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Kazi Zafarullah
Kazi Zafarullah (born April 1947) is a Bangladeshi industrialist and politician. He is a presidium member of Bangladesh Awami League, its central executive committee. He was Member of Parliament from Faridpur-4. Early life Zafarullah was born in April 1947, the eldest son of Kazi Mahbubullah and Begum Zebunnessa. He was educated at St Gregory's High School and Dhaka College, and has bachelor's and master's degrees in history from the University of Dhaka. Career Zafarullah was critically injured in the 2004 Dhaka grenade attack which targeted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. In 2005, Zafarullah attended a meeting between Sheikh Hasina and the British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Anwar Choudhury. Zafarullah hosted a dinner for Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, the newly appointed High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh, attended by diplomats and Awami League leaders on 1 February 2007. On 10 April, he criticized a case being filed against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilufer Zafar
Nilufer Zafarullah (born 6 June 1949) is a Bangladeshi politician who was a member of the 9th and 10th parliaments from the Bangladesh Awami League. She is a Director of Chittagong Independent University and Independent University, Bangladesh, Independent University Bangladesh. She was named in the 2016 Panama Papers leak. She is the current chairman of a commercial bank, Midland Bank Ltd. She is a director of Hong Kong Shanghai Manjala Textiles Limited. References Further reading * * 1949 births Living people Women members of the Jatiya Sangsad Awami League politicians 21st-century Bangladeshi women politicians 10th Jatiya Sangsad members 9th Jatiya Sangsad members {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gazi Golam Dastagir
Golam Dastagir Gazi (born 14 August 1948) is a Bangladeshi industrialist and a politician of Bangladesh Awami League party. He is a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Narayanganj-1 constituency. In January 2019, he was selected as the minister of textiles and jute. Gazi is the chairman of Gazi TV and the chairman of Gazi Group. He is a former director of Bangladesh Cricket Board. Gazi is a recipient of Bir Protik, the fourth-highest gallantry award in Bangladesh. In the liberation war he was a member of the guerilla group Crack Platoon. In 2020, he was awarded Independence Day Award by the government of Bangladesh. Early life and education Gazi was born to Golam Kibria Gazi and Shamsunnesa Begum. Gazi graduated from the University of Dhaka in 1968. Career In 1977, Gazi was elected as a commissioner in the first election of the Dhaka City Corporation from his electoral areas — Kakrail, Sidheshwari, Malibag, Eskaton and Mogbazar. Gazi started his manufacturin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhaka College Alumni
Dhaka ( or ; , ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the largest and most densely populated cities in the world with a density of about 34,000 citizens per square kilometers within a total area of approximately 300 square kilometers. Dhaka is a megacity, and has a population of 10.2 million residents as of 2024, and a population of over 23.9 million residents in Dhaka Metropolitan Area. It is widely considered to be the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world. Dhaka is an important cultural, economic, and scientific hub of Eastern South Asia, as well as a major Muslim-majority city. Dhaka ranks third in South Asia and 39th in the world in terms of GDP. Lying on the Ganges Delta, it is bounded by the Buriganga, Turag, Dhaleshwari and Shitalakshya rivers. Dhaka is also the largest Bengali-speaking city in the world. The area of Dhaka has been inhabited since the first millennium. An early modern ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awami League Politicians
In Urdu language Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ..., Awami is the adjectival form for '' Awam'', the Urdu language word for common people. The adjective appears in the following proper names: * Awami Colony, a neighbourhood of Landhi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan * Awami Front, was a front of six Muslim political parties in Uttar Pradesh, India * Awami Muslim League Pakistan, a Pakistani political party * Awami National Party, a secular and leftist Pashtun nationalist political party in Pakistan * Bangladesh Awami League, often simply called the Awami League or AL, one of the major political parties in Bangladesh * National Awami Party, progressive political party in East and West Pakistan * National Awami Party (Bhashani), split-off from National Awami Party in E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th Jatiya Sangsad Members
Eighth is ordinal form of the number eight. Eighth may refer to: * One eighth, , a fraction, one of eight equal parts of a whole * Eighth note (quaver), a musical note played for half the value of a quarter note (crotchet) * Octave, an interval between seventh and ninth * Eighth octave C, a C note * Eighth Lake, a lake by Inlet, New York See also * 1/8 (other) * 8 (other) * The 8th (other) The 8th or The Eighth may refer to: * ''The 8th'' (Doc Walker album), 2014 * ''The 8th'' (Paul Heaton album), 2012 * ''The 8th'' (film), 2020 Irish film * ''The Eighth'' (album), by Cecil Taylor, 1981 * The Eighth (United States), a former U.S. hol ... * The Eighth Day (other) * {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1947 Births
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in the 20th century causes extensive disruption of travel. Given the low ratio of private vehicle ownership at the time, it is mainly remembered in terms of its effects on the railway network. * January 1 – The ''Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946, Canadian Citizenship Act'' comes into effect, providing a Canadian citizenship separate from British law. * January 4 – First issue of weekly magazine ''Der Spiegel'' published in Hanover, Germany, edited by Rudolf Augstein. * January 10 – The United Nations adopts a resolution to take control of the free city of Trieste. * January 15 – Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress nicknamed the "Black Dahlia", is found brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles; the mysterious case is never solv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panama Papers
The Panama Papers () are 11.5 million leaked documents (or 2.6 terabytes of data) published beginning April 3, 2016. The papers detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities. These documents, some dating back to the 1970s, were created by, and taken from, the former Panamanian offshore law firm and corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca, and compiled with similar leaks into a searchable database. The documents contain personal financial information about wealthy individuals and public officials previously private. Their publication made it possible to prosecute Jan Marsalek, a person of interest to a number of European governments and revealed his links with Russian intelligence, and international financial fraudster Harald Joachim von der Goltz. While offshore business entities are legal , reporters found that some of the Mossack Fonseca shell corporations were used for illegal purposes, including fraud, tax evasi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padma Bridge Graft Scandal
The Padma Bridge graft scandal was a political scandal in Bangladesh during 2016 and 2017, involving allegations of bribery linked to the construction of the Padma Bridge, the country's longest road-rail bridge spanning across the Padma River. The scandal implicated officials associated with the Bangladesh Awami League government and raised concerns about transparency in the project's funding and contracting process. The World Bank, which had committed crore ( billion) in credit for the project, withdrew its funding, citing evidence of corruption. The allegations centered on the claim that the Canadian construction firm SNC-Lavalin had offered bribes to Bangladeshi officials in exchange for securing a contract. Two SNC-Lavalin executives were charged in Canada in connection with the alleged bribery scheme. However, after the court ruled to exclude key wiretap evidence, the prosecution withdrew the charges, and the case was subsequently dismissed. World Bank personal state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nixon Chowdhury
Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury (popularly known as Nixon Chowdhury; born 3 March 1978) is a Bangladeshi politician and a former Member of Parliament representing the Faridpur-4 constituency. He has been missing along with his brother Noor-E-Alam Chowdhury Liton and other family members, ever since the resignation of his aunt Sheikh Hasina on 5 August 2024. Early life Chowdhury was born on 3 March 1978 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He came from a Bengali Muslim family of Chowdhuries from the village of Duttapara in Shibchar, Madaripur District. His parents, Ilias Ahmed Chowdhury and Sheikh Feroza Begum, were cousins of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. His father was a politician and came from a ''zamindar'' family whilst his mother, Sheikh Feroza Begum, was a housewife. Chowdhury had Iraqi Arab ancestry through both of his grandmothers, who were direct descendants of the 17th-century Muslim preacher Sheikh Abdul Awal of Baghdad. Both of his grandmothers were also sisters of Sheikh Mujibur Rah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-Corruption Commission (Bangladesh)
The Anti Corruption Commission (; ''often abbreviated:'' ACC, ) is the principal Government of Bangladesh, government agency against corruption in Bangladesh. History The Anti-Corruption Commission was formed through an act promulgated on 23 February 2004 that came into force on 9 May 2004. Although initially, it could not make the desired impact, immediately following its reconstitution in February 2007, the ACC began working with renewed vigor and impetus duly acceding to the United Nations Convention against corruption that was adopted by the General Assembly away back on 31 October 2003. Its framework and function are governed by Anti-Corruption Commission Act, 2004. In 2009, Ghulam Rahman was appointed chairman of the commission, replacing Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury. Anti Corruption Commission was formed through an act in 2004, but is considered to be largely ineffective in investigating and preventing corruption because of governmental involvement and influence over it. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panthapath
Pantapath is an important east-west road in Karwan Bazar area of Dhaka city, the capital of Bangladesh. It connects Tongi Diversion road, Mymenshing Road (now Old Airport Road) and Mirpur Road. Features Panthapath is home to one of South Asia's largest shopping centers, Bashundhara City. Other landmarks are Square Hospital, Samorita Hospital, Unique Trade Center, etc. Green Road intersects this road at about the middle from north to south. There was originally a canal connecting Hatirjeel-Begunbari with Dhanmondi Lake. But in late 1980, this east–west road was constructed. The construction of the road was completed in 1995. Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (FDC) and Hotel Pan Pacific Sonargaon are also located on the eastern section of this road. There are two mosque A mosque ( ), also called a masjid ( ), is a place of worship for Muslims. The term usually refers to a covered building, but can be any place where Salah, Islamic prayers are performed; such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
