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Bangladesh is a unitary state [1] and the central government has the authority to govern over the entirety of the nation. The seat of the government is located in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. [2][3][4] The executive government is led by the prime minister, who selects all the remaining ministers. The prime minister and the other most ...
Bangladesh, [ a ] officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, [ b ] is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world and among the most densely populated with a population of 170 million in an area of 148,460 square kilometres (57,320 sq mi). Bangladesh shares land borders with India to the north, west, and ...
The history of Bangladesh dates back over four millennia to the Chalcolithic period. The region's early history was characterized by a succession of Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms and empires that fought for control over the Bengal region. Islam arrived in the 8th century and gradually became dominant from the early 13th century with the conquests ...
The 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement, also known as the July Revolution, [ d ] was a series of anti-government [ e ] and pro- democracy [ f ] protests in Bangladesh, spearheaded primarily by university students. Initially focused on restructuring quota-based systems for government job recruitment, the movement expanded against what many ...
The Supreme Court gave the verdict in the case of Bangladesh Italian Marble Works Ltd. v. Government of Bangladesh. While implementing the supreme court's verdict in the Fifteenth Amendment in 2011, the Awami League-led parliament abolished the caretaker government system, which the party itself had advocated in 1996.
Provisional Government of Bangladesh (1971–1972) 1 Tajuddin Ahmad (1925–1975) 1970: 17 April 1971 12 January 1972 270 days AL: Mujib I: People's Republic of Bangladesh (1972–present) 2 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920–1975) 1970: 12 January 1972 16 March 1973 3 years, 13 days AL: Mujib II: 1973: 16 March 1973 25 January 1975 Mujib III: 3 ...
The Border Security Force (BSF) is the Border Service branch of the Central Armed Police Force of India. It is a paramilitary responsible for guarding the border, particularly India’s borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh. It is under the command of the Ministry of Home Affairs and was formed in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 for ...
Muhammad Yunus [a] (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist, entreprenur, politician, and civil society leader, who has been serving as the 5th Chief Adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh since 8 August 2024. [1]