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Tassduq Ahmad
Tassaduq Ahmad, born Tassaduq Ahmad Chowdhury, MBE was a British-Bangladeshi politician, social worker, and activist. Early life Ahmad was born on 2 April 1923 in Golapganj Upazila, Sylhet District, Assam, British India. His father, Madris Ahmad Chowdhury, was a bureaucrat. In 1943, he removed Chowdhury from his name due to the name being a Zamindar title. He was the General Secretary of All Assam Muslim Students Federation and campaigned in the 1947 Sylhet Referendum which resulted in Sylhet District being separated from Assam and joined to East Bengal (present Bangladesh). Career Ahmad worked as a journalist in the ''Daily Pakistan Observer'' (which became The Bangladesh Observer. He also worked at the '' Daily Sangbad.'' Ahmad was involved in the 1952 Bengali Language movement and had to flee East Pakistan for Great Britain after the government tried to detain him for his involvement in the movement. Ahmad published two newspapers in England, ''Desher Dak'' and Eastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Bangladeshis
British Bangladeshis ( bn, বিলাতী বাংলাদেশী, Bilatī Bangladeshī) are people of Bangladeshi diaspora, Bangladeshi origin who have attained citizenship in the United Kingdom, through immigration and historical naturalisation. The term can also refer to their descendants. Bengali Muslims have prominently been migrating to the UK since the 1940s. Migration reached its peak during the 1970s, with most originating from the Sylhet Division. The largest concentration live in east London boroughs, such as London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Tower Hamlets. This large diaspora in London leads people in Sylhet to refer to British Bangladeshis as Londoni ( bn, লন্ডনী). Bangladeshis form one of the UK's largest group of people of overseas descent and are also one of the country's youngest and fastest growing communities. The 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 UK Census recorded nearly half-a-million residents of Bangladeshi ethnicity. While in the 2021 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British People Of Bangladeshi Descent
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Politicians From Sylhet Division
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People From Golapganj Upazila
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2001 Deaths
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1923 Births
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Soho
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London. Originally a fashionable district for the aristocracy, it has been one of the main entertainment districts in the capital since the 19th century. The area was developed from farmland by Henry VIII in 1536, when it became a royal park. It became a parish in its own right in the late 17th century, when buildings started to be developed for the upper class, including the laying out of Soho Square in the 1680s. St Anne's Church was established during the late 17th century, and remains a significant local landmark; other churches are the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory and St Patrick's Church in Soho Square. The aristocracy had mostly moved away by the mid-19th century, when Soho was particularly badly hit by an outbreak of cholera in 1854. For much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation as a base for the sex industry in addition to its night life and its location for the headq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Pakistan
East Pakistan was a Pakistani province established in 1955 by the One Unit Scheme, One Unit Policy, renaming the province as such from East Bengal, which, in modern times, is split between India and Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Myanmar, with a coastline on the Bay of Bengal. East Pakistanis were popularly known as "Pakistani Bengalis"; to distinguish this region from India's state West Bengal (which is also known as "Indian Bengal"), East Pakistan was known as "Pakistani Bengal". In 1971, East Pakistan became the newly independent state Bangladesh, which means "country of Bengal" in Bengali. East Pakistan was renamed from East Bengal by the One Unit Scheme of Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammad Ali of Bogra. The Constitution of Pakistan of 1956 replaced the Pakistani monarchy with an Islamic republic. Bengali politician H. S. Suhrawardy served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan between 1956 and 1957 and a Bengali bureaucrat Iskander Mirza became the first Presid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sangbad
''The Sangbad'' ( bn, সংবাদ) is a Bengali-language daily newspaper, founded in 1951 and published from Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the oldest newspaper in Bangladesh. History The Sangbad was founded in 1951 and published from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Its first owner was Nasiruddin Ahmad and its first editor was Khairul Kabir. During the 1950s and 1960s the newspaper expressed strong views opposed to the Ayub Khan government of Pakistan, and was accordingly repressed. Its offices and printing pressed were burned during the crackdown in March 1971, and it remained closed during the entire Bangladesh Liberation War. On 31 October 2017 a journalist of the Sangbad was arrested under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. He had shown people screenshots of fake photos of the President and Prime Minister on his phone. Bazlur Rahman was a editor of the newspaper. In November 2020, the acting editor of the newspaper, Khandaker Muniruzzaman, died after catching COVI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golapganj Upazila
Golapganj Upazila ( bn, গোলাপগঞ্জ), previously known as Gulabganj, is an upazila of Sylhet District in the Division of Sylhet, Bangladesh. Geography Golapganj Upazila (Sylhet District) area 278.34 km2, located in between 24°41' and 24°55' north latitudes and in between 91°55' and 92°06' east longitudes. It is bounded by Sylhet Sadar, Jaintiapur and Kanaighat upazilas on the north, Fenchuganj and Barlekha upazilas on the south, Beanibazar and Barlekha on the east, Sylhet Sadar and Dakshin Surma upazila on the west. ''Water bodies'' Main rivers surma, kushiyara, Sonai; Singari Beel, Bagha Beel, Fatamati Beel, Parea Beel and Sonadubi Beel are notable. History After the Conquest of Gour in 1303, two disciple of Shah Jalal; Shah Bahauddin and Shah Putla Fattah, migrated to Bhadeshwar in modern-day Golapganj where their mazars remains today. In 1740, during the reign of Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah, Gulab Ram Ray of Murshidabad was appoint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bangladesh Observer
''The Bangladesh Observer'', founded by Hamidul Huq Choudhury in 1949, was the oldest, continuously published English-language daily newspaper in Bangladesh until it ceased publication in June 2010. History Since its inception as ''The Pakistan Observer'' in 1949, the newspaper consistently followed an independent editorial policy reflecting both the personality of its owner Hamidul Huq Choudhury and its long time editor Abdus Salam, and was an appropriate stance considering the tumultuous history of the region. Mohammad Shehabullah served as the newspaper's first editor. Shehabullah was succeeded by Abdus Salam Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard. (; ; 29 January 192621 November 1996) was a Punjabi Pakistani theoretical physicist and a N ..., who served as editor of ''The Pakistan Observer'' from 1949 to 1972. The East Pakistan provincial government impose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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