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Minister Of Finance (Bangladesh)
The Finance Minister of Bangladesh heads the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Bangladesh. It is one of the most important positions in the Cabinet and the Finance Minister must deal with all the other departments and plays an important role in deciding the funding levels for each. The Finance Minister is responsible each year for presenting the government's budget. List of finance ministers ; Parties ! No. ! Portrait ! Name ! Took Office ! Left Office ! colspan="2", Head of Government , - ! , , , M. Saifur Rahman , April 1980 , May 1981 , style="background: ;" , , Ziaur Rahman (President) , - ! , , , Abul Maal Abdul Muhith , March 1982 , January 1984 , rowspan="2" style="background: ;" , , rowspan="2", ''Post abolished'' , - ! rowspan="3", , rowspan="3", , rowspan="3", Hussain Muhammad Ershad , rowspan="3", February 1984 , rowspan="3", March 1987 , - , style="background: ;" , , Ataur Rahman Khan , - , rowspan="3" style="background: ;" , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Seal Of Bangladesh
The Government Seal of Bangladesh ( bn, বাংলাদেশ সরকারের সীল ''Bangladesh Sarkarer Sil'') is used by the Cabinet of Bangladesh and the Government of Bangladesh on official documents. One version is used on the cover page of Bangladeshi passports. The seal features the same design elements as the first flag of Bangladesh in a circular setting. The outer white ring is shown with the caption of the official name of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh in Bengali: ''গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ সরকার'' with four red 5-pointed stars. In the centre is the country map on a red disc. History of the seal The seal was adopted as the National Emblem of Bangladesh by the Provisional Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh popularly known as the ''Mujibnagar Government'', which was the government in exile of Bangladesh based in Kolkata, India, during the Bangladesh Liberation War. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abul Maal Abdul Muhith
Abul Maal Abdul Muhith (25 January 1934 – 30 April 2022) was a Bangladeshi economist, writer, civil servant, secretary, diplomat and politician. He served as the Finance Minister of the government of Bangladesh from January 2009 until January 2019. Early life and education Muhith was born on 25 January 1934, to a Bengali Muslim political family in Sylhet. His father, Abu Ahmad Abdul Hafiz, a judge in profession, was one of the founders of the Sylhet branch of the All-India Muslim League and took part in the Pakistan Movement. His mother, Syeda Shahar Banu, was one of the leading women of the Bengali language movement. He was the third child in a family of fourteen children. His younger brother is AK Abdul Momen, the incumbent Minister of Foreign Affairs for Bangladesh, and his sister is Shahla Khatun, a physician and National Professor of Bangladesh. Muhith passed the matriculation exam from Sylhet Government Pilot High School in 1949. He secured first place in his Interm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Ministers Of Bangladesh
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 List of sovereign states, independent national governments and Governmental organization, subsidiary organizations. The major types of political systems in the modern era are democracies, monarchies, and authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. Historically prevalent forms of government include monarchy, aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, and Tyrant, tyranny. These ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheikh Hasina
Sheikh Hasina Wazed (''née'' Sheikh Hasina ; ; bn, শেখ হাসিনা ওয়াজেদ, Shēkh Hasinā, , born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Prime Minister of Bangladesh since January 2009. Hasina is the daughter of the founding father and first President of Bangladesh, President of Bangladesh, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. She previously served as prime minister from June 1996 Bangladeshi general election, June 1996 to 2001 Bangladeshi general election, July 2001. She is the longest serving prime minister in the History of Bangladesh (1971–present), history of Bangladesh, having served for a combined total of over 18 years. As of , she is the world's longest-serving female Head of government, Head of Government in history. Hasina's term as the Prime Minister witnessed worsening security situation that includes the Bangladesh Rifles revolt in 2009 which killed 56 officers of Banglades ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shah A M S Kibria
Shah Abu Muhammad Shamsul Kibria (Bengali: শাহ্ আবু মুহাম্মদ শামসুল কিবরিয়া ; 1 May 193127 January 2005), known as SAMS Kibria or Shams Kibria, was a Bangladeshi economist, diplomat and politician. Joining the Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1954, Kibria served in a number of diplomatic missions for Pakistan. In 1971, at the height of the Bangladesh Liberation War, Kibria, an ethnic Bengali, dissociated himself from the Pakistani foreign service and declared allegiance to the Mujibnagar government. After the independence of Bangladesh, he served as the Director General of the Political Affairs department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh and twice as the foreign secretary of Bangladesh. Between 1981 and 1992, Kibria was the Executive Secretary of UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). Kibria joined Bangladesh Awami League in 1992. He served as the Minister of Finance of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khaleda Zia
Khaleda Zia (; born Khaleda Khanam Putul in 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from March 1991 to March 1996, and again from June 2001 to October 2006. She was the first female prime minister of Bangladesh. She is the widow of former President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman. She is the current chairperson and leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) which was founded by Rahman in 1978. After a military coup in 1982, led by Army Chief General Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Zia helped lead the movement for democracy until the fall of Ershad in 1990. She became the prime minister following the BNP party win in the 1991 general election. She also served briefly in the short-lived government in 1996, when other parties had boycotted the first election. In the next round of general elections of 1996, the Awami League came to power. Her party came to power again in 2001. She has been elected to five separate parliamentary constituencies i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazi Zafar Ahmed
Kazi Zafar Ahmad (; 1 July 193927 August 2015) was a Bangladeshi politician of the Jatiya Party, who was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1989 to 1990. Early life Ahmed was born in 1939, in village: Kazi Bari Cheora Chauddagram Upazila, Comilla, British India (now Bangladesh), the son of Cheora Kazi Bari. He was a freedom fighter and a student leader at the University of Dhaka, where he obtained a M.A. degree in history. Political career Ahmed was a Maoist. From 1962 to 1963 he served as the General Secretary of the East Pakistan Chattra Union. In 1966 he joined the Maoist Communist Party and became a labour leader, mainly concentrating in organising the workers in the Tongi industrial area. During the Bangladesh Liberation war he worked for Mujibnagar government. After independence, he joined the National Awami Party of Maulana Bhashani and became its Secretary General. He supported the ideology of Islamic socialism by Maulana Bhashani. He declared that he would form a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Abdul Munim
Mohammad Abdul Munim is a former Minister of Finance of Bangladesh. Career Munim retired from Bangladesh Army as a Major General. In 1983, he joined the government of Hussain Mohammad Ershad as the Minister of Public Works. He was a close confidant of General Hussain Mohammad Ershad. Munim was the Minister of Finance under President Hussain Mohammad Ershad and Prime Minister Moudud Ahmed Moudud Ahmed (24 May 1940 – 16 March 2021) was a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician. He was a standing committee member of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Ahmed was elected as a Jatiya Sangsad member total five times from Noakhali-1 and Noakhali-5 ... from May 1988 to September 1988. In 1990, Munim was the Minister of Health and Family Planning. From May 1990 to December 1990, he again served as the Minister of Finance. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Munim, Mohammad Abdul Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Finance ministers of Bangladesh Jatiya Party (Ershad) politicians Banglad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moudud Ahmed
Moudud Ahmed (24 May 1940 – 16 March 2021) was a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician. He was a standing committee member of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Ahmed was elected as a Jatiya Sangsad member total five times from Noakhali-1 and Noakhali-5 constituencies. Ahmed served as the post master general of Bangladesh after independence. From the 1980s on he held numerous political offices for short stints in the Government of Bangladesh, including Deputy Prime Minister (1976–1978 and 1987–1988), Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1988–1989), Vice President of Bangladesh (1989–1990), and Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs (2001–2006). Early life and career Ahmed was born in 1940 in the Bengal Presidency during the British Raj. His father, Momtazuddin Ahmed, was a Sufi Islamic scholar and imam in Paribagh, Dacca, Maulana . Ahmed obtained his BA and MA in political science from the University of Dacca. He was called to the English Bar at Lincoln's Inn in London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wahidul Haq
Wahidul Haque ( – 3 July 2020) was the Finance Minister of Bangladesh. He was also an emeritus professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. Career Haq completed his master's degree at University of Dhaka in 1955 and did his PhD at Stanford University in California, USA. He was professor of economics at Islamabad University in 1969. He has taught at Dhaka University. He then taught at the University of California, Berkeley for a while, then joined the University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ... as a professor and settled there permanently. He was the finance minister during Ershad's rule from September 1988 to May 1990. Death Wahidul Haq died on 3 July 2020. References 1930s births 2020 deaths Finance ministers of Bangladesh Govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury ( bn, মিজানুর রহমান চৌধুরী; 19 October 1928 – 2 February 2006) was a Bengali politician, most notable for serving as Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 9 July 1986, to 27 March 1988. Personal life Chowdhury was born in Chandpur District, in what is now Bangladesh. In college, he was involved in student politics. His father was Muhammad Hafiz Chowdhury and his mother was Mahmuda Chowdhury. He went to high school in Nuria High Madrasa and went to graduate from Feni College in 1952. He was the headmaster of Bamni Junior High School in Noakhali district. He was selected to join the Provincial Public Service Commission and started in government service. He started Nuria High Madrasa in Chandpur as an English teacher after resigning government service. Chowdhury had a son, Abdullah Mizan. Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury died in February 2006 in Birdem Hospital, Dhaka. Career In 1944 he entered politics by joining the All Beng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ataur Rahman Khan
Ataur Rahman Khan ( bn, আতাউর রহমান খান; 1 July 1907 – 7 December 1991) was a Bangladeshi lawyer, politician and writer, and served as Chief Minister of East Pakistan from 1 September 1956 – March 1958, and as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 30 March 1984 to 9 July 1986. Early life Ataur Rahman Khan was born on 1 July 1905/1907 at Balia village, Dhamrai Thana, Dhaka District, East Bengal, British India. He pgraduated from Pogose School in Dhaka in 1924. He then graduated from Jagannath College in 1927. He obtained Bachelors degree in economics and law from the University of Dhaka in 1930 and 1936 respectively. Career Khan joined the Dhaka District Bar in 1937. He then joined the judicial branch of the Civil Service as a Munsiff in 1942 where he worked till 1944. He joined the Krishak Praja Samiti and served as the secretary of the Dhaka District unit. In 1944, he joined the All India Muslim League. He served as the Vice President of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
