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Abul Kalam Azad was India's first Minister of Education, and his birthday is now recognised as National Education Day across the country. Jalaluddin Ahmad, Bengali landlord, jurist and health minister; Aftab Ali, founder of All-India Seamen's Federation and vice-president of All-India Trade Union Congress; Aruna Asaf Ali, Indian independence ...
Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother. [4] His father Naimul Karim (Bengali: নাইমুল করিম) is a Bangladeshi who is a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German biochemistry scientist at the University of Minnesota. [5]
A very important person (VIP or V.I.P.) or personage [1] is a person who is accorded special privileges due to their high social rank, status, influence, or importance. [2] [3] The term was not common until sometime after World War II when it was popularised by Royal Air Force pilots. [1] [additional citation(s) needed]
Pal was born in 1764 in Calcutta, India.In 1800, at the age of thirty six, he dislocated his arm while doing carpentry work. He went to the missionary-doctor John Thomas, the first missionary to India from the Baptist Missionary Society, who told Krishna Pal, with the help of Joshua Marshman, of a "disease" they said was even more deadly—sin.
Sarkar is a surname among the people of the Indian subcontinent.It was an honorific title given to landlords/zamindars of East India, irrespective of their religious affiliation, under the Mughal Empire and even in Sher Shah's reign, as part of the erstwhile Persian nobility.
The BBC Bangla started to announce the top 20 names from 26 March declaring one name each day starting from 20th position. On 14 April, the final day, which was also the Pohela Boishakh (Bengali New Year's day), the BBC announced Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh, as the Greatest Bengali of All Time voted by Bengalis ...
In Amar Sonar Bangla, the national anthem of Bangladesh, Rabindranath Tagore used the word "Maa" (Mother) numerous times to refer to the motherland, i.e. Bengal. Despite her popularity in patriotic songs and poems, her physical representations and images are rare.
Pal, alternatively spelt Paul, is a common surname found in India and Bangladesh. It is traditionally believed that 'Pal' originated from the Sanskrit pala meaning protector, keeper, guard or herdsman. [1] [2] It is also occasionally found in other countries.