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Syed Mahibul Hasan
Syed Mahibul Hasan ( bn, সৈয়দ মহিবুল হাসান) was a Bangladeshi politician. He served as a Member of Parliament from the former Sylhet-16 constituency and later joined the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, serving as a minister under President Ziaur Rahman. Early life and family Mahibul Hasan was born into a Bengali Muslim family of Syeds in Narapati Haveli (uttar) in Chunarughat, Habiganj (then under Sylhet district). His paternal family trace their lineage to Ali, the fourth Caliph of Islam. Career Mahibul Hasan stood as a Muslim League candidate during an election in 1964 where he successfully won a seat in the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly. During the 1970 East Pakistan Provincial Assembly election, he contested as an independent candidate, losing to Awami League politician Manik Chowdhury. He competed in the 1979 Bangladeshi general election as an independent candidate, winning a seat in the Sylhet-16 constituency. He later joined the Bang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chunarughat
Chunarughat ( bn, চুনারুঘাট) is an Upazila of Habiganj District in the Division of Sylhet, Bangladesh. Geography Chunarughat is located at . It has 43660 households and total area 495.52 km2. History Rajapur (Tekarghat) in Chunarughat was the capital of the Hindu kingdom of Tungachal. Raja Achak Narayan was its final Hindu ruler who was defeated in the Capture of Taraf in 1304. Tungachal was renamed Taraf and its first Muslim ruler was Syed Nasiruddin, who is buried in the famous Murarband Dargah Sharif. Syed Shah Israil wrote the Persian book ''Ma'dan al-Fawaid'' in 1534, is considered to be Sylhet's first author. The Battle of Jilkua took place in Chunarughat in 1581 between the Taraf and Twipra kingdoms. The Khowai River was the only mode of transport and communication with other places. A ghat was situated in the river's western bank in the Borail mauza. A famous lime (known as ''chun'' in Bengali) trader had a business at the ghat which was famed throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh National Portal
Bangladesh National Portal is a national portal of the People's Republic of Bangladesh under Access to Information programme ran from the Prime Minister's Office of Bangladesh. The information portal aims to provide information about all national unions, upazilas An ''upazila'' ( bn, উপজেলা, upôzela, lit=sub-district pronounced: ), formerly called ''thana'', is an administrative region in Bangladesh, functioning as a sub-unit of a district. It can be seen as an analogous to a county or a ..., districts and divisions of the country. It was launched on 7 March 2015 as a web portal containing 25,043 sites of government bodies in various tiers. As of 2021, there are 1 million e-Directory and 46,000+ offices 2 million e-Service users/month and 5 million contents 10 lakhs+ officers and 60 million hits/months 1,000 innovation team and 100 thousand+ trained to update content References External links * {{Government of Bangladesh Bangladeshi websites G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chowdhury Abdul Hai
Chowdhury Abdul Hai is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party The Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( bn, বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল, Bangladesh Jātīyotābādī Dol; BNP) is a centre-right to right-wing nationalist, political party in Bangladesh and one of the major ... politician and a former member of parliament for Habiganj-3. Career Hai was elected to parliament from Habiganj-3 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1986. References Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians Living people 3rd Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Awami Party
The National Awami Party (NAP), translated from Urdu to English as National People's Party, was the major left-wing political party in East and West Pakistan. It was founded in 1957 in Dhaka, erstwhile East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), by Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and Yar Mohammad Khan, through the merger of various leftist and progressive political groups in Pakistan. Commonly known as the NAP, it was a major opposition party to Pakistani military regimes for much of the late 1950s and mid-1960s. In 1967 the party split into two factions, one in East Pakistan and another in West Pakistan. Led by Bhashani and other influential progressive leaders, NAP played an instrumental role in the secession of East Pakistan and the liberation of Bangladesh. After the death of Bhashani in 1976, the party lost much of its prominence on the Bangladeshi political scene. Many of its leaders became members of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Today, the liberal and progressive faction within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habiganj-3
Habiganj-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Md. Abu Zahir of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Habiganj Sadar and Lakhai upazilas. History The constituency was created in 1984 from a Sylhet constituency when the former Sylhet District was split into four districts: Sunamganj, Sylhet, Moulvibazar, and Habiganj Habiganj ( bn, হবিগঞ্জ) is a major town and district headquarters of Habiganj District in the division of Sylhet, Bangladesh. Population: Total population of Habiganj is about 95,000 Railroad *Habiganj Bazar–Shaistaganj–Ba .... Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Elections in the 2000s Shah A. M. S. Kibria was assassinated on 27 January 2005. Abu Lais Md. Mubin Chowdhury of the BNP was elected unopposed in April, after the four other candidates withdrew from the by-election scheduled for later that mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 7 May 1986. A total of 1,527 candidates contested the election. The result was a victory for the Jatiya Party, which won 153 of the 300 seats. Voter turnout was 61.1%. Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the winner of the previous elections, boycotted the election. British observers including a journalist termed the elections a "tragedy for democracy" and a "cynically frustrated exercise". Background In 1982 a coup d'état led by Army Chief Hussain Muhammad Ershad overthrew democratically elected President Abdus Sattar, suspended the Constitution and imposed martial law. Parliament was dissolved and all political parties were banned. Ershad appointed Justice A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury as President on 27 March 1982, a position which he held until December 1983 when Ershad assumed the presidency himself. In 1983 Ershad promised to hold presidential elections in May 1984 and to restore parliamentary government the following year. Howev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdus Sattar (president)
Abdus Sattar (1 March 1906 – 5 October 1985) was a Bangladeshi statesman. A leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), he served as the President of Bangladesh from 1981 to 1982, and earlier as the Vice President of Bangladesh. A jurist by profession, Sattar held numerous constitutional and political offices in British India, East Pakistan and Bangladesh. He was a cabinet minister, supreme court judge, and chief election commissioner. Sattar was one of the few executive presidents in the country's history. Beset by health problems and old age, his short lived presidency was marked by growing political turmoil and interference from the military. Sattar was overthrown in the 1982 Bangladesh coup d'état. Early life and career Sattar was born in 1906 in Birbhum in the then Bengal Presidency, British India. He obtained his LLB and Master of Law from the University of Calcutta and joined the Calcutta High Court Bar in 1931 as a junior in the Chambers of A.K. Fazlul Huq. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Labour And Employment (Bangladesh)
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The Ministry of Labour and Employment ( bn, শ্রম ও কর্মসংস্থান মন্ত্রণালয়; ''Śrama ō karmasansthāna mantraṇālaẏa'') is the government ministry of Bangladesh responsible for employment, to protect and safeguard the interest of workers and human resource development. Directorates *Inspector of Factories and Establishments *Child Labour Unit *Minimum Wage Board *Department of Labour References Labour and Employment Labour in Bangladesh 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 mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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General elections were held in Bangladesh on 18 February 1979. The result was a victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which won 207 of the 300 seats. Voter turnout was 51.3%. The Awami League became the main opposition party after winning 39 seats. With almost all parties participating, the elections were deemed credible by observers. Results References {{Bangladeshi elections General General elections in Bangladesh Bangladesh 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 mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manik Chowdhury
Manik Chowdhury (20 December 1933 – 10 January 1991) was a Bangladeshi politician and veteran of the Bangladesh Liberation War. He received the Independence Award in 2015 for his contributions during the conflict. Early life Chowdhury was born on 20 December 1933 in Bahubal Upazila, Habiganj District, Assam, British India. Career Chowdhury played a role in the Bangladesh Liberation War in the greater Sylhet region and helped organize the Mukti Bahini. He led the looting of Habiganj government arsenal and in early April took direct part in the Sherpur-Sadipur battle. He was awarded the title of "Commandant" despite being a civilian. Chowdhury was elected Member of the National Assembly from Habiganj in the 1970 general election. He was also elected Member of Parliament by the Awami League in 1973 and was also the Governor of Habiganj Sub-Division. He was the Agriculture Secretary of the Central Executive Parliament of the Awami League. After the assassination of President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awami League
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 Banglad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
