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Khurshida Begum Sayeed
Khurshida Begum Sayeed is a former commissioner of the Information Commission of Bangladesh, with the rank of a secretary of the government. She is a professor of government and politics at Jahangirnagar University. Early life Sayeed was born on 1 January 1953 in Rajbari District, East Pakistan, Pakistan. She graduated from Shiddeshwari Girls High School and Holy Cross Girls' High School in 1967 and 1969. She completed her bachelor's degree and master's in political science from University of Dhaka in 1973 and 1975 respectively. She completed her PhD in 1985 from Heidelberg University. Her thesis was on the Farakka Barrage. Career Sayeed joined the Family Development Services and Research in 1986 as a researcher. From 1986 to 1991, she was an assistant professor at the department of government and politics at Jahangirnagar University. Sayeed became an associate professor in 1991 and a full professor in 1999. In 2013, Sayeed was appointed a member of the board of advisors of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Information Commission (Bangladesh)
The Information Commission Bangladesh is an independent statutory body responsible for ensuring citizens have access to information according to the Right to Information Act, 2009. The commission is mostly made up of bureaucrats. Abdul Malek, former secretary to the government of Bangladesh, became Chief Information Commissioner on 22 March 2023. History The Information Commission of Bangladesh was established on 1 July 2009 by the Awami League government. It was based on the Right to Information Ordinance, which was passed in 2008 by the Caretaker Government during the 2006–2008 Bangladeshi political crisis and ratified by the parliament on 29 March 2009. The first chief information commissioner was M Azizur Rahman, a retired government secretary. Sadeka Halim, a professor at University of Dhaka, and Mohammad Abu Taher, another retired secretary, were the first two commissioners. They were selected through a selection committee led by a judge of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banglapedia
''Banglapedia:'' ''the'' ''National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh'' is the first Bangladeshi encyclopedia. It is available in print, CD-ROM format and online, in both Bengali and English. The print version comprises fourteen 500-page volumes. The first edition was published in January 2003 in ten volumes by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. with a plan to update it every two years. The second edition was issued in 2012 in fourteen volumes. ''Banglapedia'' was not designed as a general encyclopedia but as a specialized encyclopedia on Bangladesh-related topics. For the encyclopedia's purposes, Bangladesh is defined as the territory comprising ancient Eastern India, Bengal Sultanate, Bengal Subah, Bengal Presidency, East Bengal, East Pakistan, and the independent Bangladesh, in historical succession. The encyclopedia's chief editor is Sirajul Islam. Over 1450 writers and specialists in Bangladesh and abroad helped create the entries. ''Banglapedia'' has over 5,700 entries in six e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladeshi Historians
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] |
1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 ** Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. ** British security forces in West Germany arrest 7 members of the Naumann Circle, a clandestine Neo-Nazi organization. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into '' I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record is never broken. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academic Staff Of Jahangirnagar University
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece. The Royal Spanish Academy defines academy as scientific, literary or artistic society established with public authority and as a teaching establishment, public or private, of a professional, artistic, technical or simply practical nature. Etymology The word comes from the ''Academy'' in ancient Greece, which derives from the Athenian hero, ''Akademos''. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning. The sacred space, dedicated to the goddess of wisdom, Athena, had formerly been an olive grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe". In these gardens, the philosopher Plato conversed with followers. Plato developed his sessions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Dhaka Alumni
A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Universities typically offer both undergraduate education, undergraduate and postgraduate education, postgraduate programs. The first universities in Europe were established by Catholic Church, Catholic monks. The University of Bologna (), Italy, which was founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *being a high degree-awarding institute. *using the word (which was coined at its foundation). *having independence from the ecclesiastic schools and issuing secular as well as non-secular degrees (with teaching conducted by both clergy and non-clergy): grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law and notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The university in medieval life, 1179–1499", McFarland, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Rajbari District
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banglanews24
Banglanews24.com is an online news portal in Bangladesh. The website, along with the '' Daily Sun'', ''Bangladesh Pratidin'', and '' Kaler Kantho'', are owned by East West Media Group, a concern of the Bashundhara Group. Alexa ranked the website 2620 worldwide and 15th in Bangladesh. History Banglanews24.com officially launched on 1 July 2010. The other national news agencies at the time were the state-owned Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), the privately owned United News of Bangladesh (UNB), and bdnews24.com. Controversy Former minister and current Awami League MP Ramesh Chandra Sen sued the portal for defamation in 2014. A photojournalist of the portal was assaulted by paramilitary Bangladesh Ansar members in Shyamoli, Dhaka in March 2014. Bangladesh Islamist organisations that included Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir, Hefazat-e-Islam, Islami Oikya Jote, and Nabi Premik Jagrata Janata vandalized their offices in Chittagong, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jahangirnagar University
Jahangirnagar University (, abbreviated as JU; initially started as Jahangirnagar Muslim University; ) is a fully residential public university, public research university located in Savar Upazila, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was established in 1970 by the Jahangirnagar Muslim University Ordinance of the Government of Pakistan, Pakistani government, which was amended after the independence of Bangladesh to form the university. It is one of the four autonomous universities by the act of universities in Bangladesh. It offers Undergraduate education, undergraduate, Graduate diploma, graduate and Doctorate, doctoral programs in various disciplines, including Arts degree, arts, humanities, social science, natural science, biological science, business studies, law and engineering. The university has produced many alumni over the years contributing notably to research, literature, education, culture and sports. The university has 36 departments under 6 faculties including the faculty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Farooq (diplomat)
Mohammed Farooq (10 January 1949 – 20 August 2018) was a Bangladeshi ambassador who served as the chief information commissioner leading the Information Commission. He was the ambassador of Bangladesh to the Philippines. Early life Farooq was born on 10 January 1949 in Bhola (town), Bhola, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan. Career Farooq joined the Bangladesh Civil Service in 1973 as a cadre of the foreign affairs branch. He had worked at the Bangladesh High Commission in Australia, Bhutan, and Malaysia. He was also stationed in the Bangladeshi consulate in Los Angeles and the Bangladeshi embassy in the United States. From December 2000 to February 2002, Farooq was the ambassador of Bangladesh to the Philippines. On 16 October 2012, Farooq was appointed chief information commissioner replacing Ambassador Muhammed Zamir (diplomat), Muhammed Zamir. Farooq hosted Ronald Meinardus, regional director of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, in February 2015 in Dhaka. He met with de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Textiles And Jute
Ministry of Textiles and Jute (, Pronounce: ''Bostro ō pāṭ Montronaloy'') is Bangladesh's governmental parent agency for the country's Department of Textiles (Bangladesh), Department of Textiles and Directorate General of Jute (Bangladesh), Directorate General of Jute, together which are responsible for the promotion, development and regulation of its Textile industry in Bangladesh, textile industry and Jute Industry in Bangladesh, jute sector. Child agencies *Bangladesh Handloom Board *Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation *Bangladesh Textile Mills Corporation *Bangladesh Sericulture Board *Bangladesh Sericulture Research and Training Institute *Jute Diversification Promotion Center *Bangladesh Jute Corporation See also *Jute *Textiles References Ministry of Textiles and Jute, Government ministries of Bangladesh, Textiles and Jute Jute Textile industry of Bangladesh Industry ministries, Bangladesh 1978 establishments in Bangladesh Ministries established in 1978 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
