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	Nilphamari District - Bangladesh - Amar Desh Online
		Nilphamari District (Rajshahi division) with an area of 1640.91 sq km, is bounded by Kuchbihar district of west bengal (India) on the north, rangpur district on the south, lalmonirhat district on the east and panchagarh and dinajpur districts on the west.
		The district consists of 6 upazilas, 3 municipalities, 33 wards, 65 mahallas, 62 union parishads, 390 mouzas and 370 villages.
		The Nilphamari region was under the Votmari Chauki during the British period.
	amardesh.com /zilla_nilphamari.php (753 words)

	Bangladesh Timeline Year 2007
		A JMB militant, identified as Monjurul Ahsan Monju, was arrested at Kakran village in Dhamrai sub-district of the Dhaka district.
		Police sources said that Kafil, a resident of Char Balarampur village in the Pabna district, is a central leader of the PBCP and a contemporary of Kamrul Islam Master, founder of the outfit.
		The duo was identified as Lashkar of Kamalpur in Shujanagar and Sabuj of Pangsha in the Rajbari district.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/bangladesh/timeline/index.html (10198 words)

	Brahmanbaria District information - Search.com
		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.search.com /reference/Brahmanbaria_District (758 words)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		NILPHAMARI, Oct 6:–More than 50,000 houses in six upazilas under Nilphamari district were inundated due to heavy downpour in last three days beginning from October 2 A vast area of Nilphamari and Saidpur town including government offices went under knee-deep water.
		UNB reports from Naogaon: The district town has gone under water with the flood situation in the district turning critical as the flood control embankment was damaged in five places following heavy rains and onrush of waters from the upstream.
		Fresh areas in the district have been inundated with waters entering through breached sections of the embankment in Kadamgachhi, Chawk Alam, on the road adjoining the BRAC office and in Begunjoar area of Badalgachhi upazila and Jotbazar Palpara in Manda upazila.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2005/10/07/district.htm (2998 words)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Our Nilphamari Correspondent reports: Fifty persons were injured and 10,000 houses were completely damaged in a storm that lashed 9 unions of Nilphamari Sadar and Jaldhaka upazila of Nilphamari district on Friday night.
		NILPHAMARI, Apr 12:—Most of the bakeries and fruit-processing plants in six upazilas under Nilphamari district are allegedly manufacturing various food items with very low quality ingredients.
		A source in the District Food Department said that this year a target to procure 15,728 metric tons of wheat was fixed for the district.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2004/04/13/district.htm (2162 words)

	SDNP Bangladesh :: Sustainable Development Information Data Bank
		All the upazilas of Sylhet district are affected by flood.
		District administration distributed 300 MT of rice, 380 tin biscuits and Tk.
		District Administration distributed 4-5 KG rice each and every family reguged in the camps.
	www.sdnpbd.org /sdi/issues/floods_drainage/2004/situation-13-7-2004.htm (1312 words)

	Webbangladesh.com Local News from Bangladesh
		At the meeting the teachers and guardians of the students were annoyed at the speech of Kader Siddiki which went against the teachers and in favour of the students.
		NILPHAMARI, Nov 26 : Construction of eight sluice gates in different parts of Nilphamari district has created a ray of hope among a large number of farmers of the district.
		The convicts are Hanif of village Asannagar, Surgeon of village Kulbaria, Shahidul Islam of village Harinakunda, Sher Ali of village Fashi, Nur Ali of village Pultadanga, Abdul Malek of village Daulatpur and Beltu of village Mirzapur all in Harinakunda upazila of Jhenidah district.
	www.webbangladesh.com /Bdnews/bdnews-local_0.htm (2097 words)

	Bangladesh - Rangpur
		Rangpur is a district of Rajshahi division of Bangladesh, and is bordered on the north by Nilphamari district, on the south by Gaibandha district, on the east by Kurigram, and on the west by Dinajpur district.
		The soil composition is mainly alluvial soil (80%) of the Tista basin, and the remaining is barind soil.
		The current population of the Rangpur municipality is 251,699, with 52 % male and 48 % female, and the literacy rate is 54.6 %.
	www.bangladesh-guide.com /Rangpur-112.html (231 words)

	AsiaMedia :: BANGLADESH: Local journos to boycott Nilphamari DC's news
		The journalists of Nilphamari district yesterday decided to boycott every positive news item of Deputy Commissioner Khandakar Mokhlesur Rahman in protest against arrest of The Daily Star correspondent EAM Asaduzzaman Tipu.
		At an emergency meeting at the conference room of Nilphamari district press club, the journalists made the demand.
		The Daily Star's Nilphamari correspondent Tipu, arrested from his home on Wednesday morning in connection with a report about urea fertiliser crisis that came out in the daily on March 17, is now in the district jail.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=66355 (227 words)

	GenderAlliance.com......
		Her father is not keen on performing this ritual because of her being a girl child, who otherwise had happily performed the ritual of the other two sons born before her.
		The Bankaria tribe, one of the ethnic group residing in the district very near the capital of the kingdom of Nepal, is virtually cent percent illiterate.
		One of the important interventions of the project is to have opinion exchange meetings/workshops with the professional groups such as journalists, lawyers, medical experts, police and teachers to increase their commitment to the protection of women's rights and provision of justice to the victim of violence.
	www.genderalliance.org /dvwomen.htm (1405 words)

	Five lakh people marooned: Flood situation worsens
		The Teesta Barrage Project (TBP) at Dalia point of Dimla upazila under Nilphamari district came under threat due onrush of flood waters as all gates of the Gozaldoba Barrage in the Teesta have been opened by India, senior officials of the Water Development Board (WDB) said.
		Districts and upazila administrations have been put on alert in the affected areas.
		WDB is conducting emergency repair work at the damaged points of the embankments in Rangpur, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha, Nilphamari, Bogra and Sirajganj districts round the clock, officials said.
	nation.ittefaq.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/18/10638/printer (554 words)

	NIRAPAD
		Specially the low-lying areas of Dhaka city, Nilphamari, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha, Sunamganj, Netrokona district are inundated, water level in major rivers continued to rise which is causing sufferings and hardship to the people.
		However, a severe flush flood inundated vast areas of Nilphamari, Rangpur and Lalmonirhat district (along the Teesta belt) on July 01, 2002 due to sudden release of water from Gazoldoba barrage (the barrage made at the upstream of the Teesta in the Indian part).
		Comilla District: The overall situation is normal and communication is OK. As usually, low-lying parts are under water and water level is getting up slowly in the down parts of Comilla district.
	nirapad.org /situation/Flood-2002SituationReportJuly3.asp (1042 words)

	Country News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A good number of conscious people in the six upazilas of the district told The Independent that adequate number of winter clothes should be sent to this district by the government to protect the rootless people from the biting cold immediately.
		According to the sources in the District Controller of Food Office a total of 983 tonnes of paddy and 3,859 tonnes of rice were fixed for procurement in the district this year.
		The upazila-wise break-up of banana cultivation this year is as follows: Some 10 acres of land were brought under banana cultivation in Domar, eight acres of land in Dimla, five acres of land in Jaldhaka, 13 acres of land in Kishoreganj, 15 acres of land in Saidpur and 11 acres of land in Sadar upazila.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/jan/01/01012006ct.htm (2049 words)

	Travel Health Service Year 2007
		The latest outbreak occurred in a farm in the northern Nilphamari district.
		West Pokot district had the highest number of infections with 151 cases, while Turkana district recorded the highest number of deaths at 9.
		In Russia, 2 residents of the Budenovskiy and Krasnogardeyskiy districts of Stavropol were infected with Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever while removing ticks from domestic animals.
	www.travelhealth.gov.hk /english/outbreaknews/2007/ond14may2007.html (805 words)

	Rangpur District - Bangladesh - Amar Desh Online
		Rangpur District (Rajshahi division) with an area of 2307.78 sq km, is bounded by nilphamari district on the north, gaibandha district on the south, kurigram district on the east and dinajpur district on the west.
		About 80% area of the district is composed of alluvial soil of Tista basin and 20% Barind land.
		Administration The district consists of three municipalities, eight upazilas, 33 wards, 84 union parishads, 2151 mouzas and 1519 villages 203 mahallas.
	amardesh.com /zilla_rangpur.php (731 words)

	Violence during Union Parishad Elections 2003
		Chittagong district (in southeastern Bangladesh bordering the Indian state of Tripura and the Bay of Bengal).
		Nilphamari district (in northern Bangladesh bordering the Indian state of West Bengal).
		Maheshkhali, Coxbazar district (in southeastern Bangladesh bordering the Bay of Bengal and the country of Myanmar).
	www.mayerdak.com /electionviolence03.htm (647 words)

	Reporters Without Borders
		Maoist Youth Communist League Ritesh Shrestha threatened to kill journalists Shaligram Pandey, Amar Khadka, Suman Giri, Shekhar Adhikari, Arjun Sharma and Santosh Yadhav yesterday in Itahari, in eastern Nepal, during a roundtable discussion on the delicate issue of prostitution that was held at the initiative of the local police.
		A chronic asthma sufferer, Tipu was transferred to a hospital in Nilphamari on 23 March but he remains in police custody and is due to appear before the judge again tomorrow.
		His fellow journalists in Nilphamari are meanwhile refusing to cover the district police chief’s activities in protest against his arrest.
	www.rsf.org /article.php3?id_article=21451 (561 words)

	Bogra District - Bangladesh - Amar Desh Online
		Bogra District (Rajshahi division) with an area of 2919.9 sq km, bounded by joypurhat and gaibandha districts on the north, the chalan beel, natore and sirajganj districts on the south, jamuna river and jamalpur district on the east, Part of Chalan Beel, naogaon and Natore districts on the west.
		Administration Bogra district was established in 1821 consisting of 9 thanas, of which four from Rajshahi district (Adamdighi, Bogra, Sherpur, Nawkhila), 3 from Dinajpur district (Lalbazar, Badalgachhi, Khetlal), and two from Rangpur district (Gobindaganj, Dewanganj).
		Bogra district consists of 5 municipalities, 48 wards, 166 mahallas, 11 upazilas, 109 union parishads, 1782 mouzas and 2706 villages.
	amardesh.com /zilla_bogra.php (1018 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 255
		This has surprised all classes of people and created a resentment in the district where most areas are severely affected by monga (a period before and after harvest when there is job crisis).
		Talking to this correspondent, Forhanul Islam, Nilphamari district secretary of Jatiotabadi Krishok Dal, ruling BNP's peasant forum, said people of Teesta shoals deserve to be on top of any development programme taken for shoals.
		President of Nilphamari unit of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) Sreedam Das alleged that non-inclusion of Teesta shoal people in the project proves how the purpose of a government project for the poor is lost due to whimsical attitude of a section of officials.
	www.thedailystar.net /2005/02/13/d50213070269.htm (529 words)

	arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh/India
		The poor and the landless, who abound the northern districts of large land-holdings by jotedars, said that the wage of a day-labourer was Tk 50-60 daily during the season of harvesting or other agricultural activities.
		The farmers of all the six upazilas of Nilphamari district are extremely frustrated due to low yield Aman paddy.
		The farmers, who have already harvested their Aman Paddy in different upazilas of the district said that the average production of Aman paddy is on four to five mounds in per bigha of land or 12 to 15 maunds on per acre of land.
	www.sos-arsenic.net /english/intro/monga.html (7126 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Panchagarh District (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was under Dinajpur district at the time of the partition of 1947.
		Panchagarh was elevated to a district in 1984.
		Enclaves (Chhitmahal) The Indian enclaves in the district are Puthimari, Daikhat, Shalbari, Kajaldighi, Natak-toka and Nazirganj in Boda upazila; Behula-danga, Balapara Kotbhajani and Dahla Khagrabari in Deviganj upazila; Garati and Singimari in sadar upazila.
	banglapedia.org /HT/P_0057.HTM (689 words)

	Country News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is a matter of great regret that these ultra poor people under the six upazilas of the district have to spend their days and nights in dire conditions when they do not get any work to earn money.
		According to a reliable source about 30 to 35 percent of the teachers of primary and high schools under Domar upazila of the district are hostage in the hands of a moneylender who has allegedly invested a large some of money among the said teachers by taking their cheques.
		A discussion was held on the premises of the office of district administration on the occasion.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/nov/09/09112005ct.htm (3654 words)

	Terrorism Update
		Chief District Officer of Tanahu, Bhuvan Aryal, informed Nepal News that the bridge was partially destroyed in the incident.
		District Police Chief, Amrit Raj, said that a group of Maoists accosted Pratap Sahni while he was returning to Nonpur village from Begusarai town and shot him dead.
		On March 16, police in the Nalgonda district arrested five members of the CPI (ML-New Democracy), including its district unit secretary Jalagam Janardhan alias Janakiramulu alias JK alias Jannu, of Yepur in the Atmakur administrative division on the charge of extorting money from a Sriramsagar project contractor.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=3/17/2006 (2470 words)

	Floods maroon thousands in northern dists
		An old man Ibrahim Ali of Dimla upazila in Nilphamari district died of diarrhoea.
		BDNEWS Nilphamari correspondent reports, incessant heavy rainfall coupled with upstream water entering through all sluice gates of Gozaldoba barrage marooned low-lying areas of six upazilas of the district.
		Over two lakh people of the district are passing miserable life as 60 unions out of 72 went under floods.
	nation.ittefaq.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/32/20073/printer (506 words)

	Politics, Party & Power (1940-1943)
		He was MLA from Nilphamari subdivision of Rangpur.
		He did not even inform the District Secretary that he was visiting the town.
		I went to the district leaders in the houses and district court to invite them.
	www.dhakacourier.net /issue40/report/doc5.htm (1594 words)

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