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The Bangladesh famine of 1974 (Bengali: ১৯৭৪-এর দুর্ভিক্ষ, romanized: 1974-Ēr Durbhikkho) began in March 1974 and ended in about December of the same year. The famine is considered one of the worst in the 20th century; it was characterised by massive flooding along the Brahmaputra River as well as high mortality.
Sheikh Hasina Wazed[ a] (born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Bangladesh from June 1996 to July 2001 and again from January 2009 to August 2024. [ 3][ 4] She is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father and first president of Bangladesh. Having served for a combined total ...
e. The 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement, also known as July Revolution, [ d] was a series of anti-government [ e] and pro- democracy [ f] protests in Bangladesh, spearheaded primarily by university students. Initially focused on restructuring quota-based systems for government job recruitment, the movement expanded against what many ...
J&J said it will pay $600 million upfront, with potential payments of up to $1.1 billion contingent on regulatory and commercial milestones. The deal is expected to boost Johnson & Johnson's ...
Per Harvard’s study, nearly half a million raffle entrants, 75% were millennial or Gen Z, and more than 65% actually went on to vote. Washington, the actress and activist who played a political ...
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
July 31, 2024 at 3:19 AM. By Samia Nakhoul, Stephen Farrell. DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) -Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader who was killed in Iran, was the tough-talking face of the Palestinian group's ...
Bangladesh and Nepal are the main sources of trafficked children in South Asia. Bangladeshi women and girls are forced into the brothels of India, Pakistan, Malaysia, UAE and other Asian countries. [25] The United States Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons ranks Bangladesh as a 'Tier 2 Watch List' country. [24]