India, China, Japan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh took part.

Eight countries took part including India, China, Japan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Benaud took 4 / 69 and 4 / 42 in the First Test in Dhaka ( now in Bangladesh ), sealing Australia's first win in Pakistan.

The opening ceremony of the 2011 Cricket World Cup took place in Bangladesh at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka at 5: 30 PM on February 17, 2011 where cricketers were being brought by rickshaw.

As a member of the Non-aligned Movement Bangladesh never took any position in line with big powers.

Following Operation Searchlight and the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities, about 10 million Bengalis in East Pakistan took refuge in neighbouring India.

This included a best of 6-25 against Bangladesh, where Vaas also took a hat-trick with the first three deliveries of the Bangladesh innings.

The Six Day War between Arab countries and Israel, the Prague Spring and subsequent Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 leading to the birth of Bangladesh all took place during his tenure as secretary-general.

With the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent state in 1971, this Party took its present name of Communist Party of Bangladesh.

Communists were also took part in the other segments of the armed resistance fighters including the Freedom Fighters and the new Bangladesh Army.

Hasina took the oath as the prime minister of Bangladesh.

In August 2005, he played his first match after recovering from injury against Bangladesh A, and took 4-87 from 35 overs bowled over two innings.

The UNESCO General Conference took a decision to that took effect on 17 November 1999 when it unanimously adopted a draft resolution submitted by Bangladesh and co-sponsored and supported by 28 other countries.

The seventh edition took place in Bangladesh for the second time in 2000.

He took a new position with the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) department of the United Nations in Lesotho from 1981 to 1983, then worked again for SIDA from 1984 to 1987 in Bangladesh.

In January 2002, he took 7 wickets for 77 runs in the Test match against Bangladesh.

Khaleda Zia of the BNP took office as the first female Prime Minister of Bangladesh.

Politics in Bangladesh took a decisive turn in 1994, after Magura by-elections.

Hasina took the oath as Prime minister of Bangladesh.

The interim administration subsequently took steps to prevent Hasina's return to Bangladesh, with The New Nation newspaper reported on 17 April 2007 that airlines had been asked not to allow her to return to Dhaka.

The abolition of the zamindari system ( which divided the society into lords, owners of property, and commoners, users of property ) in Bangladesh after independence from Pakistan was a major landmark that took place immediately effective Jan 10th 1972 under a Presidential Ordinance, which became permanent under its new constitution April 10, 1973. In Bangladesh most Zamindars were given titles such as Chowdhury, Sharkar and Khan

Outside the East Indies, the Dutch East India Company colonies or outposts were also established in Persia ( now Iran ), Bengal ( now Bangladesh and part of India ), Mauritius ( 1638-1658 / 1664-1710 ), Siam ( now Thailand ), Guangzhou ( Canton, China ), Taiwan ( 1624 – 1662 ), and southern India ( 1616 – 1795 ).

The resulting outrage is in part responsible for the Bangladesh Liberation War.

* In Bangladesh, a municipality ( Pouroshobho ) is part of a upazila or subdistrict, which is in turn part of a district.

* 1975 – In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Col. Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brig.

* May 31 – The birth of Bangladesh is declared by the government in exile, in territory formerly part of Pakistan.

Prior to the creation of Pakistan in 1947, modern-day Bangladesh was part of ancient, classical, medieval and colonial India.

The borders of present-day Bangladesh were established with the partition of Bengal and India in 1947, when the region became East Pakistan, part of the newly formed Islamic State of Pakistan.

Vanga Kingdom ( also known as Banga ) was a kingdom located in the eastern part of the Indian Subcontinent, comprising part of West Bengal, India and present-day modern Bangladesh.

While western Bangladesh, as part of Magadha, became part of the Indo-Aryan civilization by the 7th century BCE, the Nanda Dynasty was the first historical state to unify all of Bangladesh under Indo-Aryan rule.

At 1, 052 meters altitude, the highest elevation in Bangladesh is found at Mowdok Mual, in the southeastern part of the hills.

In June 2003 the IMF approved 3-year, $ 490-million plan as part of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility ( PRGF ) for Bangladesh that aimed to support the government's economic reform program up to 2006.

Transport in Bangladesh is an important part of the nation's economy.

Bangladesh, which was part of British India until 1947, joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1972 after its establishment as an independent nation in 1971.

A Bangladeshi NGO, BRAC is a part of the reconstruction effort in Afghanistan particularly in microfinance and in 2007 the Afghan ambassador to Bangladesh, Ahmed Karim Nawabi had stated that Afghanistan is interested in recruiting manpower from Bangladesh.

Between the start of development cooperation in 1972 and the end of 2005, Bangladesh received approximately € 2. 3 billion in commitments from Germany as part of bilateral financial and technical cooperation, in addition of the funds provided by the German churches and NGOs.

Trade is the primary part of their relations exporting raw materials such as metals from its open mines and importing pharmaceutical products from Bangladesh.

Her release was part of a deal with the Japanese Red Army during the hijacking of a Japanese airliner to Bangladesh.

Bangladesh and Turkey cooperate with each other at the multilateral forum, particularly in matters related to elections.

In the recent years, Turkey and Bangladesh have supported each other in several forums, including at the ITU, IMO, CEDAW, HRC, etc.

Bangladesh and Venezuela have maintained good ties as both nations have begun increased communications with each other.

On the eve of independence in 1947, India ( including present day Pakistan & Bangladesh ) contained more than 600 princely states, each with its own ruler, often styled Raja or Thakur ( if the ruler were Hindu ) or Nawab ( if he were Muslim ), with a host of less current titles as well.

The Undergraduate admission test is one of the most intensive written examinations in Bangladesh as BUET only offers a limited number of seats in each academic year. For this reason the brightest students of Bangladesh get the chance to get admission to this university. After completion of higher secondary level ( HSC ) education, a student can submit her or his application for undergraduate admission if he / she fulfills the minimum requirements.

Ahead of the World Cup Bangladesh faced Zimbabwe in nine ODIs, Scotland in two, and Bermuda and Canada one each ; of those matches, Bangladesh lost a single ODI to Zimbabwe.

Bangladesh suffered defeat in each of the three Tests, losing by an innings on every occasion, and three ODIs.

In this meeting Bangladesh was divided into Eleven Sectors and each Sector was assigned a Sector Commander.

He top-scored in each innings, and although Bangladesh slumped to an innings defeat, Ashraful scored 114, and in the process became the youngest player to score a Test century, beating Mushtaq Mohammad's record, and was named man of the match.

From 2011 we are focussing our activities on India, and Bangladesh which between them account for more than half of the new leprosy cases each year.

Small populations ( in each case few hundred animals ) live also in eastern Bangladesh and in southwest China.

In 2002, India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh studied a proposal to create a free trade zone in the area which would enable all four countries to connect directly with each other without restrictions.

With two manufacturing facilities in India and one each in Bangladesh and Turkey, Tex is the first Indian owned multinational zipper manufacturing organisation.

The Bank has nine physical branches in Bangladesh, in Motijheel, Sadarghat, Barisal, Khulna, Sylhet, Bogra, Rajshahi, Rangpur and Chittagong, each headed by a General Manager ( the Motijheel branch, the HQ, has two GMs ).

Jahangirnagar University Campus, Dhaka, Bangladesh: [...] Especially, the public university, because of its goal as well as nature of the institute established and administered by local governments, has begun to offer opportunity of higher education and take the central role as informational and cultural center in regional community and has been expected to contribute to society, economics and culture in each community from now on.

The East Bengal Regiment is the largest formation of the Bangladesh Army, with battalions in each of the nation's fifteen infantry brigades.

Their final game, against Bangladesh, was hit heavily by rain: after originally being reduced to 41 overs a side it was ultimately decided that a maximum of 21 overs each could be played.

Of the total, IDA, ADB and OECD supplied $ 200 million each through a loan with 1 % nominal interest, and the remaining $ 96 million was borne by Bangladesh.

Capability development and training are managed by each Corps, and as such the Bangladesh Army is divided into the following administrative Corps:

Bangladesh played one Twenty20 International match each against Scotland and Netherlands there in July 2012.

Also, because partition divided Indian Muslims into three groups ( of roughly 150 million people each in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh ) instead of forming a single community inside a united India that would have numbered about 450 million people in 2010 and potentially exercised great influence over the entire subcontinent, the two-nation theory is sometimes alleged to have ultimately weakened the position of Muslims on the subcontinent and resulted in large-scale territorial shrinkage or skewing for cultural aspects that became associated with Muslims ( e. g., the decline of Urdu language in India ).

They are popularly credited as two key architects of modern Bangladesh and the rule of each was ended by assassination.