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Syed Shahed Reza
Syed Shahed Reza is the general secretary of the Bangladesh Olympic Association and former ambassador of Bangladesh to Kuwait and Yemen. He is a former president of Dhaka Club. Early life Reza was born on 1 January 1952. He has a bachelor's in political science and a master's in public administration from the University of Dhaka. His father in law, Syed Haider Ali, was a member of the first parliament of Bangladesh from the Awami League. Career Reza worked for Parsons Corporation in Saudi Arabia working at the Saudi Government Royal Commission for Yanbu Project. Reza joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 9 June 2009 with the rank of secretary; a part of a series of contractual appointments to top posts by the recently elected Awami League government. Reza was appointed ambassador of Bangladesh to Kuwait in August 2009 for a three-year term. He succeeded Major General A. I. M. Mostofa Reza Nur. He presented his credentials to the Emir of Kuwait Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh Olympic Association
Bangladesh Olympic Association (; IOC code: BAN) is the National Olympic Committee representing Bangladesh. It is also the body responsible for Bangladesh's representation at the Commonwealth Games. Its president is the General Waker-Uz-Zaman, OSP SGP psc (born 16 September 1966) a four star general of the Bangladesh Army who is also the current Chief of Army Staff (CAS). Bangladesh is the largest country by population that has not won a single medal at the Olympic Games. History Bangladesh Olympic Association was established on 1979. Saidur Rahman Dawn in 1984 competed in the Los Angeles Olympics becoming the first Bangladeshi to participate in the Games. It held its first annual general meeting in 2017. The General assembly was chaired by the president and 49 members of the assembly. Affiliated national bodies #Bangladesh Archery Federation # Bangladesh Athletics Federation # Bangladesh Badminton Federation # Bangladesh Basketball Federation # Bangladesh Amateur Boxing Federati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The ACME Laboratories Ltd
The ACME Laboratories Ltd. is a pharmaceutical company based in Bangladesh. It is part of the ACME Group of Companies. Mizanur Rahman Sinha is the managing director and largest shareholder of the company and Nagina Afzal Sinha is the chairperson. Corporate history *1954 Year of the establishment (initially as a partnership) *1976 The firm was converted into a private limited company *1983 Commercial operation at the modernized plant equipped with sophisticated and advanced facilities *1995 Company reaches golden jubilee Following regulatory approval in March 2019, ACME began exporting to the United Kingdom in December 2019. The next year, they entered the United States market by exporting Zolpidem, a generic sleeping tablet. The company set up a plant in the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) Industrial Park in Gazaria Upazila of Munshiganj District by March 2023, but was unable to start production for a year because of the lack of a natural gas connection. Titas Gas blam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladeshi Sports Executives And Administrators
Bangladeshis ( ) are the citizens and nationals of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centred on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the Bay of Bengal, eponymous bay. Bangladeshi nationality law, 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 List of countries by population, eighth most populous nation. The vast majority of Bangladeshis are ethnolinguistically Bengalis, an Indo-Aryan peoples, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassadors Of Bangladesh To Yemen
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also used informally for people who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities, and fields of endeavor, such as sales. An ambassador is the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital or country. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy (which may include an official residence and an office, chancery, located together or separately, generally in the host nation's capital), whose territory, staff, and vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, an ambass ... [...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] |
Living People
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1952 Births
Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the British Dominions: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, South Africa, Dominion of Pakistan, Pakistan and Dominion of Ceylon, Ceylon. The princess, who is on a visit to Kenya when she hears of the death of her father, King George VI, aged 56, takes the regnal name Elizabeth II. ** In the United States, a Artificial heart, mechanical heart is used for the first time in a human patient. *February 7 – New York City announces its first crosswalk devices to be installed. * February 14–February 25, 25 – The 1952 Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics are held in Oslo, Norway. * February 15 – The State Funeral of King Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Aquatics
World Aquatics, formerly known as FINA (; ), is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administering international competitions in List of water sports, water sports. It is one of several international federations which administer a given sport or discipline for both the IOC and the international community. It is based in Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Founded as FINA (; ) in 1908, the federation was officially renamed World Aquatics in January 2023. World Aquatics currently oversees competition in six aquatics sports: Swimming (sport), swimming, Diving (sport), diving, high diving, Synchronised swimming, artistic swimming, water polo, and open water swimming. from the FINA website (www.fina.org); retrieved 2013-06-05. World Aquatics also oversees "Masters swimming, Masters" competition (for adults) in its disciplines. History FINA was founded on 19 July 1908 in the Manchester Hotel in London, at the end of the 1908 Summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Husain Al-Musallam
Husain AHZ Al-Musallam (; born 19 May 1960) is a Kuwaiti sports administrator and former airline pilot. He currently serves as the Director General of the Olympic Council of Asia and the Secretary General of the Kuwait Olympic Committee. In addition to his roles within the Olympic movement, Al-Musallam is the President of World Aquatics. His career has been marked by controversy, notably his implication in international sports corruption scandals, including the FIFA bribery scandal. Early life and career Mussallam was born on 19 May 1960 in Kuwait. He joined the swimming club of Kazma Sports Club at the age of 8 and became a member of the national team at 13. Between 1974 and 1976, he competed in all Pan-Arab, Asian and World Swimming Championships. In 1978 he joined Kuwait Airways Corporation as a co-pilot and promoted to airline captain in 1988. He worked as a training and check captain since 1994. He joined the Olympic Council of Asia on 25 December 1982, and became Deputy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Envoy Group
Envoy or Envoys may refer to: Diplomacy * Diplomacy, in general * Envoy (title) * Special envoy, a type of diplomatic rank Brands *Airspeed Envoy, a 1930s British light transport aircraft *Envoy (automobile), an automobile brand used to sell British built Vauxhall and Bedford vehicles in the Canadian market *Envoy (WordPerfect), a document reader and document file format *Envoy Air, a United States regional airline *GMC Envoy, a make of automobile *Motorola Envoy, a personal digital assistant released by Motorola in summer 1994 *Envoy, web-service–proxy software that is part of Cloud Native Computing Foundation *Envoy, the call sign for United Kingdom airline Flyjet Culture * ''Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art'', an Irish magazine * ''The Envoy'' (Gavilán Rayna Russom album), 2019 * ''The Envoy'' (Polonskaya novel), a 1989 Russian novel by Elizaveta Polonskaya * ''The Envoy'' (Warren Zevon album), 1982 * ''The Envoy'', a 2008 spy novel by Edward Wilson * ''Der Gesand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Council Of Asia
The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) is a sports governing body, governing body of sports in Asia, currently with 45 member National Olympic Committees. Talal Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah was elected as President of the OCA on 8 July 2023. However, on 30 July 2023, the International Olympic Committee asked Randhir Singh (sports administrator), Randhir Singh, who was the acting president at the time, to continue as the Acting President of the OCA while the IOC investigated the OCA presidential election of 2023. On 13 October 2023, the IOC ethics committee asked the OCA to annul its 2023 elections due to Talal’s candidacy not fulfilling the eligibility conditions defined by the OCA Constitution and election interference by his brother Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah. The headquarters of the OCA is located at Kuwait City, Kuwait. History In 1948, during the 1948 Summer Olympics, Asian National Olympic Committees (NOCs) decided to organize the Asian Games, under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
