FOREIGN AFFAIRS

# South Asia Sub-regional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) countries -- Bangladesh, India Nepal and Bhutan.

# The permanent envoy of Bangladesh in UN is Dr. Abdul Momen.

# Permanent envoy in Geneva is Abdul Hannan

   Minister of Permanent mission in UN is Momtajuddin Ahmed.

# Currently one Bangladeshi has elected as a member of CEDAW – Ismat Jahan.

# Currently, Bangladesh has embassy in 47 countries.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

# Till 2010, 113 countries has accepted the independence of Bangladesh. Last in 1985 – Brunei.

# Currently, the envoy of World Bank in Bangladesh is Alen Goldstain.

# Current High Commissioner of Bangladesh-

   India- Rajeet Mitter

   Pakistan- M Ashraf Qureshi

   Srilanka- Sanath Viragoda

# New American ambassador in Bangladesh is Dan.W. Mojena.

# New British ambassador in Bangladesh is Robert  Winningson Gibson.

 # PEACE MISSION BY BANGLADESH:

1.      Initiate in 1988.

2.      Has sent till now 82,966

3.      Served 63 missions

4.      92 died and injured 106

5.      currently total-9549---- army-8082 and police-1372 in duty in 12 countries.

# Currently UN has 19 peace missions.

#  According to deployment of Army and Police in UN missions. The ranking-

1.      Bangladesh -10,574.

2.      Pakinstan

# SAARC Agricultural Information Centre (SAIC)- Dhaka

# SAARC Meteorological Research Centre (SMRC)- Dhaka

# SAARC Development Fund (SDF)- Thimpu, Bhutan

# SAARC Disaster Management Centre (SDMC)- Naya Delhi, India.

# SAARC University- Naya Delhi, India.

# Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed of the Maldives has been nominated as the next SAARC secretary general. She would hold the post for three years starting from March 1, 2011.

# First secretary general of SAARC was Abul Ahsan(Bangladesh)

# First chairman of SAARC was Hossain Mohammad Ershad(Bangladesh)

# Current chairman of SAARC is Zigme Y. Thinle(Bhutan) till the next SAARC summit.

# The 17^th SAARC summit, 2011 will organize in Male, Maldives.

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# Bangladesh has 51 chitmohol inside India.

SPORTS

# 12^th SA Games will organize in India.

# World T20 cricket, 2012 will held in Sri Lanka and 2014 in Bangladesh.

#  Monthly magazine “Wizden” has elected Tamim Iqbal as the test cricketer for the year of 2010.

OTHERS

# Global Peace Index –

Bangladesh – 87

First – Newzealand

Last- Iraq

# International Mother Language Institute (IMLI) is situated in Kakrail, Dhaka.

# Dr. Maksudul Alam is the leader of the team who invented the Life code of genom of jute.

# Current ranking of language-

1.      Chinese

2.      Spanish

3.      English

6.   Bangla

# National tree of Bangladesh is Mango.

# First Ediopolis City of Asia is Barisal.

# 2^nd Himalaya conqueror of Bangladesh is M.A.Muhit.