladesh Government of Bangladesh The Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh ( bn, গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ সরকার — ) is the central executive government of Bangladesh. The government was constituted by the Co ... Registrars of companies ...
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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ( bn, শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান; 17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), often shortened as Sheikh Mujib or Mujib and widely known as Bangabandhu (meaning ''Friend of Bengal''), was a Bengali politician, parliamentarian and the founding leader of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. He first served as the titular President of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh between April 1971 and January 1972. He then served as Prime Minister of Bangladesh from the Awami League between January 1972 and January 1975. He finally served as President again during BAKSAL from January 1975 till his assassination in August 1975. In 2011, the 15th constitutional amendment in Bangladesh referred to Sheikh Mujib as the Father of the Nation who declared independence; these references were enshrined in the fifth, sixth, and seventh schedules of the constitution.http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/upload/act/2022-04-18-13-27-54-Scheudle__367.pdf Mujib emerged ...
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Bazlul Huda
Mohammad Bazlul Huda (died 28 January 2010) was a Bangladeshi Army officer who was convicted of the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, president of Bangladesh. On 28 January 2010, Bazlul was hanged along with Syed Faruque Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Mohiuddin Ahmed, and A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed in Old Dhaka Central Jail. Career In 1973, Captain Huda was posted to 1st Field Artillery Regiment in Comilla Cantonment along with Major Shariful Haque Dalim. Dalim had gotten into a scuffle with the sons of Awami League leader Gazi Golam Mostafa. Later some officers and soldiers attacked the residence of Mostofa. The officers, including Dalim, lost their commissions in Bangladesh Army because of indiscipline shortly after. Huda met with other conspirators to finalize the plans on 14 August 1975. On 15 August 1975, Huda was part of the mutinous troops that attacked the home of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Huda along with Major S.H.M.B Noor Chowdhury had shot dead Shei ...
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Syed Farooq Rahman
Syed Faruque Rahman (died 28 January 2010) was a coup member involved in toppling the Sheikh Mujib regime in Bangladesh. He was convicted and hanged on 28 January 2010 along with co-conspirators Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed, Mohiuddin Ahmed, and Mohammad Bazlul Huda in Dhaka Central Jail, Old Dhaka, for the murder of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder and first President of Bangladesh. Sayed Faruque Rahman and his close ally Kahandaker Abdur Rashid were the chief organisers of the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 15 August 1975. He was 2IC of the 1st Bengal Lancers Regiment of the Bangladesh Army who led a group of junior army officers in-order to overthrew the regime of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and installed Khondaker Mushtaque Ahmed as President of Bangladesh. Career In 1974, Rahman was placed in charge of recovering weapons in Demra, Munshiganj District, Narayanganj District, and Narsingdi District. He had experienced some things which made him ...
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Bangladesh Freedom Party
The Bangladesh Freedom Party is a party founded by Captain Khandaker Abdur Rashid, Colonel Syed Faruque Rahman and Major Bazlul Huda, the chief conspirators of the killing of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 15 August 1975. 1989 Assassination plot On 10 August 1989, activists and leaders of Freedom Party allegedly launched an attack at Sheikh Hasina's the then residence in Dhanmondi's Road 32. Freedom Party members Kajol and Kobir with 10-12 men attacked Hasina's residence by hurling bomb and firing gunshots, the case statement read. They chanted the slogan “Farukh-Rashid Jindabad” as they left the place. Following the incident, Zahurul Islam, a security guard of the residence, filed two cases—one for plotting to kill Hasina and other for hurling bomb—with Dhanmondi Police Station. In 1997, eight years after the attack, Criminal Investigation Department's (CID) pressed charges against 19 people including Freedom Party leaders and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's murderers L ...
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