The Bangladesh Nationalist Party is a major political party in Bangladesh. Founded on 1 September 1978 by Bangladeshi president Ziaur Rahman with a view of uniting people with a nationalist ideology, BNP later became one of the two dominant parties in Bangladesh, along with its archrival Awami League. Initially a big tent centrist party, it later moved towards more specific centre-right spectrum.
Begum Khaleda Zia is a Bangladeshi politician, who served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006. She was the first female prime minister of Bangladesh and second female prime minister in the Muslim world, after Benazir Bhutto. She is the widow of one of the former President of Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman. She is the chairperson and leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) since 1984, which was founded by her husband in 1978.
Abdul Qasim Mohammad Badruddoza Chowdhury was a Bangladeshi politician who served as the President of Bangladesh from 14 November 2001 until his resignation on 21 June 2002. He was the founding secretary-general of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
The Bangla Academy is the official regulatory body of the Bengali language in Bangladesh. It is an autonomous institution funded by the Government of Bangladesh that fosters the Bengali language, literature and culture, works to develop and implement national language policy and conducts original research in Bengali. Established in 1955, it is located in the Burdwan House in Shahbagh, Dhaka, within the grounds of the University of Dhaka and Suhrawardy Udyan. The Bangla Academy hosts the annual Ekushey Book Fair.
Manikganj is a district in central Bangladesh and part of the Dhaka Division. It was established in 1845, it was a subdivision of Faridpur District until, in 1953, it was transferred to Dhaka District for administrative purposes. In 1984, Manikganj was declared a full district.
National Revolution and Solidarity Day is a commemorative and former public holiday celebrated in Bangladesh on November 7 to commemorate the 7 November 1975 Bangladeshi coup d'état by regular soldiers of Army and the common masses that showed solidarity with them.
Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yousuf was a Bangladeshi politician who served as government minister.
The Second Khaleda ministry was the Government of Bangladesh during the 8th legislative session of the Jatiya Sangsad following the 2001 general election. The cabinet took office on 10 October 2001 and left office on 29 October 2006. The Prime Minister and head of the government was Khaleda Zia.
The Fakhruddin Ahmed ministry was the fourth caretaker ministry in the history of Bangladesh which was formed on 11 January 2007 under the leadership of Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed. The caretaker ministry was formed on the background of the 2006–2008 Bangladeshi political crisis following a military coup, notoriously nicknamed "1/11" inspired by 9/11, led by General Moeen U Ahmed and the resignation of President Iajuddin Ahmed as the Chief Adviser. Ahmed appointed an team of thirteen advisers to form the government. During his tenure, many high-profile figures, most importantly the two dominant political party leaders Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina, were arrested as part of the emergency government's anticorruption crusade and its attempt to break the women's stranglehold on the country's politics. The attempt was controversially known as the "minus two" formula due to the aim being the exclusion of the two from further political participation.
An interim government led by the Shahabuddin Ahmed ministry was formed on 9 December 1990 in Bangladesh, following President HM Ershad's resignation on 6 December in the face of a mass uprising against his regime. Shahabuddin had taken office as the acting president of the country after he was unanimously agreed upon by the leaders of all political parties to be ceremoniously appointed by Ershad just before resigning as vice-president in place of Moudud Ahmed. He administered the oath of office to his council of advisers at Bangabhaban on 9 December 1990. During this period, he gave back freedom of the press by amending a number of law including the Special Powers Act.
The first Hasina ministry was the government of Bangladesh during the 7th legislative session of the Jatiya Sangsad following the 1996 general election; the 20-minister cabinet was formed on 23 June 1996 and dissolved on 15 July 2001.
Abdul Moyeen Khan is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician. He is a member of the current standing committee of the party. He served as the minister of state for planning, government of Bangladesh during 1993–1996, minister of information during 2001–2002 and the minister of science and information & communication technology during 2002–2006. He served as a member of the Bangladesh Parliament from 1991 until 2006.
Shah Moazzem Hossain was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the last deputy prime minister of Bangladesh. He was elected as the Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Rangpur-6 constituency as a Jatiya Party candidate in a by-election in September 1991 and served until November 1995.
2018 (MMXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2018th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 18th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2010s decade.
M Shamsul Islam was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician, a diplomat and a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Munshiganj-3 constituency for four terms. He served as the minister of information, land, commerce, food and post and telecommunications during the first (1991–1996) and second Khaleda ministries (2001–2006).
Shamsul Islam Khan was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Manikganj-4 constituency and a former minister of industries at the first Khaleda Zia cabinet.
The deputy prime minister of Bangladesh, officially Deputy Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh was the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the second highest ranking Parliamentary Leader of the Jatiya Sangsad. A Deputy Prime Minister might, in the absence of the Prime Minister, carry out the functions of the Cabinet as well as the responsibilities of any other independent ministry.
The Sayem ministry led what eventually became the first interim government in independent Bangladesh and an unofficial model for future interim regimes. It was formed on 8 November 1975, following the assassination of Brig. Gen. Khaled Mosharraf on 7 November amid a nationwide soldier and public uprising against his 3 November coup d'état. After a three-day coup with support of some high-ranking officers and his Dhaka Brigade, Mosharraf had forced Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, who, following the 15 August coup that assassinated the founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, replaced him as President of Bangladesh with support of the mid-ranking assassin officers, to resign. Chief Justice Sayem, with the constitutional requirement for the direct election of the president and role of the vice-president as acting president suspended by Mostaq under a martial law proclamation, had been installed in his place. With Mosharraf's death the responsibility of CMLA fell on Sayem.
Fasihuddin Mahtab, also spelt Fashiuddin Mahtab, was a Bangladeshi researcher, social worker and the secretary-general of BIRDEM and Diabetic Association of Bangladesh, as well as a member of President Ziaur Rahman's advisory council and later technocrat minister. He was also the son-in-law of BIRDEM founder Muhammad Ibrahim, who was also a member of the advisory council.
Akbar Kabir was a Bangladeshi social worker and an adviser for the information ministry in the advisory council of presidents Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem and Major General Ziaur Rahman from September 1976 to October 1977. He was also the brother of former Indian Bengali education minister Humayun Kabir and Congress politician Jehangir Kabir as well as the father-in-law of renowned Bangladeshi barrister Nazmul Huda, who has also served in the Ministry of Information during former prime minister Khaleda Zia's first ministry.
