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  Meet Bangladesh :: Travel Khulna
Khulna is the third biggest industrial city of the country.
Khulna is also famous for shrimp processing and newsprint.
It is also the land for the ordinary holiday makers who desire to rest or wander around at will to refresh their mind and feast their eyes with the rich treasure that nature has so fondly bestowed.
www.discoverybangladesh.com /meetbangladesh/khulna.html   (1154 words)

  
 Khulna Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Khulna Division is an administrative region in south-west Bangladesh.
Khulna was the backbone of the East Pakistan's main foreign currency earner Jute industry.
The largest mangrove forest in the World the Sundarban is spread over the three districts of Shatkhira, Khulna and Bagherhat in the division.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khulna_division   (242 words)

  
 Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP), South Asia Terrorism Portal
September 5: A local-level leader of the PBCP-Lal Pataka faction, identified as Zia, was killed in a shootout between the police and PBCP cadres at Ramchandrapur in the Santhia sub-district of Pabna district.
September 4: Saifuzzaman alias Shoaib alias Ripon, second-in-command of the PBCP-Janajuddha faction, was killed in a shootout with the RAB personnel at Katakhali crossing in the Rupsha sub-district of Khulna district.
January 17: Didarul Islam Palash alias Shyamal, 'operational commander' of the Khulna Metropolitan city unit of the PBCP-Janajuddha faction, was killed in a shootout with the police at Sonadanga in the Khulna district.
www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/bangladesh/terroristoutfits/PBCP.htm   (6664 words)

  
 Urban Design in Contemporary Society
Khulna, the third largest and one of the ancient cities of Bangladesh up hold the salient features of organic development as traditional city.
With all its prosperity during the British period, Khulna was declared a municipal town in 1884.
Calcutta-Jessore railway was extended to Khulna in 1885 and Khulna railway station was setup in 1904, which was a major impetus for the growth of Khulna.
www.archiport.it /mridha_hafizur.htm   (1638 words)

  
 CLUSTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Khulna is the third largest thriving city of Bangladesh.
Khulna is surrounded by picturesque country side, winding rivers and a host of development centers.
Khulna University stands on the Khulna-Satkhira road, some four kilometers away from the heart of the city.
www.cluster-ku.org /ku.html   (262 words)

  
 Diocese of Khulna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Diocese of Khulna was canonically erected on Jan. 3,1952.
On June 14, 1956 the Episcopal See was transferred from jessore to the larger city of Khulna and since then this has been called the Diocese of Khulan.
There was no other Christian Church in the area comprising the present Khulna Diocese until the arrival of the PIME Missionaries in 1856.
www.bangladesh-christian.com /catholic/khulna/diocese_of_khulna.htm   (240 words)

  
 Meet Bangladesh - Khulna
Khulna is also easily accessible (58 km by road) from Jessore which is 20 minutes by air from Dhaka.
Khulna serves as the gateway to the sea port of Mongla and the Sundarbans, the beautiful forest.
A paddle-steamer journey between Dhaka and Khulna on the rivers running through the green countryside is an unforgettable experience.
www.bdcom-online.com /tourplan/khulna.htm   (405 words)

  
 Sundarban
In the south-western part of Bangladesh, in the district of greater Khulna, lies the Sundarbans, the beautiful forest.
south-east of khulna on the northern fringes of the Sundarbans.
It is a district headquarters, Bagerhat is famous for Shait-gumbad mosque (60-domed) built in 1459 and shrine of the Muslim mystic Khan Jahan Ali.
www.bangladeshonline.com /tourism/spots/sundar.htm   (1139 words)

  
 AsiaMedia :: BANGLADESH: Bomb kills Khulna journalist
Khulna Press Club called a daylong hartal in the metropolitan city for tomorrow as part of a seven-day programme that includes wearing of fl badges, protest rally, mourning procession and hoisting of fl flags atop local newspaper offices.
Khulna district and city units of Puja Udjapan Parishad condemned the murder of Manik, one of parishad leaders.
Khulna Union of Journalists and Metropolitan Union of Journalists also condemned the killing and demanded arrest of the killers in 24 hours.
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=6531   (662 words)

  
 Khulna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Khulna (population ~660,000) is the third-largest city of Bangladesh, located on the bank of the rivers Rupsha and Bhairob.
It is the capital of Khulna Division and is a major industrial and commercial center.
It has a seaport named Mongla on its outskirts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khulna   (156 words)

  
 Virtual Bangladesh : Khulna
Khulna with nearly 2 million people and one of the country's industrial city stands on the Rupsa River.
supply Khulna's industries, which include jute, oilseed, cotton-textile, paper, and board mills and match and newsprint factories.
Khulna is one of our four metropolitan cities and has a university, a Medical college, a BIT, a Cantonment (Zahanabad Sena Nibash not with a full division), a Naval Base (BNS Titumir), the country's only Telephone Cable and Newsprint industry.
www.virtualbangladesh.com /bd_cities_khulna.html   (131 words)

  
 Virtual Bangladesh : Khulna Division
The Division of Khulna is considerably influenced by the tributaries of the Ganges, which find their way into the Bay of Bengal through a vast maze of waterways, making two-thirds of Khulna marshland or dense jungle consisting of mangrove swamps, an absolute haven for wildlife.
Khulna is a thriving industrial and shipping center.
The trip takes anything from 20 hours to 24 hours, depending on the state of the rivers, and is a wonderful way of exploring the Sundarbans, seeing the river life and reminiscing on what travel in India must have been like at the beginning of the century.
www.virtualbangladesh.com /bd_tour_khulna.html   (864 words)

  
 Reporters sans frontières - Bangladesh
A Khulna police officer, Mofazzal Hossain, was arrested on 16 February for suspected collusion with armed Maoist militants who have carried out a number of bombings, including that at the city’s press club.
A police officer assigned to the Sadar police station in Khulna was fired for "negligence" on 6 February, the day after the bombing at the Khulna press club in which four journalists were wounded, two seriously.
The dismissal came the same day that journalists demonstrated in Khulna to demand the replacement of the city’s new police superintendent, Javed Patwari, and a thorough investigation into why a patrol that was supposed to be protecting the press club was withdrawn on the evening of the bombing.
www.rsf.org /article.php3?id_article=12496   (964 words)

  
 Drishtipat: Voice of Human Rights - BBC stringer killed in bomb attack
Manik Saha, 45, was the Khulna correspondent of the New Age newspaper and president of the Khulna press club.
Journalists in Khulna staged a street protest and blamed his death on the ever-deteriorating law and order situation in the south-west of the country.
A powerful bomb killed fifty-year old Saha, the Khulna correspondent of New Age newspaper, a BBC stringer and a former president of the Khulna Press Club on January 15, as he was coming back after covering a political program.
www.drishtipat.org /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=76   (2851 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Khulna
Khulna, city, southwestern Bangladesh, in Khulna District, on the Kazi Bacha River, near the Ganges delta.
Jessore, city in southwestern Bangladesh, in Khulna Division.
Jessore is located about 50 km (about 30 mi) northwest of Khulna on the Bhairab River...
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=Khulna&pg=1&grp=med   (87 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 250   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Daily Sangram Khulna Bureau Chief Sheikh Belaluddin Ahmed, the most severely injured in Saturday night's bomb blast at the Khulna Press Club, was flown yesterday to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in the capital.
Khulna City BNP President M Nurul Islam MP, local journalists, high officials of local civil and police administrations, and a large number of leaders of Jamaat, BNP and Awami League were present at the Khulna helipad when the chopper took off at 12:00noon.
They demanded immediate removal of Khulna Police Commissioner Javed Patwary and also an impartial enquiry to find out why security forces were withdrawn from the press club on Saturday, which is believed to have made ample opportunity for the terrorists to launch a remote-controlled bomb attack on the club.
www.thedailystar.net /2005/02/07/d5020701066.htm   (860 words)

  
 Khulna City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Khulna is a divisional city in southwestern Bangladesh.
Khulna has a university, a Medical college, a BIT, a Cantonment (Zahanabad Sena Nibash not with a full division), a Naval Base (BNS Titumir), the country's only Telephone Cable and Newsprint industry.
Khulna Division consists of the districts of Khulna, Satkhira, Bagerhat, Jessore, Jhinaidah, Magura, Narail, Kustia, Chuadanga, and Meherpur.
www.bangla2000.com /Bangladesh/Cities/khulna.shtm   (135 words)

  
 Khulna on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Khulna AL reluctant to take part in Nov 12 by-election, THE INDEPENDENT
Razakars (collaborators), prisonners of the Mukti Bahini, are shown to the photographers.
The 'Bagchara Camp, 24 Parganas District, Bengean Sub Division.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/k/khulna.asp   (400 words)

  
 Bangladesh: Editor killed in bomb blast in Khulna
Khulna: 27 June: Humayun Kabir Balu, president of the Khulna Press Club and editor of a local daily, the Janmabhumi, was killed in a bomb attack near the entrance of his newspaper office-cum-residence on Islampur Road in the city this afternoon.
He was elected the first general secretary of the Khulna Press Club after the merger of its two factions in 1984.
Critically injured Balu was immediately rushed to a private hospital, Khulna Surgical and Medical Hospital, at Sonadanga residential area and later shifted to the Khulna Medical College Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries at about 1-32 pm.
www.newssafety.com /stories/bbc/bangladesh28.htm   (854 words)

  
 Crime News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Sept 5 : A top terror of Khulna, Md Saifuzzaman alias Shoaib alias Ripon alias Babu, 30, was killed in an encounter between RAB members and his associates in Rupsha upazila of Khulna district early today (Monday).
Sept 5: A court in Khulna awarded life term to eleven accused persons today for killing two brothers in Dumuria upazila of Khulna district in 1997.
Khulna district and sessions judge AKM Istiaq Husain gave the verdict in the double murder case in a crowded court room this morning.
independent-bangladesh.com /news/sep/06/06092005cr.htm   (1176 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 255   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
With this, the death toll of journalists in Khulna district rose to six and in the outlaw-infested southwestern region to 14 in the last 10 years.
Khulna Metropolitan Police last night arrested a man, who confessed to being involved in planting the bomb on Belal's motorbike parked on the Khulna Press Club (KPC) premises, said Deputy Police Commissioner M Akbar Ali.
According to our Khulna Correspondent, the letter signed by PBCP Khulna regional leader Sayed Hasan alias Sumon on behalf of the party's central committee said the attack was part of their ongoing operation to what they said was eliminate class enemies.
thedailystar.net /2005/02/12/d5021201011.htm   (1120 words)

  
 BANGLAIMAGE ::: STYLE & BEAUTY
Khulna division is in the southwest part of Bangladesh has an area of 22274 sq.
FOREST LIMITS: North-Bagerhat, Khulna and Sathkira districts : South-Bay of Bengal; East-Baleswar (or Haringhata) river, Perojpur, Barisal district, and West-Raimangal and Hariabhanga rivers which partially form Bangladesh boundary with West Bengal in India.
This is another tourist spot, which is in Jessore district, under Khulna Division.
www.banglaimage.com /travel/khulna.php   (2444 words)

  
 About Khulna University of Engineering & Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), started functioning from September 2003, is one of the five technological Universities in Bangladesh having an objective of achieving excellence in higher education, research and development in engineering and technology.
This university was established as Khulna Engineering College in 1974, the college was later converted to a degree awarding autonomous institution called Bangladesh Institute of Technology (BIT), Khulna in July 1986 through an ordinance (No. XXI, 1986) of Government of Bangladesh.
Khulna University of Engineering and Technology Campus is situated at Fulbarigate, 11 km north from the Khulna city and by the side of the Khulna-Jessore highway.
www.kuet.ac.bd /about.htm   (334 words)

  
 Khulna Office   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Khulna office is one of the important branches of Bangladesh Bank.
Khulna office works as per policies and guidelines issued by the Head office.
The jurisdiction of the office covers the districts of Khulna, Bagerhat, Satkhira, Jessore, Narail, Jhenidah, Magura and Gopalgong for banking inspection purpose.
www.bangladesh-bank.org /about/branches/khulna.html   (244 words)

  
 Reporters sans frontières - Bangladesh
The editor of a regional daily in south-western Khulna has been killed in a bomb attack, less than six months after the murder there of a BBC World Service local correspondent.
Khulna journalists announced a week of demonstrations to call for justice and to pay tribute to their colleague, a veteran of the 1971 war of independence.
A Reporters Without Borders and BCDJC delegation went to Khulna in March 2002, in response to warnings from press club leaders, including Manik Shaha and Humayun Kabir Balu, about the constant threat to the local press from far-left movements, which after years of armed struggle, had really turned themselves into criminal gangs.
www.rsf.org /article.php3?id_article=10847   (541 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Khulna (Pakistan And Bangladesh Political Geography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
AllRefer.com - Khulna (Pakistan And Bangladesh Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
It is a river port and the trade and processing center for the products of the Sundarbans, a swampy, forested coastal region.
Khulna has several colleges affiliated with Rajshahi Univ.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Khulna.html   (153 words)

  
 The Bangladesh Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Khulna is situated at the south-western part of Bangladesh.
In a letter dropped at the letterbox of the Daily Purbanchal, the outlawed party said they carried out the bomb attack at the press club to kill Belal as he was behind the arrest of their party comrade Mofiz.
Meanwhile, Khulna Press Club, Khulna Union of Journalists, Metropolitan Union of Journalists and Photo Journalists Association announced three-day's programmes at the death of Sheikh Belaluddin.
www.bangladeshjournal.com /index.php?ID=3291&tim=11-2-2005   (807 words)

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