Elias Hossain is a retired Bangladeshi footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He played for the Bangladesh national team from 1983 to 1989. He also captained the national team during the 1989 South Asian Games. Elias is also the only player from Gopalganj to play for the Bangladesh national team. He is currently working as an executive director for the Bangladesh Football Federation. Club career In
The Father of the Nation is an honorific title given to a person considered the driving force behind the establishment of a country, state, or nation. Pater Patriae (plural Patres Patriae), also seen as Parens Patriae, was a Roman honorific meaning the “Father of the Fatherland”, bestowed by the Senate on heroes, and later on emperors. In monarchies, the monarch is often considered the “father/mother of the nation”
Gangaridai (Greek: Γαγγαρίδαι; Latin: Gangaridae) is a term used by the ancient Greco-Roman writers (1st century BCE-2nd century AD) to describe a people or a geographical region of the ancient Indian subcontinent. Some of these writers state that Alexander the Great withdrew from the Indian subcontinent because of the strong war elephant force of the Gangaridai. A number of modern scholars locate Gangaridai in the Ganges Delta of the Bengal region,
Gopalganj Sadar (Bengali: গোপালগঞ্জ সদর) is an upazila of Gopalganj District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh. History Gopalganj sadar is the main town of Gopalganj District. 15 MPs are from there. It has 15 banks, including 3 commercial banks .It may take 2 or 3 hours to reach by road from Rajdhani after build the padma bridge (depending on traffic). After the
Gopalganj is a city in Gopalganj District in the Dhaka Division of Bangladesh. Spanning an area of 6.5 sq mi (16.9 km2), the city serves as the headquarters of Gopalganj District and Gopalganj Sadar Upazila. Demographics Religions in Gopalganj (2011) Religion Percent Islam 73.53% Hinduism 23.89% Christianity 2.52% Other or not stated 0.06% At the time of the 2011 census, Gopalganj Paurashava
Government Bangabandhu College (Bengali: সরকারি বঙ্গবন্ধু কলেজ) is a college in the southwest Bangladesh. It is located in Gopalganj City. History Campus of Govt Bangabandhu College Bangabandhu Sculpture The people of Gopalganj collected donations to fund the college. Khawaja Nazimuddin, the then Governor of Pakistan, once visited. He received a sizeable money gift. However, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman demanded that the money be used to
Christians in Bangladesh account for 0.30% (roughly 500,000 believers) of the nation’s population as of 2022 census. Together with Judaism and Buddhism (plus other minority religious groups such as Atheism, Sikhism, the Bahá’í Faith and others), they account for 1% of the population. Islam accounts for 91.04% of the country’s religion, followed by Hinduism at 7.95% as per 2022 census. Historical Christian Population Year Pop. ±% 1951 107,000 — 1961
Dhaka Division (Bengali: ঢাকা বিভাগ, Ḍhaka Bibhag) is an administrative division within Bangladesh. Dhaka serves as the capital city of the Dhaka Division, the Dhaka District and Bangladesh. The division remains a population magnet, covers an area of 20,508.8 km2 with a population in excess of 44 million, It is the most populous country second level division of the world, growing at 1.94% rate since prior count, compared with national average of
The 2022 Bangladeshi census was a detailed enumeration of the Bangladeshi population constituting the sixth national census in the country. It was scheduled to be held in June 2022, will be conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, and the reference day used for the census will be June 15, 2022. It was initially scheduled to be held in 2021 but was
Abdullah H. Baqui is a public health scientist who demonstrated the effectiveness of simple but effective strategies to reduce preventable newborn deaths. Biography Baqui was born and grew up in Gopalganj district in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). He graduated from Dhaka Medical College in 1976, and completed his Masters studies in Public Health (MPH) and Doctorate in Public Health (DrPH) from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School