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The Bengali Calendar or Bangla Calendar ( Bengali: বঙ্গাব্দ, lit. 'Baṅgābda'), colloquially ( Bengali: বাংলা সন, romanized : Baṅgla Śon ), is a solar calendar [1] used in the Bengal region of the South Asia. A revised version of the calendar is the national and official calendar in Bangladesh and an earlier ...
The Bangladeshi calendar ( Bengali: বাংলা সাল, also called the Bangla Year) is a civil calendar used in Bangladesh, alongside the Gregorian calendar and the Islamic calendar. With roots in the ancient calendars of the region, [1] [2] [3] it is based on Tarikh-e-Ilahi (Divine Era), [4] introduced by the Mughal Emperor Akbar on 10 ...
2009 in Bangladesh. 2009 ( MMIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2009th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 9th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2000s decade. The year 2009 was the 38th year after the independence of Bangladesh ...
Bangladesh is elected to a two-year term on the UN Security Council. 3 June: Zia-ur Rahman wins presidential election and secures his position for a five-year term. 1979: 18 February: The 1979 General Election takes place. Bangladesh Nationalist Party led by Zia scores a decisive victory. [15] 1981: 30 May: Assassination of Ziaur Rahman. 1982: ...
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 ...
About (91.04%) of Bangladeshis are Muslims, followed by Hindus (largest-minority) at (7.95%), Buddhists (0.61%) and Christians (0.30%) and others (0.12%) as per 2022 census. Bangladesh has one of the highest population densities in the world. The total fertility rate (TFR) has been reduced by more than two thirds since Independence.
The 15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état was a military coup launched by mid ranking army officers in Bangladesh on 15 August 1975. The officers planned to replace the secular government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with an Islamic government led by Khandaker Mushtaque Ahmed .
Bangladesh has numerous public holidays, including national memorial, religious and secular holidays of Bengali origin. The Bengali traditional calendar, known as Baṅgābda is the national and official calendar in Bangladesh. The holidays are celebrated according to Bengali, Islamic or Gregorian calendars for religious and civil purposes ...