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		The area generally understood as the western portion of the South-Western Coastal Region of Bangladesh consists of the districts of Satkhira, Khulna and Bagerhat and the southern portion of Jessore district.
		Bagerhat Mollahat, Chitalmari and the northern portions of
		The phenomenon of water-logging was first experienced in the fresh-water areas in the north, such as in Mollahat, Chitalmari and parts of Fakirhat in Bagerhat district, Terokhada and parts of Dumuria in Khulna district and Keshabpur, Monirampur and Abhoynagar in Jessore district.
	www.cdp.20m.com /shrimp.html (5769 words)

	Bangladesh: UNESCO Culture Sector
		The International Safeguarding Campaign for the Historic Monuments of Paharpur and Bagerhat, Bangladesh, was launched by the UNESCO Director-General, in Paris on 13 June 1985.
		The Director-General was authorized by the UNESCO General Conference at its 21st Session in 1980 and the Executive Board at its 116th Session in 1983 to launch an appeal for international solidarity.
		This comprehensive Plan addresses several issues, such as an increase in historical awareness, the promotion of artistic craftsmanship and tourism, archaeological recording and documentation, and the legal and administrative protection of heritage buildings, the environment and museum objects.
	portal.unesco.org /culture/en/ev.php@URL_ID=2671&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html (548 words)

	AsiaMedia :: BANGLADESH: 7 journos get death threats in Bagerhat
		Seven journalists of Bagerhat have received separate anonymous letters in which they have been given death threats for writing against BNP lawmaker MAH Selim, also president of the party's district unit.
		The journalists are Hasanul Qaiyum of the Manabzamin, Ahad Haider of the Prothom Alo, Rob Molla of the Janmabhumi, Babul Sarder of the Janakantha, Nihar Saha of NNB, Zakaria Mahmud of the Amar Desh and Azadul Huq of the Sangbad.
		Bagerhat Press Club Secretary Babul Sarder yesterday filed a general diary in this connection with the Sadar Police Station, seeking security of lives of the journalists.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article-southasia.asp?parentid=29226 (281 words)

	UN News - World Heritage Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Situated in the suburbs of Bagerhat, at the meeting-point of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, this ancient city, formerly known as Khalifatabad, was founded by the Turkish general Khan Jahan Ali in the 15th century.
		Bagerhat has more historical monuments in its surrounding area, mostly mosques, than any other city in Bangladesh, except Dhaka.
		The main mosques, all built in the middle of the 15th century, are in one long area, starting about 4 km west of Bagerhat, which is on the Bhairab River.
	www.un-bd.org /unwa/HomePage/Publications/womun-vol27/0212/p12-sites.htm (515 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 149 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Bagerhat Awami League leader Advocate Kalidas Boral murder case has been sent back to the Bagerhat District and Sessions Judge's Court on Tuesday as the Khulna Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal could not complete trial in 135 workdays as per rule, sources said.
		Judge of the Tribunal MA Samad told this correspondent that trial of the case could not be completed within the stipulated time as the investigation officer (IO) had failed to produce prosecution witnesses before the tribunal on the different fixed dates for hearing.
		Advocate Kalidas Boral, senior vice-president of Bagerhat district Awami League and Bagerhat District Puja Udjapan Parishad President, was gunned down on August 20 in 2000.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/10/21/d41021100276.htm (262 words)

	BANGLADESH: Gang rape of a minority woman in Bagerhat district
		The police conducted a forensic examination of her on the same date, although the concerned medical doctors of the Bagerhat Sadar Hospital have not yet prepared the report.
		I am appalled to learn that a woman belonging to a minority community was allegedly raped by a group of men in Shailabunia village, Bagerhat district on 30 October 2005.
		I have learned that the victim, accompanied by her husband, was on her way home after making a phone call to her son when the alleged perpetrators, identified as Kachi Munshi, Al Amin and four other persons, blocked her way.
	www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2006/1458 (1404 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 33 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		She said her government was forced to launch last year's joint operation as the Awami League had fostered a reign of terror during their last regime through patronising 'god-fathers' who spawned crime and anarchy across the country.
		The prime minister said Awami League men were involved in the killing of Kali Das Boral of Bagerhat during their last government and the trial for the murder case was not held.
		A total of 15 women and children from Jessore, Khulna, Magura, Satkhira and Bagerhat jails were brought to the shelter for safe custody.
	www.thedailystar.net /2003/06/29/d3062901033.htm (658 words)

	Growfish - Gippsland Aquaculture Industry Network (GAIN) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Eighty per cent of demonstration ponds of the ATDP in Bagerhat have yielded about 1,300 kg of shrimps against the existing national average of less than 200 kg.
		The survival rate of shrimps in the new system is 63 per cent on an average in the new system while it is mere 25 per cent in the present system.
		Visiting the ponds at Bagerhat, about 400 kilometres away from the capital city Wednesday, this correspondent found the new cultivation system in which 'closed fresh water' is used.
	www.growfish.com.au /content.asp?ContentId=2089 (470 words)

	Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Report of the 9th Session of the Committee
		Situated in the suburbs of Bagerhat, at the meeting-point of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, this ancient city, formerly known as Khalifatabad, was founded by the Turkish general Ulugh Khan Jahan in the 15th century.
		International Safeguarding Campaign for the Historic Monuments of Paharpur and Bagerhat (UNESCO Division of Cultural Heritage)
	whc.unesco.org /sites/321.htm (84 words)

	Khan Jahan Ali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Khan Jahan Ali (Bangla: খান জাহান আলী) (died 25 October 1459), also known as Ulugh Khan and Khan-i-Azam, was a Muslim Saint and local ruler in Bagerhat (now in Bangladesh).
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		Bagerhat Shat Gambuj Masjid (60 dome mosque), built by Khan Jahan Ali
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khan_Jahan_Ali (118 words)

	Crime News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Gazipur police with the cooperation of Bagerhat police arrested Shahidul and Nur as per information given by JMB commander Enayet, who was arrested in connection with the suicide bombing on the Gazipur district court premises.
		During interrogation by police, Shahidul admitted his involvement in the bomb attack on the Gazipur court premises.
		After interrogation, Bagerhat police handed over Shahidul, son of Abdul Wahab Munshi of Sarulia in Mollahat upazila, and Nur, son of Abdul Alim Sheikh of the same area, to Gazipur police.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/jan/28/28012006cr.htm (177 words)

	II Journal: Title
		Cities such as Bagerhat drew upon a large countryside and served as points of commerce and government with far-reaching effects.
		In the humid Bengal environment, numerous climatological factors affect the preservation of archaeological remains, such as rising damp and salt efflorescence, which causes destructive salt crystals to form on the walls of standing structures.
		While large sites such as Mahasthangarh, Paharpur and Bagerhat are actively protected, many smaller sites are rapidly disappearing from the landscape as farmers remove smaller mounds to recover building material and enlarge their agricultural fields.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol7no2/smith.htm (1641 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Bangladesh: Tornado Information Bulletin No. 2
		The tornado that struck Sharankhola upazila (sub-district) in Bagerhat caused the deaths, injuries and damage to property.
		In Bagerhat district, according to the joint Federation/Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) assessment t e am, most deaths and injuries were caused by flying debris and collapsed houses in the villages.
		This was distributed among 200 families in th e local areas (known as "unions") of Dhanshagar, Rayenda and Khontakata) on th e 6tho f March.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6MQ2ZD?OpenDocument (931 words)

	The Bangladesh Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Bagerhat, December 14 : In its efforts to protect the Sundarbans, the government has supplied 350 modern automatic firearms for the guards of the mangrove forest.
		Forest Department sources said the firearms and ammunition are now under the custody of Khulna and Bagerhat police.
		These would be handed over to the Sundarbans East and West zones after completion of training of the forest guards on the operation and upkeep of the modern weapons.
	www.bangladeshjournal.com /index.php?ID=3161 (221 words)

	NFB - Arsenic panic in Bagerhat - 08 May 2001
		People in Bagerhat district are poised to embrace the worst pure water crisis in history as arsenic continues to contaminate groundwater.
		According to a survey, 80 per cent tube-wells in the district have been detected with high prevalence of arsenic, posing a serious threat to public health.
		Upazila Public Health Engineer M Qudrut-e-Khuda said with the assistance of UNICEF a programme has been taken up to install 67 arsenic-free deep tube-wells and 112 shallow tube-wells in different areas of the upazila.
	bicn.com /acic/resources/infobank/nfb/2001-05-08-lv4n560.htm (383 words)

	Country News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		July 27: A total of 279 fish depots have been shut down in Khulna and Bagerhat districts while task force launched drives in order to combat disaster in the shrimp processing plants.
		It is learnt from Fish Directorate that the depots were shut down due to their unhygienic conditions and pushing foreign goods for enhancing weights.
		An EC team will visit Bangladesh in next November and this team will also extend their tour to greater Khulna as half of the total exported shrimp and prawn are produced from this zone which includes Bagerhat and Satkhira districts.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/jul/28/28072005ct.htm (3021 words)

	NFB - Arsenic contaminating groundwater in Bagerhat - 16 May 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		BAGERHAT, May 15: Local people are poised to embrace the worst pure water crisis in history as arsenic continues to contaminate groundwater of the district, reports UNB.
		According to a survey, 80 per cent tubewells in the district have been detected with high prevalence of arsenic, posing a serious threat to public health.
		Meanwhile, most water bodies of the district dried up due to prolonged drought.
	bicn.com /acic/resources/infobank/nfb/2001-05-16-lv4n568.htm (136 words)

	Sundarbans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		1459), the patron saint of Bagerhat in Khulna District.
		To architectural historians, Khan Jahan is renowned as the builder of the famous Saithgumbad Mosque, an immense structure measuring 48 by 32.5 meters in area and consisting of sixty-seven domes.
		Two dimensions of Khan Jahan's career that have passed into local traditions are, therefore, highly significant: first, that he is specifically identified with the clearing of jungle preparatory to rice cultivation; and, second, that he is locally revered as a Muslim saint and credited with the conversion of the local population to Islam.
	www.smartoffice.com /Tiger/Eaton.html (6253 words)

	A journalist viciously beaten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Reporters Without Borders reiterated its fears about the safety of journalists in Bangladesh today after seven journalists in the southern city of Bagerhat received identical letters on 24 August threatening them with violence if they continued to criticise Mah Selim, a parliamentary representative of the ruling Bangladesh National Party (BNP).
		The targeted journalists had all reported on 17 August that two young sisters were tortured in an unoccupied house belonging to Selim.
		Bagerhat press club general secretary Babul Sarder filed a complaint about the threats at the city’s police station and demanded police protection.
	www.albd.org /humanright/rsf/2005/02092005_ruling.htm (224 words)

	Pallitathya
		D.Net organized an Education Camp at Chadpai Union Parishad, Mongla, adjacent to Bagerhat Pallitathya Kendra on June 27, 2006.
		Aim of this camp was to increase accessibility of educational information for rural students and promote educational information service provided through the Pallitathya Kendra and Help Line.
		At the first session organizations like BLAST, Legal Aid Unit of BRAC and NLAO(National Legal Aid Organization) were invited to provide free legal advice and legal aid service to the local people.
	pallitathya.org (130 words)

	Meet Bangladesh - Khulna
		The place was inside the inhospitable Mangrove forest of the Sundarbans near the coast of Bay of Bengal.
		He laid the nucleus of an affluent city at Bagerhat in the mid-fifteenth century, during the reign of Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah (14421459).
		He adorned his city with numerous mosques, tanks, roads and other public buildings, the spectacular ruins of which are focused around the most imposing and largest multi-domed mosque in Bangladesh, known as the Shat-Gambuj Masjid.
	www.bdcom-online.com /tourplan/khulna.htm (405 words)

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		A young man was killed in Khulna city on Saturday night while an alleged member of an extremist group was beaten to death in Bagerhat on Sunday.
		The deceased are Ruhul Amin Babu, 24, of TB Cross Road in Khulna city and Ripon Sheikh, 25, of village Baliadanga under Fakirhat upazila in Bagerhat.
		In Bagerhat, local people enclosed the house of Ripon Sheikh, a suspected member of an extremist gang, when he returned to his village home at Fakirhat on Sunday morning.
	www.bangladesh-web.com /view.php?hidDate=2004-04-19&hidType=LOC (205 words)

	D.Net - Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Both two phases of FGD will be in the same day in one area (preferably women focused FGD in the morning and general FGD for male and female in the afternoon).
		In the general FGD, general problems of the village and the aspects which will not be covered in the baseline survey will be discussed.
		Date: 14 Aug — 16 Aug. FGD of Bagerhat will be on 14 th of August and in Nilphamari will be on 16 th of August.
	www.dnet-bangladesh.org /events.html (417 words)

	Probe into allegation of corruption against judge begins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Khulna District and Sessions Judge AKM Shah Newaz Hossain at the directive of the High Court visited Bagerhat and took depositions from a number of lawyers at the chamber of sub-judge of Bagerhat.
		More than 150 senior lawyers, including president of Bagerhat District Bar Association brought various allegations against the Judge, which include corruption, bias and taking bribe.
		The learned Judge took witnesses of some 18 to 20 lawyers of locality sitting at the chamber of Sub-Judge of Bagerhat.
	nation.ittefaq.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/24/14087/printer (119 words)

	The Human Rights Tribune: A HRCBM Publication
		We also got three more incident of repressions on Hindus,one is in Sultanpur village another is in Fatepur village and another is in Bishnupur village within Bagerhat district after reaching at Bagerhat “Ramkrishna Mission” which was not published in the dailies.
		Picture: While Prof Taru of HRCBM gives assurance to the family of pursuing the legal action, other advocates of HRCBM is listening to the statements of victims.
		March,2003 and met with the “Maharaj” of Ramkrishna Mission at Bagerhat who apprised us the overall situation of Bagerhat and before proceeding towards Komarpur,Thakurbari we talked with the Supdt.of Police, and Deputy Commissioner Bagerhat to know the situation.
	www.hrtribune.com /News/news.html (881 words)

	BANGLADESH: Students beaten by the Rapid Action Battalion in Bagerhat
		On 24 January 2006, two college students were forcefully removed from a bus by its conductor following their refusal to pay extra fares.
		Please send a letter immediately to the Director General of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and the other persons below expressing your concern about the torture of the students urging them to take prompt action to investigate the conduct of the soldiers and to ensure that justice is attained for the victim.
		I am writing to bring to your attention the alleged torture of ten students by soldiers of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)- 6 in Bagerhat district in Bangladesh.
	www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2006/1495 (986 words)

	Police bar Mahi from entering Bagerhat town
		Section 144 was imposed at Bagerhat Municipal auditorium area as both Bikalpa Dhara and Poura Jubo Dal organised rallies there at the same time.
		Mahi B Chowdhury MP and his entourage returned to Dhaka after offering fateha at the mazar of Khan Jahan Ali at about 11 am as they were not allowed to enter the town.
		Sources said that earlier the party workers' meeting of Bikalpa Dhara Bagerhat unit was scheduled to be held Sunday at the Bagerhat Municipal auditorium.
	nation.ittefaq.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/31/19317 (255 words)

	AsiaMedia :: BANGLADESH: Death threat to 2 Bagerhat journalists
		Two journalists of Bagerhat received death threat through two separate letters delivered to them from post office Tuesday noon.
		The letters were posted from Bagerhat Head Post Office on February 16.
		Zakaria and Rob filed two separate general diaries with Bagerhat Police the same day, seeking security of their lives.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=7799 (186 words)

	DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT IN COASTAL SHRIMP CULTURE
		It was, however, felt that it would be more beneficial to have all seven training programmes for out-growers in Bagerhat District after having discussions with the NPD, NC for Khulna Region and the District Fisheries Officers (DFO'S) of Khulna and Bagerhat Districts.
		At Diaganj in Mongla Thana the farm site which was identified by the consultant during his previous mission in conjunction with the DFO, Bagerhat District as the potential farm for EDU, Bagerhat, cannot be used, as the farmer is not in a position to construct a nursery compartment in the pond.
		Considering the enthusiasm and interest shown by both the out-growers and by collectors/fry holders to learn better management to increase production and improve quality it is advisable to continue field training for both out-growers and fry collectors/fry holders after the 40 training programmes that have already been completed by the consultant.
	www.fao.org /docrep/field/382979.htm (8393 words)

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