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Many people in Bangladesh and West Bengal have two given names: a "good name" ( Bengali: ভালো নাম, romanized : bhalo nam ), which is used on all legal documents, and a "call name" or "nickname" ( Bengali: ডাক নাম, romanized : dak nam ), which is used by family members and close friends. The two names may or may not be ...
Abu Sayed (Bengali: আবু সাঈদ; died 16 July 2024) was a Bangladeshi student activist who was shot dead by the Bangladesh Police on 16 July 2024, [3] [4] [5] while participating in the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement.
Bangladesh (like Iran, China and North Korea) had banned Facebook before. [13] The ban operated for about a month, precisely from November to December 2015. [14] The Awami League-led government of Bangladesh announced a countrywide ban on Facebook and other social-network websites.
Facebook is a social networking service originally launched as TheFacebook on February 4, 2004, before changing its name to simply Facebook in August 2005. [1] It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. [2]
Bangladesh, [ a] officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, [ b] is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world and is among the most densely populated countries with a population of nearly 170 million in an area of 148,460 square kilometres (57,320 sq mi). Bangladesh shares land borders with India to the ...
The term Bengali is generally used to refer to someone whose linguistic, cultural or ancestral origins are from Bengal. The Indo-Aryan Bengalis are ethnically differentiated from the non-Indo-Aryan tribes inhabiting Bengal. Their ethnonym, Bangali, along with the native name of the Bengali language and Bengal region, Bangla, are both derived ...
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 ...
Bangladesh is the world's eighth most populous nation. The vast majority of Bangladeshis are ethnolinguistically Bengalis, an 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 ...