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1975 Ten years after starting the Bangladesh Television (BTV) station was finally shifted from DIT building at Motijheel to Rampura to modernise the facilities and broadcast technically developed programmes.
Google | Bangladesh Television Timeline | 1997 The top court ordered former President Ershad freed after 6 years of confinement for corruption and weapons charges.
Google | Hussain Muhammad Ershad Timeline | 1998 Freedom fighter Rafiqul Islam wrote a letter of proposal to Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the UN emphasizing the necessity of protecting and nurturing mother languages of the world.
Google | Bengali Language Movement Timeline | 2001 Petition challenging the Public Safety Act (PSA) filed with a High Court Division Bench by the activists of the main opposition Bangladesh National Party (BNP).
Google | Timeline | 2004 Home Ministry bans all publications of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Bangladesh a day before the end of an ultimatum given by the anti-Ahmadiyya alliance Hifazate Khatme Nabuwat Andolon (HKNA), represented by Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) leaders to declare the sect as 'non-Muslims'.
Google | Timeline | 2011 The stock market suffered the biggest one-day fall to date in its 55-year history when the General Index of Dhaka Stock Exchange slipped 600 points or 7.75 percent to 7,135 points.
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