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Topic: Narayanganj District


  
  DACCA - LoveToKnow Article on DACCA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
from the terminus of the river steamers at Narayanganj.
The district of Dacca comprises an area of 2782 sq.
In 1901 the population was 2,649,522, showing an increase of 11% in the decade.
14.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DA/DACCA.htm   (600 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Bangladesh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
// Barisal Division Barguna Barisal Bhola Jhalokati Patuakhali Pirojpur Chittagong Division Bandarban Brahmanbaria Chandpur Comilla Coxs Bazar Feni Khagrachhari Lakshmipur Noakhali Rangamati Chittagong Dhaka Division Dhaka Faridpur Gazipur Gopalganj Jamalpur Kishoreganj Manikganj Maradipur Munshiganj Mymensingh Narayanganj Narsingdi Netrokona Rajbari Shariatpur Sherpur Tangail Khulna Division Bagherhat Chuadanga Jessore Jhenaidaha Khulna Kushtia...
Mymensingh is one of the districts of Dhaka division, Bangladesh, and is bordered on the north by Meghalaya state of India and Garo Hills, on the south by Gazipur district, on the east by districts of Netrokona and Kishoreganj, and on the west by districts of Sherpur, Jamalpur and Tangail.
Bogra is a northern district of Bangladesh, in the Rajshahi Division.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bangladesh   (5503 words)

  
 Narayanganj District - tScholars.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Narayanganj district is bounded by GAZIPUR and NARSINGDI districts on the north, BRAHMANBARIA and COMILLA districts on the east, MUNSHIGANJ district on the south, and Dhaka district on the west.
Narayanganj a former sub-division of DHAKA district was upgraded to a district in February 1984.
Narayanganj is also home to the Bangladesh Engineering and Ship Building Corporation, established in 1925 at Sonakanda on the east bank of the Shitalakshya River.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Narayanganj_District   (658 words)

  
 Articles - Brahmanbaria District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Brahmanbaria is bounded by Kishoreganj District and Habiganj District on the north, Comilla District on the south, Habiganj District and Tripura State, India on the east and Meghna River, Kishoreganj District, Narsingdi District and Narayanganj District on the west.
The geography of the district is characterized by low-lying land with small hills and hillocks of red soil.
The main rivers of the district are the Meghna River, and the Titas River.
www.mafox.com /articles/Brahmanbaria_District   (175 words)

  
 .:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
One hundred and thirty six medical teams however, have been working in the district and they are facing difficulties for want of boats and other means of communications to extend proper treatment facilities to the patients.
The eleven districts are Barisal, Patuakhali, Barguna, Bhola, Pirojpur and Jhalokathi under the Barisal division and Faridpur, Madaripur, Gopalganj, Sariatpur and Rajbari in Faridpur region.
It was said that these districts were not submerged by floodwaters but the on rush of high and low tidal waters that is flooding the areas time to time.
www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2004/08/06/district.htm   (1719 words)

  
 Incidents-March 2001
Narayanganj district (due east of the capital city of Dhaka).
Bejoy Sarkar (age 27), a member of the local Hindu minority community and the son of Bhabesh Sarkar, was a resident of the village of Kashipur located in the Natore district (in western Bangladesh close to the Indian state of West Bengal).
Angalbandh, Sonargaon sub-district, Narayanganj district (east of the capital city of Dhaka).
www.mayerdak.com /incid_mar01.htm   (838 words)

  
 BANGLAPEDIA: Narayanganj District
Narayanganj District (dhaka division) with an area of 759.57 sq km, is bounded by narsingdi and gazipur districts on the north, munshiganj districts on the south, brahmanbaria and comilla districts on the east, dhaka districts on the west.
The district consists of five upazilas, 49 union parishads, 881 mouzas, 1374 villages, 2 municipalities, 12 wards and 115 mahallas.
The upazilas are araihazar, bandar, narayanganj sadar, rupganj, and sonargaon.
banglapedia.net /HT/N_0057.HTM   (713 words)

  
 Narayanganj, Bangladesh - Current News & Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Golakandi is in Narayanganj district, 32 km east of national capital Dhaka.
Shafiq Mia, 11, son of Sundar Ali of village Sharisakandi in Sylhet and Alauddin Mia, 35, of Narayanganj district died on the spot.
ICRC not relocating stranded Pak in Bangladesh: ICRC delegate to...
www.4newz.net /world/nz/Narayanganj.html   (3842 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Dhaka (Pakistan And Bangladesh Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
The city comprises three distinct sections: an old area of narrow streets and bazaars; a modern part, called Ramna, with government, tourist, and cultural facilities; and a residential and industrial community N and W of Ramna.
The Univ. of Dhaka (founded 1921) and other higher educational facilities and agriculture research institutes are also in the city.
The surrounding district is a very densely populated and fertile agricultural region that is subject to heavy monsoon floods.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Dhaka.html   (391 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Narayanganj
NARAYANGANJ - A fire raced through a garment factory in Bangladesh, killing 22 people who were trapped because most of the exits were locked.
Mohammed Ali, who is president of Narayanganj Chamber of Commerce and Industry and immediate past vice president of the FBCCI, told the journalists that the recent order to reform the MAA is continuation of the past reform order.
Mohammad Ali of Narayanganj, who is also a Director of the FBCCI, said he too is with the resolution upholding the spirit, but said, Please uphold the interests of the FBCCI first.
worldcities.surfwax.com /files/Narayanganj_Bangladesh.html   (2174 words)

  
 Narayanganj News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Narayanganj district BNP held a rally in front of its office at BB Road with its president Jamaluddin Kalu in the chair.
A gang of hoodlums shot and injured an employee of Narayanganj Chamber of Commerce in Dhaka yesterday morning and an accused in a murder case was bullet-hit...
MV Diganta was sailing with 40 passengers aboard from Torki of Gournadi to Narayanganj.
news.daylightonline.com /2005-02/Narayanganj.html   (10509 words)

  
 Crime News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It killed an alleged criminal in the Sutrapur area of the capital and shotdead an activist of the Narayanganj city Jubo League during a joint drive with the Fatullah thana police.
Nurul Islam alias Sweet, 38, was the son of Nurul Islam of 71, North Chashara in Narayanganj city.
The deceased was identified as Abul Mannan (40), son of Zadu Mridha of village Hemayetpur in Damurhuda upazila.
independent-bangladesh.com /news/dec/01/01122004cr.htm   (862 words)

  
 BioMed Central | Full text | An assessment of the usefulness of a rapid immuno-chromatographic test, "Determine™ ...
For this study we performed a blinded microscopy and splenomegly in children as the endemicity of malaria is usually characterized by spleen and parasites rates in children [11].
Spleen examination of 199 and 150 children respectively in Narayanganj and Bizadandi Primary Health Centres (PHC) are shown in Table 1.
In this study large number of cases with enlarged spleen in Narayanganj PHC were asymptomatic, of which fairly large number were having malaria parasites.
www.biomedcentral.com /1471-2334/1/10   (3423 words)

  
 The Militant - November 24, 2003 -- Garment workers in Bangladesh protest killing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Thousands of working people poured out of the garment plants in the Narayanganj district of Bangladesh November 3-4 to protest a deadly police assault on a march by garment workers.
The police fired on a demonstration of thousands of mostly female garment workers that was called November 3 to protest the arrest of a unionist, Mahbubul Rahman.
The Narayanganj district is home to a complex of some 400 garment factories employing about 16,000 workers.
www.themilitant.com /2003/6741/674156.html   (114 words)

  
 ABUSE OF SECTION 54 OF THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A majority of the cases were in Narayanganj, home of the biggest, and recently defunct, red light area in the country.
The next day she was presented before the magistrate, who sent her to the Narayanganj district jail.
Finally, the investigator went to the court to check records and found that Beauty Begum had been arrested by Narayanganj police under Section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the fake currency she had with her had been removed for analysis and inspection.
www.odhikar.org /pub/Pub3_9.htm   (749 words)

  
 arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh/India
Waterborne diseases are spreading fast in 25 districts because of flooding that killed at least 35 people in six days and stranded close to three million in the north and northeast.
Fresh areas in Barisal, Jhalakathi and Patuakhali districts including parts of the district towns were flooded in the last two days as waters rolling down from the central districts can not recede due to a low in the Bay and the turbulent sea.
Narayanganj district administration officials estimated that nearly 30,000 people had left their homes and took shelter on high ground or roadsides.
www.sos-arsenic.net /english/development/waterlogging.html   (20081 words)

  
 Political Violence
Two of the most serious incidents of brutality by the security forces were a military raid on Charsayedpur village in Narayanganj district in which army troops terrorized the entire village and a police/BDR raid on Jagannath Hall, a Dhaka University dormitory for religious minority students, in which approximately 150 students were injured.
On March 2, 1996 S.M. Khaliq, the BNP leader for Uttara district on the outskirts of Dhaka, was scheduled to address a rally in Uttara at 11 a.m..
On June 5, 1995, Mohammad Afzal Husain, a local leader of the BCL, aged twenty-three, was stabbed and axed to death in the town of Narayanganj near the Bangladesh capital.
www.hrw.org /reports/1996/BANGLA.htm   (14120 words)

  
 WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN DISADVANTAGED SITUATIONS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Shilpi Rani Das (16) of Rishipara, Kacharipara, Narayanganj City Corporation was raped by Nurul Islam and A Barek who is son of an influential and rich person of the same locality on 20 October 2000.
She said the condition of women in Narayanganj jail is very grim.
On the 14th March 2001, a disabled teenager Shiuli Akter, daughter of Liton Mian of Saoghat village of Narayanganj District was raped by Badal Hossain (18) son of Kuddus Milky.
www.odhikar.org /pub/Pub2_18.htm   (1494 words)

  
 MAYERDAK-Incidents agaisnt Minorities
Mulpani village, Ujibpur sub-district, Barishal district (in southern Bangladesh near the Bay of Bengal).
Mirakathi village, Jhalkathi sub-district, Barishal district (in southern Bangladesh near the Bay of Bengal).
Kalachanpara village, Kalapara sub-district, Patuakhali district (in southern Bangladesh near the Bay of Bengal).
www.mayerdak.com /incidents.htm   (996 words)

  
 The Mercury: Tornado injures 15 (archived)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The tornado hit when most people were asleep in the villages in northern Nilphamari district, ABM Sarifuddin, a local administrative officer, said.
Nearly 2000 straw, bamboo and mud huts collapsed, leaving at least 3000 families homeless in the district, 290km north of the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka.
Another tornado tore through eastern Narayanganj district on Monday, injuring at least 20 people and leaving about 300 villagers homeless, officials said.
themercury.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5936,9937437%255E1702,00.html   (212 words)

  
 Cops, civil society thwart raid on Ahmadiyya mosque - The Daily Star, Bangladesh
Strong police watch, civil society resistance and noncooperation of locals yesterday kept at bay the religious fanatics who had threatened to capture an Ahmadiyya mosque in Narayanganj, diffusing the weeklong tension.
Those who gathered in a rally at DIT Mosque failed to march on the Ahmadiyya mosque at Mission Para due to strong police and paramilitary cordon.
Nabuawat president of Narayanganj district Nesar Ahmad Abbasi presided over the meeting.
www.thepersecution.org /world/bangladesh/2004/10/ds041009fp.html   (453 words)

  
 Institutional Development of Human Rights in Bangladesh (IDHRB)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In view of the importance of the topic and its tangled nature, the research team of IDHRB has received co-operation and encouragement from a number of people in completing this report and would like to take this opportunity to thank them all.
A word of gratitude must be expressed to the vulnerable people of Araihazar thana of Narayanganj District and Serajdikhan thana of Munshigang District who despite their ever increasing business, spared valuable time for rendering immense help to identify and locate the major incidents of human rights violations in this part of the country.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the members of thana Administrations, Police, Union Parishads, NGOs and local elite of the above thanas for their note-worthy suggestions and recommendations to solve the enormous problems related to various rights facing everyday by the hapless rural mass.
www.citechco.net /idhrb/arai1.html   (805 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 229   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Of the dead, two were identified as Zarina Begum, 28, of Thakurgaon district and Popy, 13, of Char Rupsha village in Sirajganj district.
BSS adds: A mother and her two children were crushed under the wheels of a speeding truck on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Sanarpar under Siddhirganj Police Station of Narayanganj District early yesterday.
Police said the woman aged about 40, her son aged about 4, and daughter aged about 5, were run over by the truck while walking along the road at about 5:00am.
www.thedailystar.net /2005/01/14/d50114100377.htm   (172 words)

  
 .:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Leaders and activists of Narayanganj District Awami League, CPB, Workers Party, JSD (Inu) and NAP (Muzaffar) participated in the programme.
Sugarcane growers of Jamalpur district told the Bangladesh Observer that they preferred sup­plying sugarcane to the molasses producers instead of mills as the mill authority did not give their payment timely.
A total of 104 heroic sons were brutally killed in different areas in the district.
www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2004/12/13/district.htm   (2139 words)

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