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Prostitution is legal in Bangladesh, but the Bangladesh constitution provides that the "State shall endeavor to prevent gambling and prostitution." Various provisions of different laws prohibit child prostitution, forced prostitution, solicitation and the keeping of unlicensed brothels . Vagrancy laws are sometimes used against prostitutes, and ...
The foreign relations of Bangladesh are Bangladesh's relationships with foreign countries. The Government of Bangladesh 's policies pursue a moderate foreign policy that heavily relies on multilateral diplomacy, especially at the United Nations (UN) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Since its independence in 1971, Bangladesh has stressed ...
Date Region Mag. MMI Deaths Injuries Comments Ref 2023-12-02 Chittagong: 5.5 M w : VI 0 200+ Minor damage 2021-11-26 Chittagong: 6.2 M w : VIII 0 5 Slight damage
Channel 24 was one of the nine Bangladeshi television channels to sign an agreement with Bdnews24.com to subscribe to a video-based news agency run by children called Prism in May 2016. The channel was the first in Bangladesh to introduce an AI news anchor, named 'Aparajita', who debuted on 19 July 2023.
The Bangladeshi taka ( Bengali: টাকা, sign: ৳, code: BDT, short form: Tk) is the currency of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. In Unicode, it is encoded at U+09F3 ৳ BENGALI RUPEE SIGN . Issuance of bank notes ৳ 10 and larger is controlled by Bangladesh Bank, while the ৳ 2 and ৳ 5 banknotes are the responsibility of the ...
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman [c] (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), popularly known by the honorific prefix Bangabandhu [d] ( lit. 'Friend of Bengal ' ), was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist and diarist. As a politician, Mujib had held continuous positions either as Bangladesh's president or as its prime minister from ...
The Rana Plaza collapse (also referred to as the Savar building collapse or the collapse of Rana Plaza) was a structural failure that occurred on 24 April 2013 in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka District, Bangladesh, where an eight-storey commercial building called Rana Plaza collapsed. The search for the dead ended on 13 May 2013 with a death toll ...
15 August 2024. ( 2024-08-15) Frequency. Annual. Started by. Government of Bangladesh. National Mourning Day of Bangladesh is celebrated as a national day in Bangladesh. On 15 August of every year, the day is observed with mourning. [1] The black flag is hoisted as well as the national flag is kept at half-mast.