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Shawkat Hossain Hiron
Shawkat Hossain Hiron ( bn, শওকত হোসেন হিরণ) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and member of parliament for Barisal-5. Early life Hiron was born on 15 October 1956 in Patuakhali, East Pakistan, Pakistan. Career Hiron joined the Jatiya Party (Ershad) in 1986. He joined Bangladesh Awami League 1997. He became the president of the Barisal City unit of the Bangladesh Awami League in 2012. He was elected Mayor of Barisal City 4 August 2008. He lost the reelection of Barisal Mayoral election on 15 June 2013. He was elected member of parliament from Barisal-5 on 5 January 2014 uncontested. Personal life Hiron was married to Jebunnesa Afroz. Death and legacy Hiron died on 9 April 2014 in Apollo Hospital 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor Of Barisal City
Barisal City Corporation is a self-governed municipal administration in Bangladesh that administers and oversees development and maintenance works in the city of Barisal. The corporation covers an area of over 58 square kilometers in the Barisal district where over five million people live as permanent residents. The body was known as Barisal Municipality previously, until it obtained the City Corporation status by a ministry of local government declaration on 25 July 2002. History To provide civil service and facilities to the inhabitants, Barisal Town Committee was formed in 1969 under Act VI of 1868 (B.C.) with the District Magistrate as its Chairman. J. C Price was the first Chairman of the Town Committee. It was upgraded to Barisal municipality in 1876 under the Manicipal Act of 1876. It was then managed by a Committee, of which the District Magistrate was president, and was aided by Government with establishment grants. It remained as a municipality for over 130 years thoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barisal-5
Barisal-5 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Zahid Faruk of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Barisal City Corporation and Barisal Sadar Upazila. History The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Shawkat Hossain Hiron Shawkat Hossain Hiron ( bn, শওকত হোসেন হিরণ) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and member of parliament for Barisal-5. Early life Hiron was born on 15 October 1956 in Patuakhali, East Pakistan, Pakistan. Career ... died in April 2014. Jebunnesa Afroz, his widow, was elected in a June 2014 by-election. Shawkat Hossain Hiron, of the Awami League, was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. Elections in the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Majibur Rahman Sarwar
Majibur Rahman Sarwar is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) politician. He is the former mayor of Barisal City Corporation and former member of parliament for Barisal-5. Career Sarwar was elected to parliament from Barisal-5 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1991, 1998, 2001, and 2008. He is the Joint Secretary General of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. In 2018, Sarwar contested the Barisal City Barisal ( or ; bn, বরিশাল, ), officially known as Barishal, is a major city that lies on the banks of the Kirtankhola river in south-central Bangladesh. It is the largest city and the administrative headquarter of both Barisal Dist ... mayoral election but withdrew before the voting was completed alleging irregularities with the voting. He was nominated by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party to contest the 2018 General Election from Barisal-5. References Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians Living people 5th Jatiya Sangsad members 7th Jatiya Sangsad m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jebunnesa Afroz
Jebunnesa Afroz is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and Member of Parliament in the 10th session of the parliament. She was elected from Barisal-5. Biography Afroz was married to Shawkat Hossain Hiron. He was a politician of Bangladesh Awami League and Member of Parliament from Barisal-5 constituency of Barisal District. He died on 9 April 2014 and left the seat of Barisal-5 vacant. A by-election was declared for the constituency for which she announced her candidacy. She won the nomination of Bangladesh Awami League. She won the election on 15 June 2014. She received about 183 thousand votes compared to her opponent who received about six thousand votes, winning by a landslide. She was sworn in office on 22 June 2014 by the Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, the speaker of the parliament in the speakers office. On 8 July 2014 Bangladesh High court questioned the legitimacy of qualifications to be a candidate. Her opponent in the election, Saiful Islam Liton, from the Bangladesh N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 most densely populated countries in the world, and shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast; to the south it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. It is narrowly separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor; and from China by the Indian state of Sikkim in the north. Dhaka, the capital and largest city, is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Chittagong, the second-largest city, is the busiest port on the Bay of Bengal. The official language is Bengali, one of the easternmost branches of the Indo-European language family. Bangladesh forms the sovereign part of the historic and ethnolinguistic region of Bengal, which was divided during the Partition of India in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patuakhali
Patuakhali ( bn, পটুয়াখালী ''Potuakhali'') is a town and district headquarter of Patuakhali District located on the southern bank of Laukathi river in the division of Barisal in Bangladesh. It is the administrative headquarter of Patuakhali district and one of the oldest towns and municipalities in the country. Patuakhali municipality was established in 1892. The town covers an area of 27.03 km2 with a population of 65,000 according to 2011 census. Title There are different opinions about the origin of the name "Patuakhali". The general belief is that the name is derived from Bengali name "Patuar Khal" (Canal of Patua) which flows down the present Patuakhali municipality connecting the Bay of Bengal. It is said that at the beginning of the 17th century the Portuguese pirates used to make regular incursions to this area through this canal. The local people named it "Patuar Khal" which is now called "Patuakhali. Austric origin people are probably the fir ... [...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] |
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's Islam by country#Countries, second-largest Muslim population just behind Indonesia. Pakistan is the List of countries and dependencies by area, 33rd-largest country in the world by area and 2nd largest in South Asia, spanning . It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by India to India–Pakistan border, the east, Afghanistan to Durand Line, the west, Iran to Iran–Pakistan border, the southwest, and China to China–Pakistan border, the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the north, and also shares a maritime border with Oman. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollo Hospital Dhaka
Evercare Hospital Dhaka is a JCI accredited 425-bed multidisciplinary super specialty tertiary care hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh and part of Evercare Group. It was previously called Apollo Hospital Dhaka. History The hospital is located in Bashundhara Residential Area. In September 2015, Apollo Hospital was fined 1.6 million for having contraband pharmaceuticals. In December 2015, Apollo Hospital started online appointment and payment services. In 2016, the hospital carried out programs including one in Jamuna Future Park to raise awareness on the World Heart Day. On 12 March 2016, an autologous stem cell transplantation was carried out in the hospital, the first successful one in Bangladesh. STS Holdings, the holding company of the hospital, held roadshows, over plans to make the hospital go public, for institutional investors. On 3 March 2017, Shahriar Hasnat Tapu, a student of North South University North South University ( bn, নর্থ সাউথ বিশ্ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh Awami League
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 most densely populated countries in the world, and shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast; to the south it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. It is narrowly separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor; and from China by the Indian state of Sikkim in the north. Dhaka, the capital and largest city, is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Chittagong, the second-largest city, is the busiest port on the Bay of Bengal. The official language is Bengali, one of the easternmost branches of the Indo-European language family. Bangladesh forms the sovereign part of the historic and ethnolinguistic region of Bengal, which was divided during the Partition of India in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barisal City
Barisal ( or ; bn, বরিশাল, ), officially known as Barishal, is a major city that lies on the banks of the Kirtankhola river in south-central Bangladesh. It is the largest city and the administrative headquarter of both Barisal District and Barisal Division. It is one of the oldest municipalities and river ports of the country. Barisal municipality was established in the year 1876 during the British rule in India and upgraded to City Corporation on 25 July 2002. Barisal is Bangladesh's third largest information technology and financial hub. The city consists of 30 wards and 50 mahallas with a population of 328,278 according to the 2011 national census and with the voter of about 2.48 lakhs according to the 2018 voter list of city election. The area of the city is 58 km2. The city was once called the Venice of the East or the Venice of Bengal. History Barisal was conquered by Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji and was later a significant territory of the Delhi Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awami League Politicians
In Urdu language, 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 two major political parties of Bangladesh *National Awami Party, progressive political party in East and West Pakistan *National Awami Party (Bhashani), split-off from National Awami Party in East Pakistan *National Awami Party (Wali), Wali Khan faction of the National Awami Party was formed after the 1967 split in the original National Awami Party *National Awami Party (Muzaffar) or Bangladesh National Awami Party, political party in Banglades ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
