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  Welcome to The Bangladesh Overserver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
GOPALGANJ, Aug 29:–About 1500 families were rendered homeless, 5000 hectares of crop land, 500 houses including shops, godowns and educational institutions were washed away by the currents of the rivers Modhumati, Kumar, Ghagor and MBR canal recently.
Hariduspur launchghat, Ulpur Bazar, Boiltali, Satpar Bazar, Tentulia, Kongshur, Bhennabari, Ghandhishur and Chamta under Gopalganj Sadar upazila were damaged and its vast areas were washed in river bed by MBR Canel erosion erosion recently.
Jalirpar Bazar, Kaligram, Baniarchar and Chagolchira under Muksudpur upazila of Gopalganj district were damaged and its vast areas were washed in river bed by Kumar River erosion recently.
www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /saturday/dis.htm   (2337 words)

  
 Bomb in Bangladesh Church Kills Ten
Police said the bomb was believed to have been concealed in a sack kept inside the church, and went off soon after the prayers had begun.
Gopalganj, where Sunday's blast occurred, is the home district of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed.
Mohammad Faruq Khan, an MP for the ruling Awami League in Gopalganj district, condemned the incident and promised a vigorous investigation through relevant government agencies responsible for security matters.
www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=617   (210 words)

  
 .:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
GOPALGANJ, June 21:–Most of the motorized vehicles in the Gopalganj district are plying without fitness certificates route permits and even without paying taxes to the government.
The vehicles are plying in the routes of Gopalganj Faridpur, Gopalganj-Takerhat, Baraitala.
Due to lack of Monitoring and noncompliance of the existing traffic regulations the Government is losing a huge amount of revenue from the transport sector in the Gopalganj district.
www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2004/06/22/district.htm   (2135 words)

  
 Saran
To the north of Saran lie districts of Siwan and Gopalganj.
Chapra district is lying between 25°-39’ and 26°-14’N and 84°-23’ and 85°-12’ E. Siwan district is bounded on the west by the Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, on the North and North-West by the Gopalganj district, On the East and South-East by the Sadar Sub-division and on the South by the river Gogra.
Gopalganj lying between 26°-12’ and 26°-39’ N and 83°-54’ and 84°-55’E with an area of 786 Square miles.
www.indianngos.com /districts/saran_about.htm   (560 words)

  
 Election 2004 - HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Gopalganj is all set to witness a royal battle with two MLAs and an ex-RJD man throwing their hat in the ring.
Interestingly enough, when the RJD and its allies are trying to duck question all over the state on the issue of development, the Gopalganj MLA proudly claims he is contesting the polls on development plank.
Moreover, of the six assembly segments in Gopalganj, NDA allies has four seats in the kitty — Baikunthpur and Mirganj is represented by JD(U) MLAs while Bhore and Barouli belongs to the BJP.
www.hindustantimes.com /2005/May/17/6996_705217,0016005500010000.htm   (647 words)

  
 10 killed in Bangladesh in church blast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Ten people were killed Sunday and 12 others injured, some seriously, when a bomb exploded in a church at Baniarchar village in Gopalganj district, some 100 km from here, where people had assembled for Sunday mass prayer.
Gopalganj is one of the few districts in Bangladesh having a sizeable Christian population, who are otherwise a very insignificant minority.
In last July, bombs were discovered near the venue of public meeting in Gopalganj only a few hours before Hasina was to address a meeting.
www.hvk.org /articles/0601/4.html   (262 words)

  
 The Hindu : Raghunath Jha gets bail in model code violation case
A local court today granted bail to Raghunath Jha, a Samata member of the dissolved Lok Sabha from Gopalganj, in a case of violation of model code of conduct in the 1999 general elections.
Jha's counsel, Prabhunath Singh, pleaded that his client had not received the notices served by the court and that the sections under which the case was filed against him were bailable.
The court had also issued arrest warrants against Gopalganj district presidents of BJP and Samata Party Harinarain Singh and Prasiddha Narain Mishra respectively in the same case, but the two were released on bail some time ago after they appeared before the court.
www.hindu.com /2004/03/14/stories/2004031401290500.htm   (276 words)

  
 Rabri's brother camps close to Gopalganj - Sify.com
Gopalganj: Chief Minister Rabri Devi's brother and RJD MP Anirudh Prasad alias Sadhu Yadav, who left Gopalganj yesterday following an externment order, has found a way to remain in touch with the voters.
Yadav is staying in a guest house of the sugarcane department of Uttar Pradesh, about 20 km from Gopalganj, sources close to the MP said.
Gopalganj district magistrate-cum returning officer K K Pathak on Friday had externed Yadav from Gopalganj from February 21 morning till 10 pm of Febuary 27 with a view to conducting fair and peaceful assembly polls in the district.
sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=13676938   (333 words)

  
 Gopalganj jail siege lifted- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
GOPALGANJ: Prisoners finally lifted the siege at the high-security gopalganj district jail on Sunday as the district administration assured them that their ‘genuine grievances’ would be looked into.
The minister said the prisoners demanded immediate release of six co-prisoners aged over 70 years as well as construction of a new jail building to lessen the pressure on the existing building.
Choudhry said the state government was in favour of releasing the prisoners aged over 70 but since the state law department raised certain objections to the proposal, it could not be implemented.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?artid=13207294   (367 words)

  
 Bhojpuria Samachar - The Exclusive News from Bhojpuria region
A Gopalganj court on August 24 rejected anticipatory bail plea of Sadhu Yadav, who is RJD supremo Lalu Prasad's brother-in-law, in the case.
Sadhu, the Lok Sabha member from Gopalganj, had allegedly assaulted a candidate for the post of chief of Block Development Committee Dinesh Sah after he refused to obey his "diktat" to withdraw from the fray in favour of Prasad's sister-in-law (wife of his elder brother Gulab Rai), Kunti Devi.
In early July, a Gopalganj court had issued non-bailable warrant of arrest against Sadhu Yadav in the same case.
www.bhojpuria.com /samachar/news.php?a=1432   (195 words)

  
 Martyr Comrades Umesh Paswan and Manu Kushwaha
The political killing is a fallout of the advances CPI(ML) had made against the oppression of the feudal forces and its political challenge to RJD, in the adjoining district of Gopalganj.
In the last assembly elections in 1995, contesting from the Bhore constituency of Gopalganj, Com.Paswan polled 18,000 votes despite booth capturing by JD on an unprecedented scale.
In Gopalganj, the blocks of Bhore and Vijaypur emerged as the two main centres of our struggle where we successfully launched movements against the notorious gangsters Anirudh Rai, Nagendra Rai and Vinay Sahai.
www.cpiml.org /liberation/year_1998/january/homage.htm   (704 words)

  
 BANGLAPEDIA: Gopalganj District
Gopalganj District (dhaka division) with an area of 1489.92 sq km, is bounded by faridpur district on the north, pirojpur and bagerhat districts on the south, madaripur and barisal districts on the east, narail district on the west.
Gopalganj (Town) a municipal (estd in 1972) town, consists of 9 wards and 49 mahallas.
The upazilas are gopalganj sadar, kashiani, kotalipara, muksudpur and tungipara.
banglapedia.search.com.bd /HT/G_0159.htm   (676 words)

  
 eBharat: -> Bihar -> Gopalganj - -> Bihar -> Gopalganj   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Gopalganj is an administrative district in the state of Bihar in India.
The district headquarters are located in the town of Gopalganj, and the district is a part of Saran division.
The district occupies an area of 2033 km² and has a population of 2,149,343 (as of 2001).
www.ebharat.in /directory/Bihar/Gopalganj   (106 words)

  
 Top Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Mufti Abdul Hannan was the prime accused in planting bomb near the dais of Awami League rally at Kotalipara in Gopalganj on July 20 in 2000.The then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was the chief guest at the rally.
Four days later, Gopalganj police recovered a huge quantity of explosive from a soap factory belonging to Mufti Hannan at BSIC area in Gopalganj.
A case was filed with Gopalganj police station accusing Hannan as a prime accused.
www.independent-bangladesh.com /news/oct/02/02102005ts.htm   (697 words)

  
 outlookindia.com | wired
The three others who were barred entry into the district by Gopalganj District Magistrate-cum-Returning Officer Brajesh Mehrotra are: LJP leader and former MP Kali Pandey, BJP nominee from Gopalganj Assembly seat Subhas Singh and BSP nominee Riyazul Haque, official sources said.
Gopalganj is going to poll in the fourth phase on November 19.
Sadhu Yadav, member of Lok Sabha from Gopalganj, was barred from entering the district even during the last Feruary state Assembly poll.
www.outlookindia.com /pti_news.asp?id=335471   (354 words)

  
 Gopalganj match is 'fixed'- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Gopalganj MP's wife, Indira Yadav, on Friday filed her nomination for the Gopalganj assembly seat as an independent.
After the hue and hype of dynasty rule, RJD chief Lalu Prasad appears to have "match fixed" senior RJD leaders clamouring for tickets for their sons, daughters, wives and even daughters-in-law.
After great difficulty, he was persuaded to withdraw," recalled an RJD leader from Saran pointing that even Indira Devi's victory would be welcome for the ruling party.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1013692.cms   (503 words)

  
 [Islam-Online- Top News]
The bomb was discovered near the dais from where she was to speak at a ceremony Saturday in Kotalipara area in her home district of Gopalganj, 96 kilometers (60 miles) from the capital Dhaka, officials said.
Hasina, on a two-day trip to Gopalganj, said Saturday at an official ceremony: "I am not afraid of death as it is inevitable and will come when God will desire so.
In 1996, the government said it unearthed a plan to assassinate Hasina when she went to Tungipara, in Gopalganj district, to offer prayers at the grave of her assassinated father and Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
www.islamonline.net /iol-English/dowalia/news-2000-July-23/topnews6.asp   (502 words)

  
 The other Indira & RJD home truths - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
She is contesting as an independent candidate from the Gopalganj assembly constituency.
Presently Indira is campaigning tirelessly to win from Gopalganj — the native district of both Laloo Yadav and Rabri Devi.
On Friday she was on a door to door visit in the Harakhuan locality of Gopalganj town.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/feb202005/n17.asp   (593 words)

  
 Sadhu Yadav assaults candidate, poll postponed - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Sadhu, the Lok Sabha member from Gopalganj, assaulted the candidate, Dinesh Sah, after the latter refused to withdraw from the fray in favour of Lalu's sister-in-law (wife of his elder brother Gulab Rai), Kunti Devi, also an aspirant for the post of Phulwaria block development committee chief, District Magistrate Murlidhar Rai said.
Rai said that he had postponed the election for the post and a fresh date would be announced in consultation with the state election commission.
The DM said superintendent of police of neighbouring Siwan district, who is in-charge of Gopalganj, has been asked to immediately withdraw the commandos provided to Sadhu Yadav.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jun292006/update1411522006629.asp   (338 words)

  
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The BADC sources at Gopalganj said 450 tonnes of seed were distributed among the farmers this year under the Agri-rehabilitation programme in the district.
The Gopalganj Police said the robbers looted a motorcycle from the house of Hajee Jamal Uddin at Chandmari road in Gopalganj town Saturday midnight.
A case was filed with the Gopalganj Police Station in this connection and the arrested persons were sent to the district jail.
www.newagebd.com /2005/may/24/home.html   (1775 words)

  
 Prisoners lay siege to Gopalganj jail- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
PATNA: Reenacting the scenes witnessed earlier in the Siwan district jail, the agitating inmates of the Gopalganj district jail laid siege to the prison on Saturday following the death of an undertrial prisoner, Jeetan Ram, in the jail hospital, which, according to them, was caused by the negligence of jail officials.
Senior officials of the Gopalganj district administration, including DM Ramanand Prasad and SP Saheb Akhtar, were still camping in the jail and negotiating with the agitating prisoners when the last reports quoting assistant jailer Ramchandra Mahto came in.
The death of Jeetan Ram in the jail provided them with an immediate cause for agitation in which those 19 inmates took the lead, she added.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?art_id=13104416   (305 words)

  
 History,geography and description of Chhapra,Siwan,Gopalganj, districts of Saran,Bihar.
Election Results on 22nd Nov.,'05....Peaceful Election in Siwan, Chhapra and Gopalganj including all Bihar on 19th Nov.........
Gopalganj and Chhapra (called Saran),is a Commisionary Town.Chhapra, (Latitude - 25.47° North and Longitude - 84.47° East) located in low, fertile Gangetic plain, has relatively cool, dry winters and hot summers with 750 mm.
Gopalganj was a Sub-Division of Old Saran District.
www.chhapra-bihar.com   (575 words)

  
 Sadhu Yadav leaves Gopalganj
Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi's controversial brother Anirudh Prasad alias Sadhu Yadav, who has been barred from Gopalganj district, on Monday said his rival are "influencing" the Election Commission.
The EC had on Sunday taken exception to Saran Divisional Commissioner Gopal Shankar Prasad staying the order of Gopalganj District Magistrate K K Pathak barring the RJD leader from the district till the election process was over (Sadhu's wife Indrani Devi is in the fray from Gopalganj assembly constituency as an Independent).
He claimed no case was registered against him in Gopalganj for booth-capturing or intimidation when he had contested the Lok Sabha election.
www.rediff.com /election/2005/feb/21sadhu.htm   (239 words)

  
 Lifestyle: News You Can Use; Fighting the fakers; July 20, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Born in 1969 into a highly conservative Muslim family in Gopalganj, Bihar, Rani Khanam has surmounted formidable social obstacles to become one of the leading Kathak dancers of the country, rated by many as the best of the younger lot.
But there was a fire within that kept me going." Rani adds that there had been a slow shift in the attitude of Muslims towards her.
Even in Gopalganj she had begun learning to dance.
www.the-week.com /23aug17/life6.htm   (1495 words)

  
 ML Update: a CPI(ML) Weekly News Magazine
This incident has proved once again that history-sheeter Shahabuddin continues to operate from inside the Siwan jail with the active connivance and support from the civic and police authorities at the instance of RJD government in Bihar.
Earlier an investigation team led by CPI(ML) ex-MLA and popular leader in the area comrade Amarnath Yadav from Siwan and Gopalganj District Secretary of the Party comrade Sunil Yadav reached the spot on Jan 13 to gather details of the massacre.
The Party has demanded stern punishment to the killers, compensation to the bereaved families of the victims and immediate suspension of DM and SP of Gopalganj.
www.cpiml.org /pgs/ml_upd/vol7/7_3.htm   (2815 words)

  
 PatnaDaily.Com - Bandh Peaceful in Gopalganj, Siwan
The Communist Party of India-ML (Liberation), Bihar unit, on Tuesday observed bandh in Gopalganj and Siwan districts to protest the recent killings of people in the area and blamed the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) government for failing to check crime in the state.
The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is planning to send two separate "fact-finding" teams to Gopalganj and Jehanabad to ascertain the situation.
They also demanded immediate arrests of the criminals responsible for the massacres and resignation from the Rabri government for letting the state slip into the clutches of such elements.
www.patnadaily.com /news2004/011504/bandh_peaceful_in_siwan.html   (258 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 270   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
While militant leader Asadullah Al Galib remains under interrogation at the joint interrogation cell (JIC) in Dhaka, three of his top aides were sent to Gopalganj yesterday for interrogation in a case filed for robbery at the Brac office in Kotalipara in Gopalganj.
The Gopalganj police are likely to seek a 15-day remand today of Galib's three associates Samad Salafi, Nurul Islam and ASM Azizullah in order to interrogate them in connection with the Brac office robbery case.
A large contingent of police from Rajshahi and Gopalganj escorted the three to Gopalganj after the Rajshahi jail authorities handed over them to police.
www.thedailystar.net /2005/03/01/d5030101033.htm   (660 words)

  
 Welcome to Bangladesh Awami League - Sheikh Hasina's call to expedite fall of 'failed, corrupt' rule
Bongobondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born in a respectable Muslim family on 17 March 1920, in Tungipara village under the then Gopalganj subdivision (at present district) of Faridpur district.
At nine, he was admitted to class three at Gopalganj public school.
He led a group of students to demand that the cracked roof of the school be repaired when Sher-e-Bangla A. Fazlul Huq, Prime Minister of undivided Bengal, came to visit the school along with Husein Shaheed Suhrawardy, later chief minister of Bangla and even later prime minister of Pakistan.
www.albd.org /bangabandhu/bangabandhu.htm   (4650 words)

  
 outlookindia.com | wired   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Lashing out at Election Commission for his externment from Gopalganj constituency, Chief Minister Rabri Devi's controversial brother Anirudh Prasad alias Sadhu Yadav today said the commission was "being influenced by his rivals" and left the area in a huff.
The commission had yesterday taken strong exception to Saran Divisional Commissioner Gopal Shankar Prasad staying the order of Gopalganj District Magistrate K K Pathak externing the RJD leader from the district till the election process was over as Sadhu's wife Indrani Devi was in the fray from Gopalganj assembly constituency as an independent.
He claimed no case was registered against him in Gopalganj for booth-capturing or intimidation when he had successfully contested the last Lok Sabha poll.
www.outlookindia.com /pti_news.asp?id=281085   (430 words)

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