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	BBC NEWS Technology Web without wires reaches out
		The Agricultural University sits on the outskirts of Mymensingh, a thriving district town about 100 kilometres north of the capital Dhaka.
		To cut the cost of net access in places such as Mymensingh, the UN agency has provided about $1.5m to launch the Sustainable Development Network Project (SDNP).
		Until now the country's largest agricultural institution, along with the town, has had no local internet service provider.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/technology/2660715.stm (448 words)

	Asia Pacific Media Network :: BANGLADESH: 10 Mymensingh journos get death threats
		Ten journalists of Mymensingh district town on Tuesday received death threats from an outlawed outfit, Janadal.
		Ten journalists of Mymensingh district town on Tuesday received death threats from an outlawed outfit, Janadal
		The extremist operatives in those letters described the journalists as enemy of the society, who under the guise of journalists, cause the country serious harm.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=12785 (448 words)

	Mymensingh District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mymensingh town, earlier known as Nasirabad, stands on the bank of Brahamputra river.
		Mymensingh district was established in 1787, which was later on reorganized into six districts, namely, Tangail, Jamalpur, Kishoreganj, Sherpur, Netrokona, and Mymensingh.
		Currently, Mymensingh district has 8 municipalities and 12 Upzillas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mymensingh_District (196 words)

	MYMENSINGH - LoveToKnow Article on MYMENSINGH
		The administrative headquarters are at Nasirabad, sometimes called Mymensingh town.
		The Jamuna forms the western boundary of Mymensingh for a course of 94 m.
		The Madhupur jungle is a slightly elevated tract, extending from the north of Dacca district into the heart of Mymensin.gh; its average height is about 60 ft. above the level of the surrounding country, and it nowhere exceeds 100 ft. The jungle contains abundance of sal, valuable both as timber and for charcoal.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MY/MYMENSINGH.htm (357 words)

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		On December 7, a national holiday as it was the day after Id-ul-Fitr, a few thousand people who had been enjoying Bengali films in four cinema halls in Mymensingh, a sleepy, traditional district town nearly 150 km from Dhaka, became victims of a terror attack that is unparalleled in terms of the magnitude of devastation.
		The government's actions following the Mymensingh blasts were challenged by Sheikh Hasina, who released a strongly worded statement in which she said that she suspected the involvement of a "terrorist fundamentalist group" within the ruling alliance in the bomb blasts.
		In what was a rare event in many years, the Mymensingh blast was followed by the arrest of two armymen and two civilians for "spying" for India.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20030103001305400.htm&date=fl1926/&prd=fline& (1516 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Mymensingh District
		Archaeological relics and monuments Rajbaris of Gauripur and Muktagachha, Shashi Lodge, Musium, Durgabari, Kella Tajpur, Mymensingh Town Hall, Bokaynagar Fort, Alexandra Castle and Gospel Church.
		Mymensingh District (dhaka division) with an area of 4363.48 sq km, is bounded by Meghalaya State of India and Garo Hills on the north, gazipur district on the south, netrokona and kishoreganj districts on the east and sherpur, jamalpur and tangail districts on the west.
		Mymensingh possesses rich literary heritage recognized through the world.
	www.banglapedia.org /HT/M_0432.HTM (656 words)

	GN Online: Four arrested after cinema blasts; toll up
		Four people were arrested yesterday on suspicion of being involved in Saturday's bomb blasts in Mymensingh, 110 km north of Dhaka.
		Hundreds of people thronged the town hospital morgue to identify victims.
		Blasts at five Mymensingh cinemas, packed with families celebrating Eid Al Fitr, killed 21 people and wounded about 300.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=70663 (567 words)

	Bangladesh Agricultural University
		The University is situated 4 kilometer south of the Mymensingh town and occupied 1200 Acres areas by the side of Old Brahamputra river.
	agri-varsity.tripod.com (90 words)

	or MYMENSINGH NASIRABAD - LoveToKnow Article on or MYMENSINGH NASIRABAD
		, or MYMENSINGH, a town of British India, headquarters of Mymensingh district in Eastern Bengal and Assam, situated on the left bank of the old channel of the Brahmaputra, which is only navigable during the rainy season.
		or MYMENSINGH NASIRABAD - LoveToKnow Article on or MYMENSINGH NASIRABAD
		It has a station on the branch of the Eastern Bengal railway from Dacca to Jagannathganj, on the Jamuna or main stream of the Brahrnaputra.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NA/NASIRABAD_or_MYMENSINGH.htm (109 words)

	Mymensingh
		In the town are Ananda Mohan College (an affiliate of Dhaka Univ.), an agricultural university, a veterinary training institute, and the Institute of Radiation Genetics and Plant Breeding.
		Mymensingh blasts part of a plot: 11-Party, THE INDEPENDENT (The Independent (Bangladesh))
		It is a trading center for rice, jute, sugar cane, oilseeds, tobacco, mustard, and pulses.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0834644.html (214 words)

	BAU at a glance
		The University is 4 kilometer south of the Mymensingh town and occupied 1200 Acres areas by the side of Old Brahamputra river.
		The BAU is operating agriculture extension programmes in 22 villages of Mymensingh Sadar thana under the direct supervision of BAU Extension Center (BAUEC).The BAU already conducted 296 training and short term pre-service and in-service courses, including 14 international courses through the Graduate Training Institute.
		The unversity is composed of six faculties covering all aspects of agricultural education and research.
	agri-varsity.tripod.com /bau-intr.html (259 words)

	1084v.htm
		Geographical Location Situated in the Madhupur tract (Mymensingh Forest Division), some 160km north of the capital city of Dhaka and 32km south-west of Mymensingh Town.
		The park is bounded by the Mymensingh-Tangail road to the south-east, forest to the north-west and by agricultural land and settlements on other sides.
		Officer-in-Charge, Madhupur National Park Headquarters, P.O. Gobtali, District Mymensingh
	sea.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/1084v.htm (1104 words)

	Local News on Bangladesh
		Meanwhile, World Vision Mymensingh ADP has started development works at some educational installations in Mymensingh town.
		World Vision Bangladesh Mymensingh ADP (Area Development Project) has distributed relief goods for the flood victims of seven unions of Dhubaura upazila in Mymensingh recently.
		Local coordinator of World Vision Mymensingh ADP Martin Singh told The Daily Star they have trained up 1161 persons in 11 unions of sadar upazila on disaster management last fiscal.
	www.sdnbd.org /sdi/news/general-news/July/13-07-2002/General.htm (3292 words)

	MYMENSINGH - LoveToKnow Article on MYMENSINGH
		The administrative headquarters are at Nasirabad, sometimes called Mymensingh town.
		The district was severely affected by the earthquake of the 12th of June 1897.
		The Madhupur jungle is a slightly elevated tract, extending from the north of Dacca district into the heart of Mymensin.gh; its average height is about 60 ft. above the level of the surrounding country, and it nowhere exceeds 100 ft. The jungle contains abundance of sal, valuable both as timber and for charcoal.
	73.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MY/MYMENSINGH.htm (3292 words)

	Mymensingh (Diocese) [Catholic-Hierarchy]
		Mailing Address: P.O. Box 37, Bhatikeswar, Mymensingh Town 2200, Bangladesh
	www.catholic-hierarchy.org /diocese/dmyme.html (63 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Mymensingh District
		Mymensingh District ( dhaka division) with an area of 4363.48 sq km, is bounded by Meghalaya State of India and Garo Hills on the north, gazipur district on the south, netrokona and kishoreganj districts on the east and sherpur, jamalpur and tangail districts on the west.
		Marks of War of Liberation Mass grave: Dakbungalow Char of Mymensingh Sadar, Chakbazar, Jelkhana Char, river bank of Shambhuganj, Boror Char, Agricultural University compound, Rasulpur of Muktagachha.
		Literacy rate among the town people is 60.4%.
	banglapedia.search.com.bd /HT/M_0432.HTM (63 words)

	District Profile
		The district headquarters of West Garo Hills is Tura, which is the second largest town in the State after Shillong.
		The West Garo Hills district lies on the western part of the state of Meghalaya bounded by the East Garo Hills district on the east, the South Garo Hills on the south-east, the Goalpara district of Assam on the north and north-west and Bangladesh on the south.
		The district council was created under the sixth schedule of the Constitution of India to preserve the traditional way of life of the people, to protect them from exploitation by others, and to make them leaders of their own progress.
	westgarohills.nic.in /profile.htm (63 words)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::.
		MYMENSINGH, Mar 27:—Standing boro crops on 400 hectares of land in Bhaluka upazila under Mymensingh district and Shreepur upazila under Gazipur district are being damaged due to construction of two rubber dams in two rivers of the upazilas in an unplanned way last year.
		Of them, Dulal, 28, and Amin, 25, were admitted to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital while Swapan, 33, Kenu Miah, 30, Asad, 18, to Sadar Hospital.
		Police said the clash ensued between the suporters of Mamun and Ferdous at Gaital in the town for establishing supremacy over the area.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2004/03/28/district.htm (63 words)

	Newsletter
		AL leader and academician Principal Motiure Rahman, a patient of heart disease at the 70s was arrested without any specific charge, while he was serving medical rehabilitation support to wounded persons and relatives of those died of a series of bomb blasts in cinema halls in Mymensingh town, two days after the explosions.
		Nonetheless he was accused to have involvement in Mymensingh Cinema Hall Blasts and thus charge-sheeted in explosion litigation.
		Despite the HC order for his release, he has been kept in jail again without any specific allegation.
	www.albd.org /newsletter/2003/vol1_no1_2003.htm (63 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> South Asia -> Bangladesh agrees to two transit routes to Bhutan through India
		Dalu is a Bhutanese town near the Indian border and Nakugaon is in northern Sherpur district of Bangladesh.
		The other is through Halughat in northern Mymensingh district bordering the Indian state of Meghalaya.
		Currently there is only one operational transit route -- through the Bhurimari point in northwestern Rangpur district -- for transportation of goods and movement of people between the two countries.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2000/09/21/21transit.html (63 words)

	Front Page
		Sources said Bangla Bhai also stayed at a house on RK Mission Road in Mymensingh town from where his wife and daughter were arrested.
		Bangla Bhai was shifted to the BDR hospital in the afternoon while Masud is undergoing treatment at the Mymensingh hospital.
		Siddiqul Islam Bangla Bhai, who shot to prominence with his infamous cleansing operation against underground, ultra-left elements in northern districts in 2004, was arrested Monday morning after a brief encounter with the Rapid Action Battalion at village Rampur under Muktagachha upazila in Mymensingh, some 120 kilometres north of the capital Dhaka.
	www.newagebd.com /front.html (8901 words)

	ipedia.com: Dhaka division Article
		Madhupur and Bhawal Garhs are located to the northern parts of Dhaka, in Gazipur, southern part of Mymensingh and eastern part of Tangail districts; Garo hills are located in Mymensingh district.
		Dhaka (Town) stands on the bank of the river Buriganga.
		Main rivers are padma, jamuna, meghna, old brahmaputra, dhaleshwari, shitalakshya, brahmaputra, buriganga, arial khan.
	www.ipedia.com /dhaka_division.html (431 words)

	Western Resistance
		The information leading to the arrest had come from Bangla Bhai's wife, who had been arrested with two other militants from JMB on Sunday night in Mymensingh town.
		News from the BBC states that Bangla Bhai (pictured) the leader of JMJB, and also a top operative in terror group Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), has been captured alive in Bangladesh's Mymensingh district, in the north of the country.
		Bangla Bhai was injured by an explosive device he had detonated, leading to loss of blood and burn and splinter injuries.
	westernresistance.com (17990 words)

	IFEX :: Media Watch July 2004 Monitoring Report
		Seven journalists from the district town of Sherpur received death threats in the mail from an unidentified group.
		Five journalists from Barguna, a district town in southern Bangladesh, received death threats from an Islamic fundamentalist group.
		A group identified as a member of Janadal sent death threats to 20 journalists in the district of Mymensingh.
	www.ifex.org /fr/content/view/full/60885 (17990 words)

	GreenBangla.com - Complete Guide to Bangladesh - Mymensingh
		Meherpur Memorial : Located at a distance of about 7 km from the town of Meherpur.
		From the foot of the Garo Hills in the north down to the plains of Dhaka in the south lies greater Mymensingh.
		Sagardari : Birth place of noted Bengalee poet Michael Madhusudhan Datta who first introduced the sonnet in Bangla poetry and is located at a distance of about 90 km from Jessore town.
	www.greenbangla.com /?Tourism:Places_of_Interest:Mymensingh&print (17990 words)

	Dhaka division
		Madhupur and Bhawal Garhs are located to the northern parts of Dhaka, in Gazipur, southern part of Mymensingh and eastern part of Tangail districts; Garo hills are located in Mymensingh district.
		Literacy rate among the town people is 62.3%.
		Administration Dhaka division consists of one city corporation, 17 districts, 58 municipalities, 21 thanas, 119 upazilas, 1239 union parishads, 12765 mouzas, 549 wards, 1623 mahallas and 25244 villages.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/dh/dhaka_division.html (422 words)

	The Human Rights Tribune: A HRCBM Publication
		As per contents of the FIR we both proceeded to Narayanpur Investigation Unit at Jamalpur by a auto rickshaw,18 kilometers from Jamalpur town nearer to the place of occurrence, as the responsibility of investigation of the aforesaid case has been entrusted with Md.Giasuddin, Sub-Inspector of Police and In-Charge of Narayanpur Investigation Unit.
		On 26th of March,2003 I along with Subrata Kumar Chanda proceeded to Jamalpur by Bus from Mymensingh at about 7-30 in the morning and reached Jamalpur at about 10-30 a.m.
		The D.C. Jamalpur admitted the incident and gave us assurance that the matter will be taken up with iron hand.
	www.hrtribune.com /News/jamalpur1.htm (422 words)

	The News Today
		The plying of the banned two-stroke three-wheelers is rampant on various routes of Jamalpur district town including all seven upazilas of the district.
		The vehicles are plying on Jamalpur-Mymensingh-Jamalpur Dhaka via Tangail, Jamalpur, Madargonj, Islampur, Malendah, Dewangonj, Sarisabari, and some other local villages routes.
		JAMALPUR, June 13: About 500 unfit motorised vehicles are plying without route permits posing a threat to lives of passengers in the district.
	www.newstoday-bd.com /home.asp?newsdate=6/14/2005 (422 words)

	University Programs & Education Institutes of Bangladesh
		The University is 4 kilometer south of the Mymensingh town and occupied 1200 Acres areas by the side of Old Brahamputra river.
		Jahangirnagar University is situated at Savar, the capital of the Sambhog principality and a flourishing Buddhist center of learning in the seventh and eighth centuries AD.
		An open university is an institution for distance education designed for those who intend to improve upon the level of their education or professional skills by studying at home or at places of their work.
	www.bdjobs.com /training/university.htm (422 words)

	Bangla programme broadcasted by different radio stations in the World
		Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858-1937) Bangali physicist.Born at Mymensingh, district town (NE of Dhaka-capital of Bangladesh).
		Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose made his historical Radio broadcast from Berlin during the World War-II in Bangla against the British Rule in India with the help of DW.
		This page on Short Wave Bangla Programmes is also dedicated to Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose.
	www.pabna.net /radio.htm (422 words)

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