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Topic: Jamalpur District


  
  The News Today   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
JAMALPUR, Mar 9: An acute scarcity of fish is prevailing in all the seven upazilas of the district.
Jamalpur district once was known as the district of abundant fishes, meat, eggs and milk.
The victim was identified as Rafiqul Islam, 13, son of Abdul Halim of Patharghata upazila in Barguna district.
www.newstoday-bd.com /home.asp?newsdate=3/10/2006   (2378 words)

  
 .:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
JAMALPUR, Aug 24:—Different political parties and socio-cultural organisations have been continu­ing their relief operations to help out the flood-affected people in and around the Jamalpur district.
Jamalpur Pourashava Chairman, Advocate Oares Ali Mannan, vis­ited different flood affected areas in the pourashava on Monday and distributed relief materials in­cluding rice, oral saline and pure drinking water among the flood affected people sheltered at Jamalpur Poura Bhaban.
It may be mentioned that at least 30 thousand people of other districts like Khulna, Rangpur, Mymensingh, Lakshmipur, Barisal have already been residing in the Pourashava areas in different slums with their family members.
www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2004/08/25/district.htm   (1522 words)

  
 Welcome to Dr. Aamir's Online, Your Homeopathic Medical Advisor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Though the government has appointed some alternative treatment providers in 45 districts across the country, an investigation by The Independent revealed that inadequate infrastructure facilities and irregular supply of alternative drugs in those district hospitals are making it harder to implement the government’s decision.
Jamalpur Civil Surgeon Dr Shah Abdul Ahad when asked about the Yunani treatment at the hospital said though treatment providers and other employees were appointed, there was no sufficient facilities here in comparison to the demand.
In a garden on the Jamalpur District Hospital premises medicinal plants of 50 species worth Taka 66 thousand were planted.
www.draamir.com /detail.asp?ID=46   (529 words)

  
 Incidents-April 2004
Batiaghata sub-district, Khulna district (in Southern Bangladesh, bordering the Bay of Bengal).
Pirojpur district (in southern Bangladesh bordering the Bay of Bengal) - Niranjan Datta, a local villager belonging to the Hindu minority community, was witness to his own house being attacked by a gang of Islamic fundamentalists.
Baratiya village, Dumurya sub-district, Khulna district (in southeastern Bangladesh bordering the Bay of Bengal), Nirmal Biswas, a fisherman belonging to the local Hindu minority community age 38, was brutally murdered by a suspected gang of Islamic militants.
www.mayerdak.com /incid_apr03.htm   (883 words)

  
 .:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
JAMALPUR, Dec 11:–Jamalpur district was liberated from the clutches of Pakistan occupation army which came to an end for the people of Jamalpur in the morning of December 11, 1971 when the heroic sons of the soil entered the town with Joy Bangla slogan.
Jamalpur was formally declared enemy-free with the hoisting of National Flag at WAPDA Rest House premises by Faizur Rahman, the Company Commonder of Sector No.-11.
At dawn Pakistani troops were defeated and Jamalpur became free after great loss to the enemy.
www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2004/12/12/district.htm   (2200 words)

  
 TI Bangladesh news archive 2
Jamalpur CCC met with the railway authority of Jamalpur on 21st December, 2002.
Jamalpur CCC organized an advocacy meeting on the report card on primary education on 26th August, 2002 at the Jamalpur CCC office.
Jamalpur Upazilla Primary Education Officer, TIB Programme Officer and a number of CCC members were present at the meeting.
www.ti-bangladesh.org /news/archive2.htm   (10806 words)

  
 Bangladesh Districts
At the date of its independence in 1971, Bangladesh was divided into four bibhag (divisions), which were subdivided into zila (districts), and then into thana or upazila (subdistricts).
The regions were subdivided into 64 new, smaller districts, each of which was formed of a set of thana.
Jamalpur consisted of the western part of the former district of Nasirabad, not including the city of Mymensingh itself.
www.statoids.com /ybd.html   (622 words)

  
 Quick Response Report #90 - Tornadoes in the Districts of Jamalpur and Tangail in Bangladesh
The places I visited and contacted in the district of Tangail were Tangail district office, Tangail general hospital, Thana nirbari offices in six thanas (Gopalpur, Ghatail, Kalihati, Basail, Sakhipur, and Mirzapur), and field surveys in two villages in the Basail thana and one in the Sakhipur thana.
In the district of Tangail, 585 persons died, of which 54 were outsiders, day labourers from outside of the area.
In order to understand the reasons accounting for 605 deaths from tornadoes on 13 May 1996 in the districts of Jamalpur and Tangail in Bangladesh, environmental, societal and cultural risk factors were examined.
www.colorado.edu /UCB/Research/IBS/hazards/qr/qr90.html   (4186 words)

  
 Incidents-November 2001 (Part One)
Barisal district (in southern Bangladesh bordering the Bay of Bengal).
Bagerhat district (in southern Bangladesh bordering the Bay of Bengal).
The ripe harvest of rice paddy belonging to the minority Hindu villagers from the areas of Jagadishpur, Shyampur, Belghar and Teghaira are being looted by Muslim reactionaries.
www.mayerdak.com /incid_nov01pt1.htm   (1595 words)

  
 Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India
Districts in West Bengal are indicated by letters, as follows: A, Maldah; B, Murshidabad; C, Bardhaman; D, Hugli; E, Howrah; F, Nadia; G, North 24-Parganas; H, South 24-Parganas; and I, Calcutta.
Until last year, we knew that the districts of Jamalpur and Bogra (Figure 1) had groundwater arsenic levels between 10 and 49 µg/L. In our recent survey, we found villages with high arsenic in groundwater in these two districts, and we also found very serious arsenic patients in Ezarapara (Jamalpur District) and Ullipur (Bogra District).
Although the total population of the 42 districts in Bangladesh and the nine affected districts in West Bengal are approximately 80 million and 42 million, respectively, it does not mean that all of the individuals are drinking arsenic-contaminated water and will suffer from arsenic toxicity.
aquaticpath.umd.edu /appliedtox/chowdhury-full.html   (3780 words)

  
 Country News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The downpour damaged standing crops on 4,639 hectares of land in the district.
The farmers of the district have urged the authorities concerned to provide them with interest-free loan and to waive interest on the previous loans.
According to informed sources, the girl along with her mother was attending on her father, a resident of village Masolandapur under Madhukhali upazila of the district, has been undergoing treatment at the surgery ward of FMCH.
independent-bangladesh.com /news/oct/11/11102004ct.htm   (3738 words)

  
 Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Thousands of farmers of the district have been toiling on their fields from dawn to dusk everyday since the first week of the January to prepare their lands for the cultivation of IRRI-boro.
The soil of the district is suitable for cultivation of pumpkin.
Mostly uncared, the pumpkin gardens in the district are not well-planned as the growers do not use fertiliser in their cropland, nor do they know modern method of cultivation, sources concerned said.
www.newagebd.com /2005/feb/07/home.html   (1801 words)

  
 Bangladesh News - From The New Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The 36th Independence and National Day was celebrated in the port city and district amid much enthusiasm and renewed pledge to fight against terrorism.
Three people, who were on bicycle on way to a nearby village on Friday night, were killed by miscreants in Mirpur upazila of the district.
The deceased were identified as shopkeepers Nurul Alam, 20, and Manjur Alam, 18, and a night guard, Mohammed Hossain, 60.
nation.ittefaq.com /artman/publish/cat_index_5.shtml   (444 words)

  
 Probe Committee Report by AL Parliamentary Party on Wheat Procurement Scam of BNP-Jamaat Government
It is interesting to note that the five districts below accounted for purchase of almost 90% of the additional “procurement” of 100,000 MT and the levels set for procurement during the off-season are actually higher than the quantity that was actually procured during the production season.
It was informed from the other officers and workers that the kith and kin of former local deputy minister and the brother of the present state-minister brought the additional wheat using their power and terrifying the people.
Prime Minister and her son Tarek Zia who is all in all in Bogra district and his orders and directions are the same as that of an in-charge District Minister.
www.albd.org /wheat/probreport.htm   (2473 words)

  
 A GIS and Remote Sensing based approach to develop cold storage infrastructure for horticultural crops: A case study ...
Bardhaman district is one of the major potato growing districts of West Bengal.
The study was conducted for three police stations of Bardhaman district, namely, Jamalpur, Kalna and Memari which account for 82.9 and 83.3 per cents of potato area and production of the district respectively.
The RS data was georeferenced and the boundary mask of Bardhaman district was overlaid.
www.gisdevelopment.net /application/agriculture/production/agric0004.htm   (645 words)

  
 Zealots attacks again on Ahmadiyya in Bangladesh
Islamist bigots in Bangladesh once again attacked the members of the Ahmadiyya community, a minority religious sect, in the country’s northern Jamalpur district on Friday night.
The sect leaders in Dhaka said none was however injured in the attack, but the attackers damaged furniture, valuables and property, and forced-out the Ahmadiyya men from their homesteads.
The sect members are panicked now with the latest attack at the village in Sharishabari of district.
www.thepersecution.org /world/bangladesh/2005/07/wi30.html   (260 words)

  
 Munger District is located in the southern part Bihar and its headquarters are located on the southern bank of river ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Munger District is located in the southern part Bihar and its headquarters are located on the southern bank of river Ganges.
There are about 903 villages in the district.
The Munger district on an average is 30 to 65 mtrs above sea level.
munger.nic.in /disprof.htm   (369 words)

  
 Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) , South Asia Terrorism Portal
Although the outfit was formed in Jamalpur district, its terrorist campaign is based in the North Bengal region, Daily Star reported on August 28, 2005.
January 30: A JMB ‘regional commander’ of the Tongi-Uttara area, Abdullah al Sohail al Maruf alias Akash, was arrested by the RAB personnel from Ashulia in the Gazipur district.
September 11: Police arrests Moulana Obaidur Rahman Ibne Fazle, younger brother of the JMB chief Abdur Rahman, at Madarganj sub-district in the Jamalpur district.
www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/bangladesh/terroristoutfits/JMB.htm   (3238 words)

  
 HRCBM Home Page
August, 2003 — one is at Sontia Bazar, Jamalpur Sadar P.S. and another is at Bakshiganaj P.S. to ascertain the incident of repression and rape on the religious minorities on the basis of news published in different news papers in Bangladesh.
The Hindu families consisting of 50 in number were threatened to leave the country and some terrorists attempted to occupy their landed properties for illegal gain.
I found that the victim expressed clearly that she was forcefully taken to the open filed and the noted rapists raped her one after another.
www.hrcbm.org /women/lenita_0909.html   (1297 words)

  
 Asia
Jamalpur district in the northeast, was the worst affected with 200 000 people stranded, 8 000 hectares of paddy damaged and considerable loss of property.
Rainfall in the major producing provinces of Kurunagala and Anuradhapura in December, a critical month, was 20 percent and 13 percent respectively of the long term average, whilst the corresponding fall in output was 54 percent and 27 percent respectively of average for the preceding five years.
The food supply situation in the next few months is likely to become tighter, especially in districts affected by drought, which reduced or destroyed the Maha crop and could have similar consequences in Yala.
www.fao.org /giews/english/fs/fs9608/pays/asia9608.htm   (8522 words)

  
 FHD Projects1 Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
With assistance from the Directorate of Non formal Education FHD has opened 405 literacy centers in Mymensingh, Jamalpur, Patuakhali, Dhaka districts and Metropolitan cities of Rajshahi, Khulna and Chittagong.
Another two schools are under construction in Sadar thana of Jamalpur district.
Apart from this seed bed were set up in different parts of Jamalpur and Sherpur districts and saplings were distributed among the interested farmers.
www.cybcity.com /fhd/projects1.htm   (1071 words)

  
 fs 9606 - Asia
The most affected districts were Tangail and Jamalpur, where overall 80 villages and an estimated 20 000 hectares of crops were damaged or destroyed.
As part of its relief operation, as of 20 May, the Government had distributed 150 tons of wheat and 141 tons of rice in Tangail district and 2 tons of wheat in Jamalpur district.
Jhapa district, was the worst affected of the seven districts known to have been hit.
www.fao.org /giews/english/fs/fs9606/pays/asie.htm   (6789 words)

  
 Western Resistance: Bangladesh: 22 JMB Islamists To Hang
On August 17, more than 400 bombs were set off in 63 of the nation's 64 districts, and injured more than 100 people.
The current edition of the Star and New Nation state the JMB bomber's name as Akhtaruzzaman, who lived in Sarishabari upazila (parish) in the district of Jamalpur, in the north central region of Bangladesh.
In addition to his death sentence, the bomber was given 10 years "rigorous imprisonment" for throwing a second bomb, with another 20 years similar jail for possessing another live bomb and a fine of 50,000 Taka, which by default becomes an extra year's jail.
www.westernresistance.com /blog/archives/001720.html   (584 words)

  
 Terrorism Update
A civilian, identified as Nazeer Ahmed Kumar, was abducted by the terrorists and subsequently killed at Shopian in the Pulwama district.
In the Timra forest area of Poonch district, troops recovered one Chinese pistol, one magazine, eight grenade launchers, two Chinese hand grenades, 61 AK rounds and two kilogram of explosives.
In a separate incident, Police arrested Moulana Obaidur Rahman Ibne Fazle, younger brother of the JMB chief Abdur Rahman, at Madarganj sub-district in the Jamalpur district on September 11.
www.satp.org /satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=9/13/2005   (1979 words)

  
 Incidents-February 2002
Sadar sub-district, Satkhira district (in southwestern Bangladesh bordering the Indian state of West Bengal and the Bay of Bengal).
Deyanganj Bazaar, Jamalpur district (in northern Bangladesh bordering the Indian state of Meghalaya).
Kumira area, Sitakunda sub-district, Chittagong district (in southeastern Bangladesh bordering the Bay of Bengal and the Indian state of Tripura).
www.mayerdak.com /incid_feb02.htm   (650 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The strike on the Himgiri is the third in the Jamalpur rail district in the last one month.
The Patna rail district has witnessed a lull in similar incidents over the past three months.
However, railway authorities here feel there could be a spurt in track crime in the coming days due to the Dussehra festival.
www.telegraphindia.com /1041007/asp/nation/story_3851098.asp   (381 words)

  
 Crime News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) supremo Shaikh Abdur Rahman, locally known as Ahsan Mollah, was born in Charshi Village under Sadar Thana in Jamalpur district.
The arrested person is identified as Mohammed Ilias alias Kanchon (33), son of one Fazal Ahmed of Barashat at Anwara in the district.
The dead was identified as Asabur Khan Tipu, 27, son of Md. Akram Khan of village Bagmara under Rupsha upazila of the district.
independent-bangladesh.com /news/mar/02/02032006cr.htm   (1461 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 536   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
JMB cadre Obaidullah Suman, another accused, was hauled before the court and sent back to the district jail after hearing.
Maolana Abu Noman Mohammad Amanullah, arrested in Jamalpur on Thursday, confessed before a first class magistrate on Saturday to having direct links to the August 17 blast in the district, our Tangail correspondent adds.
Jamalpur police raided the College Road area in the town and arrested Abdullahel Kafi, 23, with important documents including a notebook, reports our Tangail correspondent.
www.thedailystar.net /2005/11/29/d51129011614.htm   (855 words)

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