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Cygnus is an expendable American cargo spacecraft used for International Space Station (ISS) logistics missions. Cygnus was developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation, partially funded by NASA under the agency's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. To create Cygnus, Orbital paired the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, built ...
The 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement was an anti-government [ e] and pro-democracy [ f] protest in Bangladesh, spearheaded primarily by university students. Initially focused on restructuring quota-based systems for government job recruitment, the movement expanded against what many perceive as an authoritarian government when hundreds of ...
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
The first Bengali as well as the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913, was Rabindranath Tagore (born in British India, now India), in literature. [1] Later in 1998, Amartya Sen (born in British India , now India ) in Economics, in 2006 Muhammad Yunus (born in British India , now Bangladesh ) in Peace, [ 2 ] and in 2019 Abhijit ...
Hijra communities remain throughout modern states of Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh, although they continue to face social marginalisation and police abuse. [47] In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, hijras became the subject of more attention, being the focus of numerous documentaries, news features, ethnographies, monographs and ...
Bengal[ a] ( Bengali: বঙ্গ, romanized : Bôṅgo, pronounced [ˈbɔŋgo] ⓘ) or endonym Bangla ( Bengali: বাংলা, romanized : Bāṅlā, pronounced [ˈbaŋlaˑ] ⓘ) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.
Major General Abdul Motaleb Sazzad Mahmud - Director General, Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party ( DG Ansar & VDP) - 26th BMA Long Course, Infantry. Major General J M Emdadul Islam - Director General, Directorate General Defence Purchase (DG DGDP), Dhaka Cantonment, Dhaka - 26th BMA Long Course, Infantry.
The Indian cricket team toured Bangladesh to play two Tests and three One Day Internationals (ODIs) in December 2022. [1] [2] The Test series formed part of the 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship. [3] On 20 October 2022 Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) confirmed the fixture. [4] However, on 23 November, the venue of the third ODI was shifted ...