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Bangladesh's founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, as prime minister, with US President Gerald Ford at the Oval Office in 1974. Upon his release on 10 January 1972, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman briefly assumed the provisional presidency and later took office as the prime minister, heading all organs of government and decision-making. [ 1]
Bangladesh Armed Forces. The Mukti Bahini, [ a] also known as the Bangladesh Forces, was the guerrilla resistance movement consisting of the Bangladeshi military, paramilitary and civilians during the Bangladesh Liberation War that transformed East Pakistan into Bangladesh in 1971. [ 2] They were initially called the Mukti Fauj.
Bangladesh portal. v. t. e. The history of Bangladesh as a civilized nation goes back for more than four millennia to the Chalcolithic. The country's early recorded history is characterized by a succession of Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms and empires that fought for control of the Bengal region . Islam arrived during the 8th century AD and became ...
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 ...
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman[ c] (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), popularly known by the honorific prefix Bangabandhu[ d] ( lit. 'Friend of Bengal ' ), was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist and diarist. As a politician, Mujib had held continuous positions either as Bangladesh's president or as its prime minister from ...
The university was founded in 1921 under the Dacca University Act 1920 of the Indian Legislative Council. [6] Nawab Bahadur Sir Khwaja Salimullah, who pioneered the university in Dhaka, donated 600 acres of land from his estate for this purpose. [7] It is modeled after British Universities. [8] Currently it is the largest public research ...
Bangladesh has 55 [ 3] public universities to the bulk of higher studies students. These universities are funded by the government while managed as self-governed organizations. Dhaka Division is home to 14 public universities, among which 9 are in Dhaka City. There are nine public universities in Chittagong Division, the Khulna Division has ...
History of the University of Dhaka. The University of Dhaka was established in 1921 as the first university in East Bengal. Following demands from Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah Bahadur and others, Viceroy Lord Hardinge proposed on 2 February 1912, that a new university should be established in this partition of Bengal .