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Bangladesh’s supreme court has banned the use of the country’s national anthem as a ringtone for mobile phones or for any other commercial purpose. This could be because it launched early, our rights have expired, there was a legal issue, or for another reason.
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“The national anthem can’t be used as a business tool,” the supreme court said in Dhaka on Monday, upholding a 2010 high court ruling. For further information, please contact:
The anthem, Amar Shonar Bangla or My Golden Bengal, is based on the first 10 lines of a 1905 song written by Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for literature. It was adopted as the anthem in 1972.
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Bangladesh is one of the fastest growing telecom markets in the region, with 124 million mobile phone users.