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		Districts head quarters known for its lush greenery and the district is known as the silo of the northern region Gaibanda is known as green crops store house.
		Area: The area of this district is 2171 Square Kilometer
		The main river of this district are Brammaputra, Jamuna, Atrai
	maps.webbangladesh.com /district/district_maps_gaibanda.htm (63 words)

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		Reconstruction of damaged houses are going in full swing in the affected areas of the two districts under the supervision by the ministers in charge of the districts, and administrations.
		Yusuf Ali, 50, of Dosholia village, Moiran Bewa, 63, of Noldanga Doshani village and Suruzvan, 73, of Pashchim Khamar Dosholia village under Sadullapur upazila of Gaibandha died yesterday.
		A woman cries as she mourns the loss of her son who died in a storm at a village in the northern Bangladeshi district of Gaibandha, 300 km (200 miles) from the capital Dhaka, March 21,2005.[Reuters] "I was outside when I heard a loud noise," villager Alim Uddin said as he buried his 70-year-old mother.
	www.bangladeshtornadoes.org /bdfcsts05/032005/tornadoinfo.txt (2793 words)

	Vindy.com - hTornadoes kill at least 37 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The tornadoes struck almost simultaneously in the same region, blowing away huts in dozens of farming villages in Gaibandha and neighboring Rangpur districts.
		One tornado killed at least 33 people, including women and children, and injured 800 in two areas of Gaibandha district, 120 miles north of the capital, Dhaka, the local administrator's office said.
		In the village of Khamar Doshalia in Gaibandha district, 23 people died and almost all the 900 homes there were leveled, local administrator Saifullahil Azam said.
	www.vindy.com /print/285283533686327.php (360 words)

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		Of them, Farhad Abdulla, joint secretary of Gaibandha district Awami League and Subhas Chandra, leader of Jubo League, were admitted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital in a critical condition while the rest injured were admitted to local health complexes.
		Total four rallies in the city and 14 rallies in the district were held after ending of the human wall programme.
		The 12 thanas in the city and 14 in the district were alert to control the situation.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/dec/12/12122004ts.htm (2109 words)

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		Mar 21: The death toll from yesterday’s deadly nor’wester that left a trail of destruction in Rangpur and Gaibandha districts, rose to 43 with over 600 injured as reports of more casualties reached here from remote villages today.
		Most of the dead were crushed under collapsing houses or falling trees when the violent storm, one of the worst in recent memory, whipped entire sleeping hamlets Sunday night with a maximum wind speed of 150 kilometres per hour razing to the ground thousands of thatched houses and uprooting trees.
		Two upazilas of Gaibandha district and one in Rangpur district were badly affected by the tornado.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/mar/22/22032005ts.htm (703 words)

	21 killed as storm lashes country
		Meanwhile, the official death toll in the Gaibandha tragedy today rose to 52 while nearly 900 people were being treated at different government and private hospitals in Rangpur and Gaibandha.
		The highest 230 tornado injured were being treated in Gaibandha while 126 were in Rangpur Medical College Hospital, where the condition of 22 was stated to be critical.
		In Gaibandha district, at least 15 people were injured and around 50 mud houses razed to the ground as the kalboishakhi blew over the Palashbari upazila Tuesday night.
	nation.ittefaq.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/28/17119 (1019 words)

	IndiaDaily - B''desh tornado toll touches 42
		More than 8,000 villagers from the flattened hamlets in the district of Gaibandha spent a second successive night in the open after Sunday's storm ripped their homes apart, police said.
		The twister accompanied by a hailstorm flattened 3,000 houses, destroyed crops, uprooted hundreds of trees and electricity poles and cut off communications to the 15 villages, located in one of the most impoverished parts of the country.
		District police chief Bhanu Lal Das said the army and Bangladeshi paramilitary border forces had joined local authorities in a huge rehabilitation programme that is being overseen by two government ministers.
	www.indiadaily.com /breaking_news/28962.asp (502 words)

	BWCA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Location: Bharatkhali is a small village at Shaghata Upazila (sub-district) under Gaibandha district is situated in the north east of Bogra district in the North.
		Camp site is 30 km from Gaibandha town and 330 km from capital city Dhaka.
		The village is mostly populated with poor and marginal people having temporarily built houses, live on agriculture and different small trade/business.
	www.mybwca.org /Gaibandha.htm (223 words)

	Prayer request: 22 killed, 75 injured in bus crashes in Bangladesh [Archive] - Rapture Ready Message Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While the rest six were killed when a bus collided with a truck in the same district's Korotia area, police said, adding around 40 people were injured in the incident The injured were rushed to hospital and the toll might go up as some were in critical condition, police and fire brigade officials said.
		The bus had been travelling from northwestern Gaibandha district to the capital when the accident happened about two-thirds of the way into the journey.
		Seventeen passengers were killed on the spot and 38 others injured as a Dhaka-bound passenger bus from Gaibandha fell on the dry riverbed after crashing through the railings of the bridge on the river Pouli on the Tangail-Mymensingh Road in Kalihati Upazila at noon.
	www.rr-bb.com /archive/index.php/t-198103.html (1025 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 393 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Gaibahda district town is still out of fibre optic network only for lack of a 20-kilometre cable line from the Plalashbari cable loop.
		Gaibandha telecommunications system is still dependents on the old technology of Ultra High Frequency (UHF) through wireless contact with Bogra, and it does not serve the purpose.
		The journalist community in Gaiubandha district is the worst sufferers.
	www.thedailystar.net /2005/07/05/d50705070274.htm (232 words)

	GN Online: Thousands face starvation in north (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The poor in these eight districts don't have work in this part of the year.
		Mahmood, a villager of Sadar sub-district said that the number of landless and day labourers in these districts is relatively higher than other parts of the country.
		An NGO executive in Fulchari sub-district in Gaibandha district who has been working in this area in poverty eradication work, said the situation used to be even worse many years ago as people used to die of starvation.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=31353 (376 words)

	Terrorism Update
		Further, on February 10, SF personnel shot dead district level and area level Maoists, identified as Dina Dayal Chaudhari alias Nyalu and Nabin Singha Poudel alias Basanta, in the Parsa district.
		Two AK rifles, three magazines, a map of district Rajouri with infiltration routes marked on it, photographs of some terrorists, currency of State Bank of Pakistan and 15 improvised explosive devices were recovered from the encounter site.
		Separately, a ‘regional leader’ of the Purbo Banglar Communist Party-Red Flag, Motleb Uddin Swapan, was killed in an encounter with the police personnel at Sakharipara village in Pabna district on February 11.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=2/12/2005 (2193 words)

	Rangpur - News [Feb-Mar 2005]
		The overall flood situation in the seven districts of the Brahmaputra basin deteriorated further due to onrush of...
		The rural districts of Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, Rangpur, Jamalpur, Bogra, Nilphamari, Kurigram and Sirajganj have been inundated by the surging waters in the...
		He said Rangpur district and city leaders were given final warning from the meeting of the working committee to follow the decision given by the central...
	news.daylightonline.com /2005-03/Rangpur.html (4258 words)

	BWCA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Location: The camp site at “Bharatkhali” of Shaghata Upazila of the Gaibandha district located at northern east of Bogra district, Northern part of Bangladesh.
		Population of the district mostly live on different type of small agriculture business and trades.
		The camp site is 250 km from capital city Dhaka and 20 km from Gaibandha main town.
	www.mybwca.org /Bharatkhali.htm (147 words)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Thousands of electricity consumers at Saghata in Gaibandha and Aditmari in Lalmonirhat districts gheraoed the Palli Biddut Samittee office and staged demonstrations in protest against loadshedding and power disruption.
		The Deputy Commissioner of the district might order for it since he is the sole authority to lease out any vested property.
		Whereas most part of the land and premises acquired for the port establishment have gone under the local land grabbers and the remaining portion is going to be captured by the ruffians in collaboration with some alleged authority concerned.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2005/08/10/district.htm (2234 words)

	Christmas -- Letter from Bangladesh: Finding a place among the people
		“You are going to the poorest district in all Bangladesh,” an attendant at the Dhaka bus terminal told me. Although I suspected he was exaggerating, it was reassuring to hear his appraisal of Gaibandha, the district town situated in northwest Bangladesh to which I moved that day.
		In Gaibandha, a place having neither Christians nor other missionaries, the effort to assist persons having cleft lips is an excellent and quick means to help the community understand that the missioner has come in order to make happier the lives of persons who are neglected.
		After two months in Gaibandha I had not yet been able to discover a dry plot of land on which to construct a wee house.
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives2/2004d/122404/122404m.php (1108 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 303 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A half-day hartal was observed in Gaibandha district yesterday in protest against lay-off of Rangpur Sugar Mills.
		All political parties in the district gave support to the hartal, called jointly by the district Workers and Employees Federation and Rangpur Sugar Mills Workers Union.
		A procession was brought out in the town and a rally held at the rail crossing point during the hartal demanding withdrawal of the lay-off.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/04/05/d40405070275.htm (256 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Two tornadoes struck almost simultaneously late on Sunday, blowing away thousands of flimsy huts and leaving nearly 15,000 people homeless in northern Gaibandha and Rangpur districts.
		Eight more bodies were discovered under debris yesterday in Gaibandha, bringing the death toll to 43 in the district, 190km north of the capital, Dhaka, the local administrator's office said.
		In the worst-affected village of Khamar Doshalia in Gaibandha district, many lost their homes, cattle and crops.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/world/archives/2005/03/23/2003247439/print (256 words)

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		The survey reveals that only in Charghat area under Rajshahi district, 68 people have already been attacked with arsenic poison.
		In Gaibandha district, the NGO workers found presence of arsenic content in tube-well water in between.01 to.02 per cent.
		A tube-well at Badiakhali under Gaibandha sadar Thana has been sealed up as.08 per cent of arsenic was found in its water.
	www.eng-consult.com /arsenic/as110.txt (227 words)

	Two Tornadoes Strike Bangladesh; 37 Dead (phillyBurbs.com) \| Asia
		GAIBANDHA, Bangladesh - Two tornadoes tore through northern Bangladesh late Sunday, killing at least 37 people, injuring nearly 1,000 and leaving thousands homeless, officials said Monday.
		The tornado flattened about 700 mud and straw houses.
		A second tornado swept through neighboring Rangpur district, killing at least four people and injuring about 200, police said.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/90-03212005-466053.html (371 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Two struck almost simultaneously late on Sunday, blowing away thousands of flimsy huts and leaving nearly 15,000 people homeless in northern Gaibandha and Rangpur districts.
		Eight bodies were discovered under debris yesterday in Gaibandha, bringing the death toll to 43 in the district, 190km north of the capital, Dhaka, the local administrator's office said.
		Many huddled around the remnants of their homes under open skies, with little food or water, witnesses said.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/world/archives/2005/03/23/2003247439/wiki (546 words)

	Around the world
		Two tornadoes tore through northern Bangladesh late Sunday, killing at least 37 people, injuring about 1,000 and leaving thousands homeless, officials said Monday.
		One tornado killed at least 33 people and injured 800 in two areas of Gaibandha district, 120 miles north of the capital, Dhaka, the local administrator's office said.
		Pope John Paul II won't hold his traditional audience this week, a Vatican official said Monday.
	www.freep.com /news/nw/for22e_20050322.htm (196 words)

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