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  Chittagong
Chittagong is the nearest of Bangladesh's major cities to Cox's Bazar, the longest natural beach in the world and a popular tourist attraction.
Chittagong is very different in terms of topography from the rest of Bangladesh, as the city is part of the hilly regions that branch off from the Himalayas.
Chittagong is known as the land of saints, darwishes and fakirs.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Satkhira District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Chittagong Division is one of the six administrative divisions of Bangladesh.
Chittagong District is a district located in the south-eastern region of Bangladesh.
Feni is a small southern district of Bangladesh, bordering (clockwise from the north) Tripura in India, Chittagong district, the Bay of Bengal, Noakhali district and Comilla district.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Satkhira-District   (1243 words)

  
 Chittagong District : Banglapedia Article:Boi-Mela
Chittagong District (chittagong division) with an area of 5282.98 sq km, is bounded by feni district and Tripura (Indian state) on the north, cox's bazar district on the south, bandarban, rangamati and khagrachhari districts on the east and noakhali district and the bay of bengal on the west.
The district of Chittagong Hill Tracts was established in 1860 with the hill region of the district.
Chittagong region was under the kingdom of Arakan during sixth and seventh centuries.
www.boi-mela.com /Banglapedia/ViewArticle.asp?TopicRef=1267   (918 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Chittagong Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The historical riverfront is an important part of the city due to the historical status of Chittagong as an important port city.
Chittagong used to be a possession of the Kingdom of Arakan.
Later it was claimed by the king of Burma and this led to a conflict between the Burma and the United Kingdom in 1824.
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 Bambooweb: Chittagong
Chittagong is the largest sea port of Bangladesh.
Later it was claimed by the king of Burma and this led to a conflict between the Burma and the United Kingdom in 1824.
With the withdrawal of the British from the Indian subcontinent in 1947, Chittagong became part of East Pakistan.
www.bambooweb.com /articles/C/h/Chittagong.html   (287 words)

  
 Yunus, Muhammad - MSN Encarta
Yunus was born in a small village in Chittagong, which was then part of India prior to its independence from Great Britain.
While living in the United States, Yunus became a supporter of the separatist movement in West Pakistan that led to the formation of the independent nation of Bangladesh in 1971.
He returned to Bangladesh and became a professor of economics at Chittagong University in the port city of Chittagong.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701835574/Yunus_Muhammad.html   (440 words)

  
 country news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Statistics available with the Chittagong City Corporation show that the number of boys eligible for schooling is the same as the number of such girls in the city.
But the number of seats for girls in nine government high schools is less than a half the number of seats for boys, sources in the Chittagong district education office said.
Deputy director of the directorate of secondary education, Chittagong, Rahenara Begum said it is essential to increase the number of shifts in girls' schools, as setting up new schools is difficult.
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 fr Chittagong Chittagong is the second largest city in Bangladesh Bangladesh...
Chittagong is the largest sea port of Bangladesh Bangladesh.
Chittagong used to be a possession of the Kingdom of Arakan Arakan.
With the withdrawal of the British from the Indian subcontinent Indian subcontinent in 1947 1947, Chittagong became part of East Pakistan East Pakistan.
www.biodatabase.de /Chittagong   (369 words)

  
 Chittagong Collegiate School help – Wiki at Help.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Chittagong Collegiate School is a notable secondary school in Chittagong, the southern port city in Bangladesh.
Finally, the school was relocated to its present address at Ice Factory Road, South Nalapara, near the Chittagong Railway Station in 1886, and was given the name of Chittagong Collegiate School.
The school campus is considered to be one of the largest campuses in Bangladesh.
www.help.com /wiki/Chittagong_Collegiate_School   (533 words)

  
 Chittagong Collegiate School . Chittagong . Bangladesh . Muhammad Yunus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Chittagong Collegiate School is a famous school in Chittagong, the southern port city in Bangladesh.
Established in 1836, it is one of the oldest schools in the country.
Chittagong Bengali language Bengali: চট্টগ্রাম, Chaṭṭagrām is the major sea-port and second largest city of Bangladesh.
www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Chittagong_Collegiate_School   (621 words)

  
 Chittagong - TheBestLinks.com - Chittacong, Bangladesh, Burma, East Pakistan, ...
The city was built on the banks of the Karnaphuli River.
It is home to Chittagong University, which was established in 1966.
Chittagong used to be a possession of the Kingdom of Arakan.
www.thebestlinks.com /Chittacong.html   (338 words)

  
 Take a BrainSip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Established in 1828, Rajshahi Collegiate School is the first modern School to be established in Bangladesh.
Though a lot of institutions were established in Kolkata and the western part of Bengal, the first School in East Bengal was Rajshahi Collegiate School.
Its establishment was followed by those of Jessore Zilla School, Dhaka Collegiate School, Chittagong Collegiate School and Rangpur Zilla School.
rajshahi-collegiate-school.brainsip.com   (141 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 912   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The number of schools, government, non-government, at primary and secondary level are around 720 and 150 respectively in the city, said the sources at Primary Education Office and Chittagong Education Board.
Collegiate School will sell forms for 120 seats for class five, 230 for class six and 40 for class nine while Khastagir School will sell forms for 230 seats for only class five.
Mohammad Aziz Uddin, headmaster of Chittagong Collegiate School, said crisis in admission aggravates as the government has not established new high school in the port city for years with increase in admission seekers.
www.thedailystar.net /2006/12/20/d612203502133.htm   (716 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 583   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The anxious parents and guardians are now in a frenzied race to get their wards admitted to the reputed schools in the commercial capital with the beginning of admission process ahead of the new academic year.
Anup Mutsuddy, a guardian of an admission seeker at Chittagong Collegiate School, said the admission tests will be held at all city schools the same day leaving no scope for one to appear in the test at more than one school.
Smriti Biswas along with other guardians seen waiting on the school (Collegiate) premises for her son, who was studying in the teachers' quarters ahead of admission test at the school.
www.thedailystar.net /2006/01/18/d601183502123.htm   (530 words)

  
 OFA NA Message Board (FCCs Achievement in The SSC Exams)
Twenty-one schools have achieved cent per cent pass rate while the number of hundred per cent pass rate achievers in the examination last year was twelve.
As far as the number of GPA-5 holders is concerned, Chittagong Collegiate School tops the list with 297 students.
The pass rates of these two schools are 98.95 and 98.
www.ofana.org /aspBoardDetail.asp?Id=625   (223 words)

  
 Muhammad Yunus Wins The Nobel Prize
Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Chittagong, Bangladesh, as the third of fourteen children.
After studying at the Chittagong Collegiate School and Chittagong College, and earning his BA and MA at Dhaka University, he came to the United States, where, in 1969, he got his PhD in economics from Vanderbilt University.
When in 1974, during the famine in Bangladesh, he failed to persuade a local bank to give villagers regular credit, he went on to establish a rural economic program, which reached out to the poor and those in severe debt.
www.sarid.net /development/yunus.html   (532 words)

  
 MuhammadYunus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Professor Yunus was born in 1940 in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Later, he studied at Chittagong Collegiate School and passed the matriculation examination, in which he secured the 16th position among 39,000 students.
From 1969 to 1972, he was an assistant professor of economics at Middle Tennessee State University before moving back to Bangladesh, where he joined Chittagong University as an economics professor.
www.hct.ac.ae /newsevents/archive/0107/ewb_speaker.html   (320 words)

  
 Dhaka Calling - Tourist Guide; Destination Dhaka, Bangladesh - Information of Flight, Air Fair, Business Classified
In the field of development idea, Nobel Prize for Professor Muhammad Yunus was long overdue and it is in recognition that the country has something to offer to the world, top economists, researchers and business leaders observed.
Muhammad Yunus, the visionary and developer of the unique microcredit concept, was born at an obscure village in Chittagong in June 28, 1940.
Coming of a well-off family, Yunus was able to attend preparatory school in Chittagong.
dhakacalling.com /dec06_pro_muhammad_yunus.php   (1153 words)

  
 Muhammad Yunus dan Grameen Bank Banglades, Nobel Perdamaian 2006 | Ensiklopedi Tokoh Indonesia
Ketika itu, sebagai profesor ekonomi di Universitas Chittagong, dia memimpin para mahasiswa untuk berkunjung ke desa-desa miskin di Bangladesh.
Dari perasaan bersalah itu, laki-laki kelahiran Chittagong tahun 1940 itu mulai mengembangkan konsep pemberdayaan kaum papa.
Sufia yang tinggal di desa Jobra dekat Universitas Chittagong meminjam uang 5 taka atau kurang dari Rp 850 untuk setiap bangku.
www.tokohindonesia.com /aneka/nobel/perdamaian/2006/index.shtml   (1931 words)

  
 BANGLAPEDIA: Chittagong Collegiate School
The school was the first English medium high school in chittagong.
Finally, the school was relocated to its present address at Ice Factory Road in 1886, and was given the name of Chittagong Collegiate High School.
nabinchandra sen, the poet, was a student of the school.
banglapedia.search.com.bd /HT/C_0211.htm   (279 words)

  
 MoneyScience Financial Intelligence Network : Profile: The Microcredit Pioneer and the Nobel Peace Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Yunus was born in 1940 in the village of Bathua, in Hathazari, Chittagong.
Later, he studied at Chittagong Collegiate School and passed the matriculation examination, in which he secured the 16th position among 39,000 students in East Pakistan.
During his school years, he was active in the Boy Scouts, and travelled to West Pakistan and India in 1952.
moneyscience.org /home/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&threadId=&comments_parentId=116   (1705 words)

  
 1984 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership - Mohammad Yunus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
YUNUS was born on June 28, 1940 in Chittagong, Bengal, India—which became part of East Pakistan in 1947 and Bangladesh in 1971.
He had already been accepted by the Muslim school close to his home where most of his friends from the neighborhood were going, but he accompanied former classmates from M.E. School when they went to see if they had been accepted by Chittagong Collegiate School.
The two men convinced the boy that Chittagong Collegiate, the top government high school in the city, was the best choice for a student of his ability, and allowed him to enter without taking its entrance exam.
www.rmaf.org.ph /Awardees/Biography/BiographyYunusMuh.htm   (7827 words)

  
 Kirtimaan - Dr. Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus was born on 28th June, 1940 in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
He studied at Chittagong Collegiate School and later at Chittagong College.
His dream, which he is actively pursuing, is the total eradication of poverty from the world.
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 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 776   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Zain Uddin Ziad, a student of Chittagong Collegiate School who achieved A+ in all subjects, gave up all his hopes when he missed the chance to get admitted to his long-cherished Chittagong College.
Zain, who obtained first position in the Junior Scholarship Examination in Chittagong Division in 2003, was so surprised when he did not find his name in the first list of Mohsin College.
Like Zain, Protyush and Mahruf of the same school, and Shakhawat and Syed Aftabuddin of Muslim High School, who also got golden GPA marks, could not enroll them at Chittagong College due to same problem.
www.thedailystar.net /2006/08/02/d608023501160.htm   (621 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dacca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The nine "centres" into which the Diocese of Dacca is divided give opportunity to the twenty missionaries at work in it to carry on an active propaganda in outlying districts.
In each centre there is a school, and in many of the dependent stations there is catechumenate under the immediate supervision of local catechists and the elders of the respective communities.
In Dacca, Chittagong, and the Akyab the mission conducts schools in which students, irrespective of religious profession, are prepared for "entrance" or collegiate work.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/04601b.htm   (764 words)

  
 Front Page
Meanwhile, chairman of Brahmanbaria pourasabha Hafizur Rahman Molla Kochi and district BNP general secretary Alhaj Syed Emranur Reza in separate statements have condemned the attack on the residence of SM Zakaria and demanded immediate arrest of and exemplary punishment for those responsible for the incident.
Movement of vessels to and from Chittagong port was being interrupted, as all attempts of the port authorities to salvage the sunken ship MV Shah Badar-1 went in vain as of Friday night.
Sources at the Chittagong Port Authority said they allowed only four ships to enter and one to leave the port Friday, and three small ships to depart on Thursday, as the port channel became narrow and risky for vessel movement due to the submerged ship.
www.newagebd.com /2006/oct/14/front.html   (5353 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Telekids
City life was quite different from the kind of life we lived in the village.
I studied in the village primary school till we moved to Chittagong, where I enrolled in the Lamabazar Primary School.
I was an active scout and in 1952 I even attended the World Scouts Jamboree in Canada as part of the Pakistan contingent.
www.telegraphindia.com /1070221/asp/telekids/story_7417395.asp   (368 words)

  
 Chittagong Collegiate School . Muhammad Yunus . Chittagong . Grameen Bank . 1836 . Bangladesh . Microcredit
Collegiate School is a famous school in Chittagong, the southern port city in Bangladesh.
The Arabia Arabs knew its port in the ninth century AD, and fell in love with its beauty, settling and integrating into the culture.
De Barros, the first of the great Portuguese chroniclers of Asia, described Chittagong in 1552 as "the most famous and wealthy city of the kingdom of Bengal, by reason of its port at which meets the traffic of all that eastern region." The city was described...
www.uk.kunsimuna.net /Chittagong_Collegiate_School_UK_428244_qy   (417 words)

  
 Muhammad Yunus —   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Born in Chittagong, Yunus studied in Chittagong Collegiate School and Chittagong College.
Later, he joined Chittagong University as a professor of economics.
His first loan consisted of $27 from his own pocket, which he lent to women in the village of Jobra — near Chittagong University — who made bamboo furniture.
www.writespirit.net /authors/muhammad_yunus   (472 words)

  
 IndiaNET.com India NET Communications
The bank began as a research project by Yunus and the Rural Economics Project at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh to test his method for providing credit and banking services to the rural poor.
In 1976, the village of Jobra and other villages surrounding the University of Chittagong became the first areas eligible for service from Grameen Bank.
The Bank was immensely successful and the project, with government support, was introduced in 1979 to the Tangail District (to the north of the capital, Dhaka).
www.indianet.com /janata/micro_loans.htm   (935 words)

  
 A Moment With Azad
I was a student of Cantonment Public School in Chittagong, and used to play keyboard in our school programs.
When I transferred to Collegiate School, I participated in the school's annual programs.
The time was 1987, I was a student in Collegiate School in Chittagong.
www.alochona.org /magazine/2001/december/interview.htm   (1822 words)

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