Mansur Ali

The first Rastrabhasa Sangram Parishad (National Language Action Committee), an organisation in favour of Bengali as a state language was formed towards the end of December 1947. Professor Nurul Huq Bhuiyan of the Tamaddun Majlish convened the committee.

Hamburger Feuerkasse is the oldest insurance company in the world. 

Jashore is the first digital district in Bangladesh.

Bhutan

Bangladesh join the United United Nations peacekeeping mission in 1988 . 

UNESCO declared on 17 November 2015 that the International Day for Universal Access to Information will be marked and celebrated on 28 September every year. The 74th UN General Assembly proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) at the UN level in October 2019.

The first unit of the Payra 1320 MW Thermal Power Plant in Bangladesh began commercial power supply to the national grid in May 2020.

In Global Energy Transition Index 2024, the top most country is Sweden. 

Blue economy is of high priority for Bangladesh. The paper aims to highlight four priority sectors of Bangladesh's blue economy: exploration and exploitation of resources, furthering marine activities, protection of resources and technology acquisition.

"September on Jessore Road" is a poem by American poet and activist Allen Ginsberg, inspired by the plight of the East Bengali refugees from the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.