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	Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP), South Asia Terrorism Portal
		September 24: Asadul, a 'district commander' of the PBCP-Janajuddha faction, was killed in crossfire between police and the outfit's cadres in the Mirpur sub-district of Kushtia 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.
		February 9: In the Jhenidah district, a PBCP- Janajuddha regional leader, Sajahan Ali, was killed in an encounter with the police at Lakhmipur village.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/bangladesh/terroristoutfits/PBCP.htm (7574 words)

	Bangladesh: Floods - OCHA-03: 11-Oct-00
		The district of Magura was flooded on 2 October as a result of an outflow of water from Jhenidah district.
		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.
		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.
	iys.cidi.org /disaster/00b/0108.html (1841 words)

	Kushtia District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A river port was developed in the district during the reign of Emperor Shahjahan.
		During the Partition of India, Kushtia was made a separate district, consisting of Kushtia Sôdor, Chuadanga and Meherpur subdivisions, in 1947.
		and is bounded by Rajshahi, Natore, Pabna districts on the north, by Chuadanga, Jhenaidah districts on the south, by Rajbari District on the east, and by West Bengal and Meherpur District on the west.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kushtia_District (612 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)

	Top Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		AL sources in different districts alleged that police swooped on the houses of opposition workers on Wednesday night and Thursday ahead of the Long March and made the mass arrests.
		According to Chuadanga district Awami League, of the total arrested, 26 are in Alamdanga upazila, 24 in Damurhuda, 10 in Jibannagar and 3 in Sadar upazila.
		Meherpur district AL president Joynal Abedin and former lawmaker Prof Abdul Mannan attended the inaugural programme at Meherpur point.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/feb/03/03022006ts.htm (1238 words)

	NFB - Thousands passing days amid arsenic fear, 15 die of arsenic related diseases - 22 Apr 2001
		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.
		A total of 500 hand pump tubwells of different villages of the district had been tested by Jaharul Islam applying the herbal method which were later tested by the indigenous and foreign experts including the DPHE and NGOs applying the modern kit method but the result was same.
	bicn.com /acic/resources/infobank/nfb/2001-04-22-nv4n545.htm (664 words)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		MEHERPUR, Apr 19:—The historic Mujibnagar Day was observed here today in a befitting manner with the fresh vow to protect the hard earned sovereignty and independence of the country and establish a happy and prosperous Bangladesh which was organized by Mujibnagar Day Celebration Central Committee (MDCCC) with the help of the Meherpur district Awami League.
		The farmers of the district have already been started sowing jute seeds in their lands due to favourable climatic condition especially the early rainfall which also encouraged the farmers to cultivate jute.
		According to district Agri-culture Extension Department (AED) sources last year 15000 hectares of land had been brought under jute cultivation in the district but this year 20,000 hectares were brought under cultivation in the district.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2005/04/20/district.htm (2410 words)

	Meherpur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		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 - Mujibnagar: The first revolutionary Government of Bangladesh was formed here through a proclamation of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		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 (534 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.
		Meherpur district administration took decision to sell 87 of the tress and wrote to the Zila Parishad to arrange a bidding.
		The bids were opened at the District Council office in presence of officials and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel, he said.
	www.sos-arsenic.net /english/environment/tree.html (783 words)

	Nipah Virus Reemergence, Bangladesh \| CDC EID
		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)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		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)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Meherpur District (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		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.
		Newspapers and periodicals Weekly Mujibnagar (1988), Weekly Meherpur (1992) and Fortnightly Pashimanchal, Monthly Sadhak (1913), Palli Shree (1935), Simanta (1962), Probaha (1979), Weekly Parichay (1985), Weekly Chumbak (1986).
	banglapedia.org /HT/M_0211.HTM (654 words)

	Top Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		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)

	Nijera Kori - Gender Equity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Gopal Nagar village is situated 5 km thana headquarters of Gangni in the district of Meherpur.
		Despite the Government administration and members of local bodies, the innocent people of Gopal Nagar were captive in the hands of a few reactionaries and fatwabaz (ritual decision-giver or prescriber of Islamic matters) forcing many people to run away from their villages.
		The fatwa prescription was condemned by the political and cultural workers, lawyers, students and Union Chairmen of Meherpur district and declared unity with the landless organisations movement.
	www.nijerakori.org /toplinks/voices/gender (1447 words)

	Terrorism Update
		The duo was identified as ‘district commander’ Abdul Gaffar alias Abu Hamza, a resident of Dera Gazi Khan in Pakistan and Shabir Ahmed, a resident of Koteranka in the Rajouri district.
		Elsewhere in the district, another HM cadre, Mukhtar Ahmed Loray alias Usama, was found dead at Chawan in the Kellar area.
		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).
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=1/26/2006 (1216 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Subhas Chandra, a local Awami League worker of Beradi village in Jhenidah district, was slaughtered on April 2 and a young girl (16) of Kalia upazila in Narail district was killed after rape the same day.
		The Awami League leader Matiar Rahman Nantu of Kayed Para village in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga district was chopped and slaughtered to death on April 5.
		Aktar Sikder, son of an Awami League leader of Terokhada upazila of Khulna district and Purba Banglar Communist Party cadre Prodip of Rupsha were killed on April 15.
	www.bangladesh-web.com /news/view1.php?hidDate=2006-02-01&hidType=SCI&hidRecord=000000000000000007921 (783 words)

	..::: Department of Prisons :::.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Second, district jails located at the headquarters of districts confine civil and criminal prisoners.
		The district jails are again categorized into ‘first’, ‘second’, ‘third’ and ‘fourth’ classes, depending on the average number of prisoners that each one of them keeps in a given year.
		To hold those people in jail who are arrested by the police in accordance with orders of the courts for violations of laws of the land.
	www.mha.gov.bd /DeptOfPrisons.php (518 words)

	IFEX :: Media Watch July 2004 Monitoring Report
		Five journalists from Barguna, a district town in southern Bangladesh, received death threats from an Islamic fundamentalist group.
		Nur Bangali, a correspondent for "Bhorer Kagoj" in Meherpur district, was severely injured when an unidentified assailant attacked him with a knife.
		Seven journalists from the district town of Sherpur received death threats in the mail from an unidentified group.
	www.ifex.org /es/content/view/full/60885 (1200 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)

	arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh/India
		Meherpur is wasters district and bordering West Bengal, India has been identified as arsenic prone.
		It may be stated that out of 65 districts 59 districts are arsenic affected of which perhaps Meherpur district in the highest arsenic invaded district.
		Oct 30 : Arsenic menace is spreading its tentacles in Munshiganj district.
	www.sos-arsenic.net /english/latest.html (14970 words)

	Incidents-October 2001 (Part One)
		Villages of Pirojpur district (in southern Bangladesh bordering the Bay of Bengal).
		Barisal district (in southern Bangladesh bordering the Bay of Bengal).
		Khajanchapur village, Barishal district (in southern Bangladesh bordering the Bay of Bengal).
	www.mayerdak.com /incid_oct01pt1.htm (1823 words)

	3 to die for murder in Meherpur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Three persons were sentenced to death while another life-imprisonment in the sensational Ashraful murder case at Shaharbatty village under Gangni upazila in the district.
		Meherpur District and Sessions Judge Abdul Hamid delivered the judgement in a crowded courtroom on Sunday.
		Of the three convicts awarded death penalty, Atique Mollah and Khairul were tried in absentia while Barkat is in custody.
	nation.ittefaq.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/24/13980/printer (112 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 /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: 2007-10-06)
		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.
		Meherpur residents said they have never seen a flood like this one and were taken by surprise.
		The floods this week have inundated eight Bangladeshi districts bordering India's submerged West Bengal state, officials said, including two new ones over the past 24 hours.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/Rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/7a60356c6f391d98c12569670037912f?OpenDocument (596 words)

	Diocese of Rajshahi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Francis Rocca, a Mossionary of the pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions of Milan (PIME), who came from Pakuria in Meherpur District, south of the Mighty Ganges on January 29, 1902 to provide Pastoral assistance to Mr.
		With the growth and Extension of the Church in North Bengal, the need was felt to create a new diocese which Comprieses of the southern districts of the diocese of Dinajpur to further the work of Evangelisation.
		The Most Rev. Theotonius Gomes, CSC, The Bishop of Dinajpur initiated the process of erection of the Diocese of Rajshahi which was announced on June 9, 1990, and the most rev. Patrick D' Rozario, CSC was appointed as the first Bishop of the new Diocese.
	www.bangladesh-christian.com /catholic/rajshahi/diocese_of_rajshahi.htm (468 words)

	Terrorism Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Another civilian was injured in a LTTE attack in the Kattaparichchan area of Trincomalee district.
		A ‘deputy district commander’ of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) outfit, identified as Farooq Ahmed Bhat alias Aaquib alias Junaid, was killed in an encounter with the security forces (SFs) at Thathu hamlet in the Kund area of Anantnag district.
		Two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI—Maoist) cadres, including ‘district committee secretary’ Jagadeesh, were killed in an encounter with the police at Edugurallapalli forest near Chintoor in the Khammam district along the Andhra Pradesh—Chhattisgarh border on June 21, according to The Hindu.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=6/22/2006 (2317 words)

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