Bangladesh Export Import Company Limited, commonly known by its trade name BEXIMCO, is a Bangladeshi multinational conglomerate holding company, headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was founded in the early 1970s.
Channel 1 was a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable pay television channel owned by One Entertainment Limited, a sister concern of One Group. It was launched on 24 January 2006 and broadcast entertainment and news programming targeted toward all ages. Channel 1 was headquartered in the Uday Tower situated in Gulshan, Dhaka. As it was using rented broadcasting equipment, which was against Bangladeshi law, the channel ceased broadcasting on 27 April 2010 after being ordered by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.
Bangladesh Short Film Forum (BSFF) is an organization of young Bangladeshi film makers. It was formed on 24 August 1986 by a group of young independent filmmakers and activists who were then campaigning for creative and aesthetically rich cinema.
Islamic TV was a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable religious television channel launched in April 2007. It was headquartered in the Hatirpool neighborhood of Dhaka. One of the founders of the channel was its owner Sayeed Iskander, the younger brother of the former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.
Television is one of the most popular forms of media and information in Bangladesh. It was one of the first countries in South Asia to introduce television on 25 December 1964, in the then East Pakistan under the state-owned television network Pakistan Television Corporation in its capital, Dhaka. After the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, the Dhaka television station of PTV was renamed to Bangladesh Television, which had a monopoly on the country's television industry until 1997, with the launch of ATN Bangla on satellite television. Since then, the number of privately owned television channels saw a tremendous rise in the Bangladeshi television market.
Jamuna Future Park is a shopping mall in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was inaugurated on 6 September 2013. Construction began in 2002, by Jamuna Builders Ltd., a subsidiary of the Jamuna Group and the exterior was completed in 2008. It has a total floor area of 4,100,000 square feet (380,000 m2). It is the biggest shopping mall in South Asia, and the 24th biggest mall in the world.
Jamuna Bank PLC is a commercial bank in Bangladesh registered under the Companies Act 1994. Jamuna Bank had 132 branches as of March 2019. Its head office is located at Plot No. 14, Bir Uttam A. K. Khandaker Road, Block #C, Gulshan-1, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Jamuna Bank is a third-generation private commercial bank that was established by a group of local entrepreneurs. The bank, aside from conventional services, provides Islamic banking through designated branches. The Bank has real-time online banking branches.
Nurul Islam Babul was a Bangladeshi business magnate. He was the founder and chairman of the business conglomerate Jamuna Group.
Ahmed Akbar Sobhan is a Bangladeshi business magnate and Businessmen. He is the founder Bashundhara Group, which operates in the real estate, cement manufacturing, and Ship products,steel products, sports and shipping sectors.
Evercare Hospital Dhaka is a multidisciplinary super-specialty tertiary-care hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh and part of Evercare Group. It was previously called Apollo Hospital Dhaka.
Jamuna Television, commonly known as Jamuna TV, stylized as ᴊamuna|tv, is a privately owned Bangladeshi satellite and cable news and current affairs television channel. It is owned by the Jamuna Group, and was founded by the company's founder and former chairman Nurul Islam Babul in 2014. The channel's headquarters are located in the Jamuna Future Park Complex at Progoti Shoroni in Baridhara. On YouTube, Jamuna Television is the second most subscribed Bangladeshi YouTube channel after Somoy TV.
Ekattor TV is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable news television channel owned by the Meghna Group of Industries, commencing transmissions on 21 June 2012, as Bangladesh's first news-oriented television channel broadcasting in full HD. Ekattor is among the most popular news-oriented television channels in the country. The channel broadcasts from its headquarters in the Sohrawardi Avenue of Baridhara.
Nurul Islam Faruqi was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, businessman, politician and preacher. He was killed by unknown assailants in 2014.
Bismillah Group is terry towel producer and exporter that embezzled 9.9 billion Taka from five separate banks and is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. As of 2015 the banks are yet to recovery any of the stolen funds.
Joypurhat Sugar Mill is the largest government owned sugar mill factory in Bangladesh. It is located at the north-western Joypurhat district in Rajshahi division. It has the capability of thrashing 14,000 metric tons of sugarcane daily.
Salma Islam is a Bangladeshi lawyer, journalist, politician, and an incumbent MP from 12th parliament. She was an MP of Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad representing the Dhaka-1 constituency. She served as state minister of the Bangladesh government for Ministry of Women and Children Affairs. She is the Member of Presidium as well as current chair of Dhaka of Jatiya Party (Ershad). She has been made the new chairman of Jamuna Group after the death of her husband and the conglomerate's founder chairman Nurul Islam Babul.
2020 (MMXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2020th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 20th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade.
The Blockbuster Cinemas is a cineplex located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was opened on September 6, 2013. It is the largest multiplex in the country.
Gazi Group is a Bangladeshi diversified conglomerate based in Dhaka. The founding chairman of Gazi Group is Golam Dastagir Gazi, former Textile and Jute Minister of the Awami League government.
