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	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MEHERPUR, Dec 6:—Thirty four years ago on the night of December 6, the first capital of Bangladesh—Mujibnagar in Meherpur was liberated from the occupation of the Pakistan military junta.
		Virtually, Meherpur was liberated in the night of 6 December, 1971 and the freedom fighters entered the town chanting the powerful slogan 'Joy Bangla' with festive mood and hoisted the National Flag.
		MEHERPUR, Dec 6:–Slaughtered body of a young man was recovered from the septic tank of a toilet at Koroigachi Primary School in Gangni upazila on Saturday.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2005/12/07/district.htm (3117 words)

	Meherpur - Mujibnagar: The first revolutionary Government of Bangladesh was formed here through a proclamation of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Meherpur Sadar Upazila with an area of 374.10 sq km, is bounded by GANGNI upazila and West Bengal (India) on the north, DAMURHUDA upazila and West Bengal (India) on the south, Gangni and ALAMDANGA upazilas on the east, West Bengal (India) on the west.
		Before the partition (1947) Meherpur was a part of the Nadia district of India.
		The Meherpur subdivision was turned into a district in 1984.
	www.meherpur.com.cob-web.org:8888 (537 words)

	Meherpur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Meherpur was a small village in the district of Nadia.
		Towards the austral flank of Meherpur, there were the slums of the backward communities.
		Balaram was born in this slum in 1825.
	www.meherpur.com /vip.html (658 words)

	Meherpur zila - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Meherpur is een district (zila) in de divisie Khulna van Bangladesh.
		Meherpur is onderverdeeld in 2 upazila (subdistricten), 18 unions, 277 dorpen en 1 gemeente.
		Deze pagina is het laatst bewerkt op 12 jul 2006 om 14:07.
	nl.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Meherpur_zila (67 words)

	NFB - Arsenic menace haunts thousands in Meherpur - 05 Apr 2002
		MEHERPUR, Apr 4:—Thousands of people in three upazilas of the district have been passing their days amid arsenic menace which has been detected in underground water of the district.
		Out of 64 districts, 59 are arsenic affected of which Meherpur district is the badly arsenic affected district.
		A test case the DPHE, Meherpur, had undertaken a scheme to dig 40 ring wells in the district initially for supplying arsenic free drinking water and contractors have been selected in June, 2000 to complete the work by July, 2000, but the work started recently.
	bicn.com /acic/resources/infobank/nfb/2002-04-05-l05042002.htm (720 words)

	Nipah Virus Reemergence, Bangladesh \| CDC EID (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The field investigation took place March 6–16, 2003, and consisted of separate outbreak investigations in Meherpur and Naogaon districts, a cross-sectional study among healthcare workers in Meherpur Hospital, and an assessment of possible animal reservoirs in the outbreak regions.
		As with Meherpur, no geographic clustering of affected households was seen, but in contrast to the outbreak in Meherpur, members of affected households had no blood relationship to those in other affected households.
		In Meherpur, relatives with close contact with patients became ill, and handling or exposure to secretions of patients was found to be a risk factor for illness.
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/EID/vol10no12/04-0701.htm (3784 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Meherpur District (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Meherpur District (khulna division) with an area 716.08 sq km, is bounded by kushtia district and West Bengal of India on the north, chuadanga district and West Bengal on the south, Chuadanga and kushtia districts on the east, West Bengal on the west.
		Meherpur (Town) consists of 9 wards and 72 mahallas.
		Administration Before the partition (1947) Meherpur was a part of the Nadia district of India.
	banglapedia.org /HT/M_0211.HTM (654 words)

	NFB - Thousands passing days amid arsenic fear, 15 die of arsenic related diseases - 22 Apr 2001
		MEHERPUR, Apr 20:–Thousands of people in three Upazilas of the district have been passing their days amid arsenic menace.
		Meherpur as a western district and bordering West Bengal, India has been identified as arsenic prone area.
		Out of 64 districts, 59 districts are arsenic affected of whom perhaps Meherpur district is the highest arsenic invaded district.
	bicn.com /acic/resources/infobank/nfb/2001-04-22-nv4n545.htm (664 words)

	Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) - Home
		MEHERPUR, Oct 14 (BSS) - A court here on Tuesday sentenced a young man to death and fined him Taka one lakh for killing a schoolgirl after rape in 2003.
		Judge of the tribunal for prevention of women and child repression of Meherpur Md. Abdul Hamid handed down the verdict in presence of the accused, Manik Ferdous, 22, son of Akhter Ferdous of village Partcalpota under Meherpur sadar of the district.
		The prosecution story in brief is that Manik Ferdous raped SSC candidate Lubna Nahid Dipa, 15, daughter of Azizur Rahman on March 19, 2003, and then killed her.
	www.bssnews.net /index.php?genID=BSS-06-2004-10-14&id=7 (130 words)

	Top Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nine persons, eight in Netrakona and one in Meherpur district, were killed and over 60 others including four policemen injured as suicide bombers struck again and denonated bombs in a crowd.
		In Meherpur, a local BNP leader, Mangol Chandra, was killed and more than 10 persons injured when eleven bombs exploded at Gangni Bazar traffic crossing in Meherpur district yesterday evening.
		Our Meherpur Correspondent writes: Police sources said, about four persons riding on motorcycles came to Gangni Bazar and threw a total of 11 bombs that exploded with huge sound killing one person and injuring over 10 others at around 7.30 pm.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/dec/09/09122005ts.htm (1066 words)

	Turks.US Daily News: Bangladeshi Politician Killed in Blast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kajal Mahmud, a local leader of the governing Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was killed instantly in the attack late on Sunday in Meherpur district, said Awlad Husain, the local police chief.
		The friends were injured and were being treated in a hospital in Meherpur town, 175km west of national capital Dhaka, Husain said.
		Meherpur is a farming region, where Maoist fighters operate.
	www.turks.us /article~story~20051219082230173~mode~print.htm (181 words)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MEHERPUR, Dec 31:–The South-Western (SW) districts are considered to be the biggest vegetable producing region in the country but no processing plant has been established in any of the districts to manufacture processed items for export to foreign countries.
		MEHERPUR, Dec 31:–The intensity of winter has increased as the coldwave is flowing from north in many parts of the district.
		MEHERPUR, Dec 31:–Ahmed Ali an Awami Leaue leader who was recently released on bail has been elected as Chairman of Gangni Pourasova in by-poll was held here recently.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2005/01/01/district.htm (2744 words)

	Bangladesh: Floods - OCHA-03: 11-Oct-00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		Water levels are slowly receding in most of the affected areas of Meherpur, Chuadanga, Jhenidah and Jessore districts, but downstream in Satkhira district waters continue to rise.
		The upazilas (sub-districts) which have experienced the worst damages are Mujibnagar and Gangni in Meherpur district, Jibonnagar and Damurhuda in Chuadanga, Maheshpur in Jhendiha, Sharsha and Jhikargacha in Jessore, and Sadar, Kalaroa, Tala and Debhata in Shatkhira.
	iys.cidi.org /disaster/00b/0108.html (1841 words)

	arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh/India
		A ruling party lawmaker from Meherpur was also allegedly involved in the process by getting it approved by the ministry concerned, highly placed sources in the district administration told this correspondent.
		When contacted over cell phone, Meherpur Nurunnabi Talukdar told this correspondent, "We informed the matter to the Local Government Ministry and it allowed the Zila Parishad to sell the tress".
		BNP leaders are supposed to protect the trees but they are destroying those" Meherpur BNP Vice-president Alamgir Alam Chhatu said, "BNP will have to bear the burden of what the party lawmaker has done" Amjhupi Union Parishad Chairman and BNP leader Borhan Uddin Chunu also protested the sale of the big old trees.
	www.sos-arsenic.net /english/environment/tree.html (783 words)

	Meherpur - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dit is een doorverwijspagina, bedoeld om onderscheid te maken tussen de verschillende betekenissen en gebruiken van de term Meherpur.
		Op deze pagina staat een uitleg van de verschillende betekenissen van Meherpur en verwijzingen daarnaartoe.
		Deze pagina is het laatst bewerkt op 14 jul 2006 om 20:50.
	nl.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Meherpur (98 words)

	BANGLADESH: Villagers beaten and thirty-five persons arbitrarily arrested and detained by the police in Meherpur ...
		The arrested 35 villagers were then detained in the Meherpur jail by order of the Magistrate Court.
		The Superintendent of Police (SP) of Meherpur district, Mr.
		The Meherpur district police and the RAB authority must also compensate the victims for the loss they have suffered, and arrange all necessary medical treatment for the wounded victims. During the investigation of the police, protection must be afforded to the victims.
	www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2006/1623 (1160 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 414 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This correspondent during a visit to the area on Saturday saw about 100 labourers felling the trees with electric saws and taking away the logs by about 20 trucks.
		The Meherpur Zila Parishad sold the trees to Meherpur Sadar BNP General Secretary Saiful Islam.
		Meherpur district administration took decision to sell 87 of the tress and wrote to the Zila Parishad to arrange a bidding.
	www.thedailystar.net /2005/07/26/d50726070180.htm (795 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Bomb attack kills ruling party politician in Bangladesh
		Kajal Mahmud, a local leader of the governing Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was killed instantly in the attack late Sunday in Meherpur district, a local police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.
		Meherpur is about 175 kilometers (110 miles) west of national capital Dhaka, reports the AP.
		Kajal Mahmud, a local leader of the governing Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was killed instantly in the attack late Sunday in Meherpur district, a local police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters More details...
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/12/19/70082.html (2485 words)

	Meherpur, BANGLADESH :: city code, area code, dial code, country code
		Barabazar, Meherpur Tel: 0791-62910 Fax: 88-0791-62272; Magura Chamber of Commerce and...
		CBSDP further reported that 16 villages in Meherpur District were affected by...
		Meherpur 791 Mirzapur 922 Magura 611 Mongla 402 Moulvi Bazar 861 Manikgonj 651 Munshigonj 691 Mymensingh 91 Madaripur 661 Maijdee 321 Narail 481...
	www.prozzone.com /phone/Bangladesh/Meherpur.htm (172 words)

	Terrorism Update
		Army claimed that Waseem was one of the terrorists who had caused a series of bomb blasts at the Republic Day ceremony in Jammu on January 26, 1995 when six persons had died and then Governor, Lt Gen (Retd) K. Krishna Rao, had a narrow escape.
		The border-area of Meherpur has a large Hindu population and is reportedly also a stronghold of the outlawed Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
		A Hindi-speaking trader of Anandabag in Digboi, Thakur Gupta, was shot dead by suspected cadres of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) on January 25, according to Sentinel.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=1/26/2006 (1216 words)

	Welcome to Bangladesh Awami League
		The Awami League President made the remarks while exchanging views with her party's grassroots level leaders from Meherpur, Chuadanga and Narail districts at her Dhanmondi office in the capital Monday.
		The alliance government could give the citizenry nothing but corruption, misrule and plundering of public money over the years, Sheikh Hasina said urging the people to reach the on-going movement to its ultimate goal of achieving their constitutional rights for food and franchise.
		Presidents and general secretaries of 15 organizational units comprising six constituencies from Narail, Chuadanga and Meherpur exchanged views with their party president at the meeting on prevailing situation, party position, probable party aspirants and the current agitation program of the 14-party combine.
	www.albd.org /news/2006/08/01/01.htm (1677 words)

	WHO \| 2001 - Acute neurological syndrome in Bangladesh - Update 2
		The international team* has returned from the site of the outbreak in Meherpur district (see previous report).
		The team recommended that surveillance should be maintained to detect any recurrence of a similar nature in Meherpur or elsewhere in the country.
		It was further recommended that the capacity to detect and respond rapidly to outbreaks should be strengthened at both national and district levels through developing guidelines, establishing and training a rapid response team, and maintaining appropriate supplies and equipment for rapid response.
	www.who.int /entity/csr/don/2001_06_05e/en/index.html (216 words)

	News: Bangladesh: Floods - Aug 2000, Flooded-out Indians flee into Bangladesh, 1.7 million now affected, News: India: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Officials in Bengladesh's western Meherpur district said they had registered more than 300 Indians from Nadia district in West Bengal who have taken shelter across the border.
		An AFP photographer saw more Indian flood victims crossing into Bangladesh in Meherpur's Mujibnagar area as the waters washed away border markings.
		Meherpur residents said they have never seen a flood like this one and were taken by surprise.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/Rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/7a60356c6f391d98c12569670037912f?OpenDocument (596 words)

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		In the Meherpur outbreak, cases were more likely than non-cases to report contact with a cow during the 2 weeks before illness.
		Close contact with ill people in the Meherpur outbreak, including contact with patient secretions, was reported much more commonly in cases than in non-cases.
		Sera were collected from a variety of animals with the goal of identifying the source of the virus for these outbreaks.
	www.promedmail.org /pls/askus/f?p=2400:1001:5516743079968267325::::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_ARCHIVE_NUMBER,F2400_P1001_USE_ARCHIVE:1001,20040202.0398,Y (1269 words)

	summary report in Bangladesh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Chatian village of P.S. Gangni, district Meherpur, we came across a poor family.
		In Bagoan- Kagipara, P.S. Meherpur we also got a poor family of 22 members in the age range of 6 to 60, and out of them 21 have arsenical skin lesions and the severity of skin lesions much higher than the Islampur population.
		Stadium para (Ward No. 9) of district Meherpur, P.S. Meherpur, is one of the worst arsenic affected villages I have seen in my 13 years of survey work in West Bengal and 5 years in Bangladesh.
	www.soesju.org /arsenic/days10.htm (1587 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 378 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A businessman bought freedom by paying ransom in Kushtia on Saturday while another was injured when a gang hurled a bomb on him after failing to abduct him in Meherpur on the previous night.
		In Meherpur, some criminals threw bombs on corn trader Faruk Hossain Malitha, 29, after they failed to abduct him from Karamdi village in Gangni upazila Friday noon.
		In another incident at Dighirpara in Meherpur town, armed robbers killed Sahin Uddin, 30, and injured two others in the early hours of Saturday.
	www.thedailystar.net /2005/06/20/d50620070175.htm (379 words)

	ICDDR,B: Publication, , Outbreaks of Encephalitis Due to Nipah/Hendra-like Viruses, Western Bangladesh
		Exposure to animals may have contributed to disease transmission to humans during the outbreaks but nevertheless, the ultimate source of the virus is its zoonotic reservoir.
		In Meherpur, the first case became ill on 20 April 2001 and this was followed by 11 cases through 8 May 2001 and one additional case occurred on May 20 (Figure 1).
		In the Meherpur outbreak, cases were more likely than non-cases to report contact with a cow during the two weeks before illness.
	www.icddrb.org /pub/publication.jsp?classificationID=0&pubID=4673 (1456 words)

	Situation Reports: Bangladesh: Floods - Aug 2000, Bangladesh - Floods OCHA Situation Report No. 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The situation was aggravated when the embankments of five rivers flowing through West Bengal (the Jaladi, Bhagirathi, Mahananda, Khadki and the Chulkuni rivers) collapsed under the pressure of the floods.
		The situation in the Districts of Meherpur, Chuadanga, Jessore, and Jhinaidah, has deteriorated further with continued onrush of water from the neighbouring Indian state of West Bengal.
		Army contingents with 26 rescue boats are assisting the civil administration in conducting rescue and relief operations in the districts of Meherpur, Chuadanga, Jhinaidah, and Jessore.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/Rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/171149aaee56b1ff85256969006b5177?OpenDocument (1023 words)

	Terrorism Update
		Meanwhile, an unidentified terrorist was killed in an encounter with the security forces at Warnow Lolab in the Kupwara district.
		The two Janajuddha cadres killed at Chadpur in Gangni sub-district of Meherpur have been identified as Swapan Sheikh and Momin Uddin.
		The Janajuddha cadre killed at Soagh in Chuadanga was identified as Tomcher Ali.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=12/23/2005 (1631 words)

	200 push-in victims trapped on no-man's land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In another incident, the BDR pushed 23 people back into India through the Meherpur border, reports our Kushtia correspondent.
		Earlier, Meherpur police caught and handed them over to the BDR after a one-day interrogation.
		Another 15 people were pushed into Bangladesh through the Ruddhonagar border in Meherpur by the BSF at 6:00am yesterday.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0203/25.html (338 words)

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