Rapid Action Battalion or RAB, is an anti-crime and anti-terrorism unit of the Bangladesh Police. This elite force consists of members of the Bangladesh Army, Bangladesh Police, Bangladesh Navy, Bangladesh Air Force, Border Guard Bangladesh, Bangladesh Civil Service and Bangladesh Ansar. It was formed on 26 March 2004 as RAT, and commenced operations on 14 April 2004. From 2004 to 2008 RAB had killed 1,062 people.
Bangladesh Television, commonly known by its acronym BTV, is the state-owned television network of Bangladesh. The network was originally established as the East Pakistan branch of PTV in 1964. It is the oldest Bengali-language television network in the world, and is the sister to the radio broadcaster Bangladesh Betar, which, along with BTV, are both owned and operated by the government.
The passport of Bangladesh is an ICAO compliant, machine-readable and biometric e-passport issued for the purpose of travel to foreign countries by the passport holder. Bangladesh is the first country in South Asia to issue e-passports for all eligible citizens. The passport booklet is manufactured, printed and issued by the Department of Immigration & Passports of the Ministry of Home Affairs. This electronic microprocessor chip embedded e-passport has forty-one different security features, including holographic images embossed in thin-film laminate, which change colour under light and appear to move. Demographic and biometric information of the e-passport holder are stored on the chip inside the e-passport. This information includes the fingerprints of all ten fingers of the passport holder; the iris scan of both eyes; a color photograph of the face of the bearer; their digital signature; etc. Depending on the age of the applicant, the e-passport is valid for either five years or ten years and it is distributed by the Government of The People's Republic of Bangladesh, or by any of its overseas diplomatic missions, to eligible Bangladeshi nationals who are citizens by birth, by descent or through naturalization.
The mass media in Bangladesh refers to the print, broadcast and online mass media available in Bangladesh. The Constitution guarantees press freedom and freedom of expression within "reasonable restriction", though some media outlets have been harassed. The Bangladeshi media's rank is dropped to 146 in 2018 from its position of 144 in 2016 out of total 180 countries on the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index, with 1st being most free.
Visa requirements for Bangladeshi citizens are administrative entry restrictions imposed on citizens of Bangladesh by the authorities of other countries. As of 2 July 2019, Bangladeshi citizens who hold regular or ordinary Bangladeshi passports have visa free or visa on arrival access to 41 countries and territories, ranking the Bangladeshi passport 101st in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index. Bangladeshi citizens who hold Diplomatic passports and/or Official passports of Bangladesh have visa free or visa on arrival access to many more countries.
Walton is a Bangladeshi conglomerate based in Gazipur, Bangladesh. It comprises numerous subsidiaries and affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Walton brand. The subsidiaries include Walton Motors, Walton Mobile, Walton Electronics, and Walton Hi-Tech Industries Limited. Walton produces electronics, computers, motor vehicles, and telecommunications products. It is the first Bangladeshi brand to launch mobile phones in the market and also the first fridge compressor manufacturing company in Bangladesh since 2017.
Bikroy.com is a classified advertisements website operating in Bangladesh. Bikroy.com is available in English and Bengali.
Sylhet District Stadium is located in Rekabi Bazar, Sylhet, Bangladesh with a capacity of 15,000. It is a multipurpose stadium mostly used for football and cricket. The stadium is currently the home venue for Abahani Limited Dhaka and Rahmatganj MFS.
The electronics industry in Bangladesh is one of the fastest-growing industries in the country with great potential. Popular Bangladeshi electronics brands include Walton Electronics, Singer Bangladesh, Jamuna Electronics, Vision Electronics. Local companies such as Fair Group, Butterfly Group, Electra, Rangs Group, Electro Mart, and Transcom Group manufacture and assembles Electronics Home Appliances in collaboration with foreign brands such as Samsung, Whirlpool, LG, Sony, Gree, Konka, and Sharp.
Avijit Roy was a Bangladeshi-American engineer, online activist, writer and blogger known for creating and administrating the Mukto-Mona, an Internet community for Bangladeshi freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, atheists and humanists. Roy was an advocate of free expression in Bangladesh, coordinating international protests against government censorship and imprisonment of atheist bloggers. He was hacked to death by machete-wielding assailants in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 26 February 2015; Islamic militant organization Ansarullah Bangla Team claimed responsibility for the attack.
The 2017 Federation Cup also known as Walton Federation Cup 2017 due to the sponsorship from Walton was the 29th edition of the tournament. A total of 12 teams competed in this tournament. Dhaka Abahani was the winner of previous edition of the tournament.
The 2018 Independence Cup, also known as Walton Independence Cup 2018 or Walton Independence Cup Football Tournament 2018 due to the sponsorship from Walton Group, was the 10th edition of the Independence Cup, the main domestic annual club football tournament organized by Bangladesh Football Federation. Thirteen participants competed in the tournament.
Jagonews24.com is an online Bengali language news portal in Bangladesh. Launched on 10 May 2014, the portal is owned by AKC Private Limited. As of July 2021, Alexa ranked the website 1,603 worldwide and 8th in Bangladesh which is the 13th among the news-related websites in Bangladesh.
The 2020 Bangabandhu National Football Championship, also known as 2020 Walton National Football Championship, is the sixth edition of the National Football Championship, the premier competition in Bangladesh for teams representing districts and government institutions. It is organized and hosted by the Bangladesh Football Federation. A total of 78 participants nation-wide will participate in the tournament. The format of the tournament changed in this edition as it is no more a top division league and resuming after 13 years.
Bangla Tribune is a Bengali language news website of Bangladesh. It started its journey on 13 May 2014. It's edited by Zulfiqer Russell and published by Kazi Anis Ahmed. As of July 2021, its Alexa ranking was #16 in Bangladesh and #3,064 globally.
Satpur Kamil Madrasah is an educational institution situated in Lamakazi at Bishwanath upazila, Sylhet. The madrasah is run under "Alia madrasah" curriculum up to kamil level. In 2017, Honours course was started besides regular curriculum under the affiliation of “Islamic Arabic University“,Dhaka. Among the 4.38 acres of total registered land only 1.65 acres are used as main academic area of the madrasah with current number of students being over 1500. A reconstruction project of the age-old educational building starting in 2016, has recently come to an end.
M. Shamshul Haque was an academic from Bangladesh who was the 19th Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University and an advisor to the Caretaker government of Bangladesh in 1996.
Dhaka Post is a Bengali and English language online news media in Bangladesh. Launched on 16 February 2021, As of December 2021, Alexa ranked the website 3,479 worldwide and sixth in Bangladesh which is the second among the News websites and first position Internet-based newspaper in Bangladesh.
Tagore University of Creative Arts is a private university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The vice-chancellor of the university is Syed Mohammad Shahed.
Ajker Patrika is a Bengali-language daily newspaper that is published in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The newspaper started publishing on June 27, 2021. Professor Dr. Golam Rahman is the editor of Ajker Patrika. As of September 2022, the circulation of Ajker Patrika is around 1,08,100.
