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	Jessore District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jessore is a district in south western region of Bangladesh.
		Jessore District (khulna division) with an area of 2578.20 sq km, is bounded by jhenaidaha and magura districts on the north, satkhira and khulna districts on the south, narail and Khulna districts on the east, West Bengal of India on the west.
		Jessore saw its share of action during the Bangladesh Liberation War remaining the pivotal point of action between the Mitro Bahini (India and Bengali guerillas) and the Pakistan Army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jessore (857 words)

	KROTAN - LoveToKnow Article on KROTAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		KRULNA, a town and district of British India, in the Presi- dency division of Bengal.
		It is the most important centre of river-borne trade in the delta.The DISTRICT OF KHULNA lies in the middle of the delta of the Ganges, including a portion of the Sundarbans or seawardfringe of swamps.
		The district is enteredby the Bengal Central railway, but by far the greater part ofthe traffic is carried by water.See District Gazetteer (Calcutta, 1908).
	2.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KR/KROTAN.htm (2360 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Bangladesh - Floods OCHA Situation Report No. 4
		Flood waters spread to Chuadanga district on 23 September, to Jhenidah district on 24 September, to Jessore district on 26 and to Satkhira district on 28 September.
		The district of Magura was flooded on 2 October as a result of an outflow of water from Jhenidah district.
		As a whole the flood-affected districts have food surpluses, though the people affected by the floods and stranded in specific areas were found by the mission to be receiving irregular and inadequate food supplies.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/339dbc0459e8d112c12569750060faa4 (1939 words)

	JESSORE - Online Information article about JESSORE
		principal rivers are the Madhumati or Haringhata (which forms the eastern boundary of the district), with its tributaries the Nabaganga, Chitra, and Bhairab; the Kumar, Kabadak, Katki, Harihar, Bhadra and Atharabanka.
		century the rivers in the interior of Jessore have ceased to be true deltaic rivers; and, whereas the northern portion of the district formerly See also:
		The district is crossed by the Eastern Bengal railway, but the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /JEE_JUN/JESSORE.html (537 words)

	BACKERGUNJE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The general aspect of the district is that of a flat even country, dotted with clusters of bamboos and betelnut’ trees, and intersected by a perfect network of dark-coloured and sluggish streams.
		All the ris~ers in the district are subject to tidal action from the Meghna on the north, and from the Bay of Bengal on the south, anti nearly all of them are navigable at high tide by country boats of all sizes.
		The Faraizis or Puritan sect of Mahommedans are exceedingly numeroi~s in the district.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/ba/Backergunje.htm (1126 words)

	Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		According to a non-government organisation (NGO), Swapna Shajja Sangstha, Jessore, a total of 31 murders were committed during this period in all the nine thanas of the district.
		The journalists of the 10 districts of the south-western region of the country, representatives of NGOs and government officials took part in the workshop held at the conference room of the Deputy Commissioner of Jessore on August 19.
		Jessore district and Satkhira district is safest route for women and child trafficking.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/aug/28/28082005ct.htm (3642 words)

	GANGES - LoveToKnow Article on GANGES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It proceeds by a tortuous course through the districts of Dehra Dun, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Bulandshahr and Farukhabad, in which last district it receives the Ramganga.
		Thus far the Ganges has been little more than a series of broad shoals, long deep pools and rapids, except, of course, during the Irielting of the snows and throughout the rainy season.
		The upper angle of it consists of rich and fertile districts, such as Murshidabad, Nadia, Jessore and the 24 Parganas.
	67.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GA/GANGES.htm (1163 words)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the meantime, water in Monirampur and Keshobpur under Jessore district and two upazilas of Satkhira district rose to one feet with last four days and at least 50 villages were flooded.
		District Agriculture Extension Department of Manikganj official said, crops including transplanted aman and vegetables on 8,000 hectars have been damaged by the rain water in seven upazilas of the district.
		Most of the areas of the district have gone under three to four feet water while the condition of low-lying lands is worse.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2005/10/24/front.htm (6750 words)

	WELCOME TO C.
		As suggested in the district gazetteers which serve the purpose of one of the earliest sources of ethnographical and sociological information, the Namasudras and the Paundra-Khatriyas are basically one and the same community, and that both were formerly called Chandals.
		But the district gazetteers updated during the subsequent periods could at best be considered as mere reproductions of their original versions with very little new information incorporated in them.
		The Southwest Coastal Region of Bangladesh consists of the districts of Khulna, Satkhira and Bagerhat, together with the southern portion of Jessore district.
	www.cdp.20m.com /indigenousppl.html (7766 words)

	Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP), South Asia Terrorism Portal
		March 18: A BNP leader is killed in a bomb attack allegedly by the cadres of the PBCP (Janajuddha faction) in the southwestern Mongla town.
		August 16: A BCP activist is killed at Betbaria village of the Chuadanga district by suspected extremists of the rival PBCP.
		December 09: A cadre of the PBCP is shot dead by a rival faction at Fulahari village in Shailakupa sub-division.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/bangladesh/terroristoutfits/PBCP.htm (3840 words)

	Women of 1971 :: Profile of 7 women
		After that she was taken to Jessore Cantoment camp where Halima had to undergo various kinds of torture including sexual slavery.
		She was taken to the Jessore Cantonment afterwards and remained in this camp for six months.
		In a severe injured condition she was brought to the Jessore Cantonment camp and kept in a dark cell.
	www.drishtipat.org /1971/profile.htm (1092 words)

	What A Gazetteer is Not by Kumud Biswas
		Every district and sub-divisional office had a small library of its own where gazetteers and allied literature were easily available.
		As a geographical unit many Indian districts are larger than some states elsewhere and the number of souls the former contain is more than the latter do.
		For, metaphorically speaking, every district has a personality of its own — certain peculiarities which are unique and uncommon — and it should be the endeavor of the compiler to bring out that personality.
	www.boloji.com /environment/21.htm (1851 words)

	BBC News \| South Asia \| Bangladesh gets tough on extremists
		In a village outside the south-western town of Jessore, an old woman I met says her son was killed by political extremists.
		Thousands of people came to watch a recent surrender in Jessore, but afterwards many said the arms they saw being handed over were old and rusty - and not the automatic weapons they have seen the gangs use against each other and the police.
		Many people in the district believe that the armed groups' ringleaders have crossed the nearby border with India and they are hiding there.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/south_asia/388312.stm (616 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The government has undertaken a comprehensive programme for sinking tubewells in the rural areas and as a part of the programme 72 tubewells were installed in Keshabpur upazila of Jessore district by Public Health Engineering Department recently.
		Arsenic contamination was found in the water of tubewells of Jessore, Satkhira Khulna, Meherpur Chuadanga, Kushtia and Rajshahi along the border district in the 1996.
		There are many villages in Jessore district where water 90 to 98 per cent tubewells was contaminated with arsenic contents.
	www.eng-consult.com /arsenic/as204.txt (298 words)

	Sundarbans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For example, people in Jessore District still speak of a certain Mehr 'Ali who is said to have come to the jungles of Jessore from the Deccan in the early Mughal period, accompanied by his sister and another companion.
		Indeed, the entire district is composed, literally, of an amalgamation of marsh lands formed by the merging of islands brought into existence and built up by alluvial soils washed down the great channels of the combined Brahmaputra-Ganges-Meghna river systems.
		In Sylhet and Mymensingh districts, there are many places whose names end with the suffix dwip, or "island," pointing to a period when much more of the delta was covered with permanent masses of water than is now the case.
	www.smartoffice.com /Tiger/Eaton.html (6253 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gujarat State, India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gujarat is home to several National Parks, including Gir National Park (Girnar), near Junagadh, Velavadar National Park in Bhavnagar District, Vandsa National Park in Bulser District, and Marine National Park on the Gulf of Kutch in Jamnagar District.
		Gujarat was placed under the control of Bombay Presidency, with the exception of Baroda state, which had a direct relationship with the Governor-General of India.
		From 1818 to 1947, most of present-day Gujarat, including Kathiawar, Kutch, and northern and eastern Gujarat were divided into dozens of princely states, but several districts in central and southern Gujarat, namely Ahmedabad, Broach (Bharuch), Kaira, Panch Mahals, and Surat, were ruled directly by British officials.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gujarat-State,-India (1860 words)

	Bangladesh Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Martyr (Shaheed) Captain Mohiuddin Jahangir, BS Born: 1948 in the village of Rahimgonj under Babugonj upazilla of Barisal district.
		Born: at Bagpachra in the district of Noakhali in 1934.
		Embraced martyrdom while engaging the enemy with fire for covering the extrication of fellow soldiers at Goalhati in Jessore district on September 5 1971.
	www.bangladesharmy.info /history/birsreshtho.htm (460 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It has been revealed that the presence of arsenic in the tubewell water of the districts is 4 to 45 per cent instead of the UN approved 0.01 per cent.
		Some villages under the border thana Sarsha of Jessore district are the worst affected.
		The people of Uzzalpur village under Meherpur district said that flesh from the bodies of some arsenic-infected persons was taken as simple for test a long time ago.
	www.eng-consult.com /arsenic/as32.txt (627 words)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Dhaka bound private buses to the people from Meherpur, Chuadanga, Kushtia, Darshana, Jessore and Khulna via Jhenidah can accommodate small number of passengers of Jhenidah district which is insufficient to cope with the rush of the passengers.
		The passengers of the district have to pay full fare for their journey to Dhaka and return journey although the passengers board the buses from Jhenidah.
		Every year three to four crops were grown in this district but at present it is impossible to grow crops near the brick fields as soil fertility is declining gradually in the surrounding areas of the brick fields.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2004/03/17/district.htm (1945 words)

	Incidents-October 2002
		Bajitpur village, Manirampur sub-district, Jessore district (in southwestern Bangladesh bordering the Indian state of West Bengal).
		Tangail district district (proximately north of the capital city of Dhaka).
		Joymonirkhol village, Mongla sub-district, Bagerhat district (in southwestern Bangladesh near the Bay of Bengal).
	www.mayerdak.com /incid_oct02.htm (909 words)

	Long-Term Transformations in the Sundarbans Wetlands Forests of Bengal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		However, in the same period, the occupied and settled area increased from 66% to 93% of the district area (a net increase of 4,027 sq km).39 On average, the settled area of the district thus expanded by 36 sq km per year, a rate three times that of natural accretion.
		The district officer of Jessore commented that it was a group of "comfortably-circumstanced class of people residing immediately north of the Sundarbans" who were the primary entrepreneurs in land reclamation, not the wealthiest, large estate-holders:72
		I, Districts of the 24 Parganas and Sundarbans (London, Trubner and Co., 1875).
	www.smartoffice.com /tiger/id76.htm (10433 words)

	Country News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Moreover, the soil and the overall climate of Jhenidah district are conducive to linseed cultivation, he added.
		April-May is chosen as the peak time to catch the highest quantity of fish as water of the lake recedes to the lowest level of nine meter during the period.
		Activists of Jubo League of the district unit staged a demonstration at Eliotganj Bazar under Daudkandi Upazila on May 22 protesting police attack on the central leaders of Jubo League, including chairman of Jubo League Jahangir Kabir Nanak.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/may/26/26052005ct.htm#A2 (3563 words)

	Khulna Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The country's second sea-port, Mongla Port and the only ship building industry of the country is also located within Khulna division.
		The largest mangrove forest in the World the Sundarban is spread over the three districts of Shatkhira, Khulna and Bagherhat in the division.
		The division boasts some of the finest educational institutions in Bangladesh including including the Islamic University, Khulna University, Jhenaidaha Cadet College and Jessore Cantonment Public School.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khulna_Division (259 words)

	Incidents-May 2001
		Ranabati village, Abhaynagar sub-district, Jessore district (in southwest Bangladesh bordering the Indian state of West Bengal).
		Sadar police station, Jessore district (in southwest Bangladesh bordering the Indian state of West Bengal).
		Krishnanagar village, Kaliganj sub-district, Satkhira district (in southwest Bangladesh bordering the Indian state of West Bengal and the Bay of Bengal).
	www.mayerdak.com /incid_may01.htm (857 words)

	Bangladesh's agent of change
		As founder and executive director of the Jessore (Bangladesh)-based NGO Banchte Shekha (Bangla for `Learning to Survive') she has waged many battles against vested interests and religious leaders, and today she has stilled the voices of numerous critics who have relentlessly slung mud at her.
		The Union Parishad chairperson of the district was reluctant to speak out against Zahida's husband because he was afraid of losing the men's vote at the elections.
		She would visit the villages in and around Jessore and find herself surrounded by needy and destitute women who received poor wages for their work and did not have the resources to feed themselves and their families.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20000203/ian03024.html (1109 words)

	The News Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A target of producing 44,84,254 tonnes of T-Aman rice from 17,88,669 hectares was fixed in the 16 northern districts during the current 2005-2006 season, DAE officials said.
		Jessore, Dec. 29: Against the backdrop of series of bomb blast and recovery of huge arms and ammunitions in different areas of Bangladesh in recent days, the Border Security Force (BSF) of India have beefed up security along their border belt, according to available reports.
		Jessore, Dec 29: Benapole Immigration Police arrested Babul, the principal aid of the top most terror of Dhaka, Picchi Hannan, on Sunday while he was returning to the country form India.
	www.newstoday-bd.com /home.asp?newsdate=12/30/2005 (2048 words)

	::- Jessore.info -:: Narail district (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Narail District with an area of 990.23 sq km, is bounded by magura district on the north, khulna district on the south, faridpur and gopalganj districts on the east, jessore district on the west.
		Historical events Indigo Revolt was organised in this district during 1859-60; in 1946 Tebhaga movement was held in the district.
		Health centres District sadar hospital 1, upazila health complex 2, maternity and child welfare centre 1, mission hospital 1, family welfare centre 33, satellite clinic 7, private clinic 6, charitable hospital 4, veterinary hospital.
	www.jessore.info /history/narail.php (676 words)

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