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  About Bangladesh
South of the Bhar Basin is the floodplain of the Ganges.
Lying to the south of the Feni River in southeastern Bangladesh, the Chittagong region has many hills, hillocks, valleys, and forests and is quite different in aspect from other parts of the country.
Continuous strings of settlements along roads are common in areas south of the Ganges and in the floodplains of the Mahananda, Tista, Jamuna, Ganges, and Meghna rivers.
mohammed-yasin.iwarp.com /aboutbangladesh.htm   (9231 words)

  
 Bangladesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The People's Republic of Bangladesh (Bangla: গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ, Gôno Projātontrī Bāņlādesh) is a country in South Asia that forms the eastern part of the ancient region of Bengal.
Cox's Bazar, South of the city of Chittagong, has a sea beach that stretches uninterrupted over 120 km; it is frequently quoted as the World's longest natural sea beach (although this claim is difficult to prove or disprove).
The large influx of shoppers belies the notion that the economy of Bangladesh has been stagnant, and also reveals the growth of the middle class in the country.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bangladesh   (2614 words)

  
 BEHAR - LoveToKnow Article on BEHAR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Ganges enters the province near the town of Buxar, flows eastward and, passing the towns of Dinajpur, Patna, Monghyr and Colgong, leaves the province at Rajmahal.
It divides the province into two almost equal portions; north of the river lie the districts of Saran, Champaran, Tirhoot, Purnea, and part of Monghyr and Bhagalpur, and south of it are Shahabad, Patna, Gaya, the Santal parganas, and the rest of Monghyr and Bhagalpur.
The origin of this kingdom, famous alike in the political and religious history of India, is lost in the mists of antiquity; and though the Brahmanical Puranas give lists of its rulers extending back to remote ages before the Christian era, the first authentic dynasty is that of the Saisunaga, founded by Sisunaga (c.
98.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BEHAR.htm   (1727 words)

  
 West Bengal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neighbouring regions are Nepal to the northwest, Sikkim and Bhutan to the north, Assam to the northeast, Bangladesh to the east, the Bay of Bengal to the south, Orissa to the southwest and Jharkhand and Bihar to the west.
Often Cooch Behar, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, North Dinajpur and South Dinajpur districts are together termed as North Bengal.
At the south of West Bengal the Sundarbans delta on Ganga is a part of the world's largest river delta (other portions lie in Bangladesh).
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Bengal   (872 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Dinajpur (South Asia Political Geography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
It is an important road junction and the administrative center for a district where rice, wheat, jute, and sugarcane are grown.
Two colleges affiliated with Rajshahi Univ. are in the city.
Dinajpur proper, the northeast quarter of the city, where the maharajah of Dinajpur once resided, gave its name to the entire district.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Dinajpur.html   (161 words)

  
 PEASANT REVOLTS
In the south, the Moplah peasants of Malabar rose against feudal extortions and oppression.
The movement spread from village to village, from Dinajpur and Rangpur in North Bengal to 24-Parganas in the south of the province.
It was the biggest princely state in India with 17 districts and a population of 17 million at that time, ruled by the Nizam.
www.homestead.com /iref/files/Peasant.htm   (2263 words)

  
 West Bengal Dinajpur District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Dakshin Dinajpur : The district is one of the smallest in terms of population and area.
Connected by road with English Bazar (India) and Dinajpur and Rajshahi (Bangladesh), it is the chief distributing centre for the region, trading mainly in rice, jute, sugarcane, and oilseeds.
An important agricultural-trade and jute-exporting centre, it is connected by road with English Bazar and with Dinajpur (in Bangladesh).
www.wb.nic.in /dist/wdinaj.html   (212 words)

  
 Bangla1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Many assume that South India and Bengal were backwaters because of the lack of interest of the Aryan scriptures in them.
Since Bangla and South India were not Aryan, they are not highlighted in the history of the Aryans or North India.
Chera (Kerala), another ancient sea-faring nation of South West coast of India, who might also be descended from the Indus civilization, at this time traded with the Romans as they had with the Greeks and the Jews and Egyptians earlier.
www.geocities.com /raqta24/bangla3.htm   (5734 words)

  
 Dinajpur - Current News & Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The five land ports are Sonamasjid in Rajshahi, Hili and Birol in Dinajpur, Banglabandha in Panchagarh and Bibir Bazar in Comilla.
The land ports are: Sonamasjid under Rajshahi, Hilli and Birol in Dinajpur, Banglabandha in Panchagarh and Bibirbazar in Sylhet districts.
Dinajpur news from Sept 2004 to Dec 2004
news.daylightonline.com /2005/Dinajpur.html   (1553 words)

  
 Dinajpur - Current News & Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The chosen districts in the state are Jalpaiguri, South Dinajpur, North Dinajpur, Purulia, West Midnapore, Bankura, Birbhum and South 24 Parganas, Mr R Mondal...
...of Kalapara, Abdul Kader of Kazipur, Delwar Hossain of Borguna, Mahbubul Huq of Jhalakhati, Rafiqulk islam of Monpaura, Mofazzal Hossain of Dinajpur and Aminul...
In West Bengal, Muslim population in West Dinajpur, Maldah, Birbhum and Murshidabad percentage-wise is 36.75, 47.49, 33.06 and 61.39 respectively.
news.daylightonline.com /2003/Dinajpur.html   (3494 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Dinajpur
The participating teams are: Natore and Dinajpur DSAs of Rajshahi division, Bagerhat and Satkhira DSAs of Khulna division, Dhaka and Munshiganj DSAs of Dhaka division, Bandarban of Chittagong division and Jhalakathi of Barisal division.
Dinajpur, Dec 13 ' Four members of Bangladesh Rifles were injured in a sudden attack by a gang of smugglers at Ghorghat in Hily border area on Thursday.
The greater Rangpur and Dinajpur areas are in the grip of this famine-like situation with millions of poor and landless people starving due to a lack of jobs and a severe scarcity of food.
worldcities.surfwax.com /files/Dinajpur_Bangladesh.html   (1857 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Everywhere except in Dinajpur and Pabna District the number of the self-spinning members was very meager, as compared with that of those who bought yarn to become members.
Then, again, at Dinajpur also it was a Swarajist and a member of the Bengal legislature, Jogendra-Chandra Chakravarti, who was the whole and sole of the wonderful gathering of spinners.
I have been able to watch them when they are able to live a restrained life in their own country.
www.forget-me.net /en/Gandhi/day2day7.txt   (23759 words)

  
 Bangladesh country information
The distribution of Muslims in different regions of South Asia clearly contradicts the hypothesis that the patronage of the temporal authority was the most crucial variable in the spread of Islam.
While similar Muslim missionary activities failed in other regions of South Asia, Islam ultimately succeeded in penetrating deeply into Bengal because the social environment of this region was congenial to the diffusion of a new religion.
The partition of the South Asian sub-continent into two independent states in 1947 was a defeat for the British policy.
asiarecipe.com /baninfo.html   (10294 words)

  
 Cold spell sweep across northern region
The mercury dipped at almost over the country, excepting south eastern region, as the sky remained overcast.
A report from Dinajpur said the second spell of north Himalayan cold continued sweeping over the country’s northern, eastern and some parts of the western regions for the fourth consecutive day today.
Intensity of the cold wave is severe in the sub-Himalayan northeastern districts and char areas of river basins, official sources said.
nation.ittefaq.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/26/15379/printer   (395 words)

  
 Hasina Khaleda-ised
A soldiers-led counter coup had put him in power, removing Khalid Musharraf, who as the Chief of General Staff had three days earlier removed President Khondkhar Mushtaq Ahmed, incarcerated Zia the Chief of Army Staff and sent into exile to Bangkok the Colonels who were really the power behind the Government.
In actual fact she turned off quite a few fence-straddling Bangladeshis, Hasina was left with the Hindu vote as the core AL support.
Given a sea change to a positive ambience with the western world because of dramatic recent developments, Pakistan may well begin to enjoy the association of the countries in the sub-continent as equal partners.
www.defencejournal.com /2001/october/hasina.htm   (1576 words)

  
 Khaleej Times - Online
NEW DELHI - South Asia's worst winter in decades has killed a further 71 people, taking the death toll to more than 1,250 as the region's homeless struggled to keep warm in near freezing temperatures.
Although temperatures in South Asia do not fall as low in North America and Europe, people have been hit harder because millions in the region live on pavements or in makeshift shacks.
Massive demonstrations in south Kashmir followed the killings, with residents claiming the men were innocent civilians.
www.khaleejtimes.co.ae /ktarchive/180103/subcont.htm   (10477 words)

  
 Twin advantage
In Murshidabad, Malda and North Dinajpur, the minority population is growing at a fast pace.
While in Murshidabad Muslims constitute 60 per cent of the population, in Malda the figure is 42 per cent and in North Dinajpur, 48 per cent.
The growth in population in Nadia in the last decade was just 1 per cent but the Muslim population grew by 21 per cent.
www.jammu-kashmir.com /archives/archives2003/kashmir20030105e.html   (1046 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Bengal
The resident of Sahapara village in the Gangarampur area of South Dinajpur entrusted a nationalised bank with his ticket and the relevant documents, asking that his account be credited with the lottery money.
Disaster struck on November 1, when a thief pinched Purkait’s bag as he was boarding a Diamond Harbour local from Sealdah station around 8 am.
Prasad filed a case with the South Dinajpur District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, pleading that the prize he had won — and the bank had allegedly lost — be handed over to him.
www.telegraphindia.com /1030428/asp/bengal/story_1917266.asp   (426 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
With every passing day, the hangman’s noose may be closing in on Dhananjoy Chatterjee, the liftman and security guard sentenced to death for the murder and rape of a 14-year-old school-girl at her south Calcutta flat 15 years back, but the authorities have a problem on hand: the lack of a hangman and the noose.
The city’s last hanging occurred more than a decade ago when, in 1991, two persons were executed for murdering four members of a family in Balurghat, in South Dinajpur.
Since no death sentence was passed in the past 13 years, not much thought was paid to the infrastructure necessary for the purpose, officials admitted.
www.telegraphindia.com /1040118/asp/calcutta/story_2799187.asp   (477 words)

  
 Feature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A socio-economic survey was conducted during the period of Phase-II of RETs in Asia Project among 79 households in the district of Rangpur, Dinajpur and Tangail.
North Korea remained an area of concern in 2004, as fears mounted that the country is amassing a number of a nuclear weapons arsenal.
South Korea, China, Russia and Japan jointly brokered a series of meetings, to defuse the crisis, throughout the year between US and the communist Korea.
independent-bangladesh.com /news/feb/02/02022005ft.htm   (9019 words)

  
 Intamm - History - Epigraph and Epigraphists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
About the beginning of this era the Brahmi script was so popular and useful for the record of even an alien language that the Jain Missionaries of the Pandyan country inscribed their Tamil message in Brahmi on the walls of their cave dwellings.
The sagacity of a South Indian epigraphist (K. Subramanya Ayyar) discovered this fact when other scholars were at a nonplus over the language of the texts.
In the north and south, the literary excellence of many epigraphs, whether in prose of verse, is remarkable.
www.intamm.com /history/epigraph.htm   (1699 words)

  
 Buddhism News: 2005-07-03   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
According to some scholars, when Hinduism was gaining ascendancy in South India from the 6th century AD on, deity worship began to appear in Sri Lanka in a noticeable way.
Land was given to South Indian kinsmen of the royals, which meant that they entered the agricultural economy and the village sector in the Kandy area.
The traders, seafarers and farmers from South India introduced to the local population their idols and religious beliefs, including Black Magic and sorcery.
buddhismnews.blogspot.com /2005_07_03_buddhismnews_archive.html   (14039 words)

  
 tribuneindia... World
DINAJPUR (Bangladesh), Aug 26 — One guard from each side and a Bangladeshi boy were killed when Indian and Bangladeshi border guards exchanged fire last night, security officials claimed here today.
South African officials said they were unaware of a trip by President Bill Clinton’s special envoy for the region, Mr Howard Wolpe, who visited Luanda during the weekend.
DINAJPUR (Bangladesh), Aug 26 (Reuters) — One guard from each side and a Bangladeshi boy were killed when Indian and Bangladeshi border guards exchanged fire last night, security officials claimed here today.
www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98aug27/world.htm   (3128 words)

  
 Oxfam - South Asia Floods 2004 - situation update 12 October 04
Heavy rains coupled with extremely strong winds have led to intense flooding in the north east region of India yet again even as the monsoon is on the wane.
Flood waters have destroyed almost 60% of the paddy, 40% of the vegetables and 80% of the pulses in districts North and South Dinajpur and Malda.
Oxfam’s partners have conducted a rapid assessment exercise in North and South Dinajpur and Malda and are developing a response plan.
www.oxfam.org.uk /what_we_do/emergencies/country/sasia04/update121004.htm   (536 words)

  
 [Hunger Alert] INDIA: Entire village community starving to death, South Dinajpur, West Bengal
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) in West Bengal, India, that people in the South Dinajpur district are dying of starvation while the government authorities have not taken any effective action to stop the deaths.
Romit Mootsuddi, the District Magistrate of South Dinajpur, agreed to investigate the situation in Anahar.
Due to ongoing starvation for several years, villagers in Anahar village in the South Dinajpur district has already been reduced to 28 families and 15 other children and adults will die of starvation soon if the conditions in the village do not change immediately.
www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2005/986   (1537 words)

  
 The Daily Star: News Highlights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
THE powerful bomb blasts in Dinajpur city last Thursday, just a day after the Eid-ul-Azha, raked up some of the memories of a series of explosions in cinema halls during the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays a few...
South Africa discovered on Sunday that you underestimate New Zealand and their skipper Stephen Fleming at your peril....
South Africa batsman Herschelle Gibbs admitted here Monday that the team were still struggling to cope with the absence of former captain Hansie Cronje....
www.thedailystar.net /dailystarnews/200302/18   (2587 words)

  
 SECONDARY FLOW AND CHANNEL CHANGE IN BRAIDED RIVERS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Lower Purnabhaba valley is 81 km in length, beginning south of Dinajpur town in India and finishing where the Purnabhaba and the Mahananda rivers confluence.
Parts of the Ganges floodplain to the south of the Ganges River are considered by Rashid (1991) to be part of the delta.
To the south of the Brahmaputra River basin the Meghalaya Plateau is made up primarily of gneiss and schists, which form part of the Indian Shield of Precambrian age.
www.geog.nottingham.ac.uk /~thorne/roy-richardson/chapter3.htm   (5313 words)

  
 Agronomical Research
Based on Climate, Soil and Physiography the South Asia Project Department, World Bank (1997) reported six agroclimatic Zones of West Bengal.
Among them New Alluvium Zone is the biggest Zone with highest cropping intensity and crop diversity covering the western parts of Malda and Dakshin Dinajpur, Southern parts of Uttar Dinajpur, eastern part of Murshidabad, Hoogly, Burdwan and Howrah, entire Nadia and northern part of North and South 24 Parganas
Quality seeds of selected and improved varieties of different crops are being produced and distributed to the farmers directly or through seed supplying agencies.
nadia.nic.in /Agronomical_Research/agronomical_research.html   (532 words)

  
 Dioceses of Raiganj   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The diocese was formed by detaching from the Diocese of Dumka, the district of West Dinajpur and Malda.
The West Dinajpur district has been further subdivided into two Districts: North Dinajpur and South Dinajpur.
In 1952 a part of West Dinajpur and Malda were cut off from the Diocese of Dinajpur (now in Bangladesh) and the Prefecture of Malda was erected under the care of the Pontifical Institute of Foreign missionaries of Milan (PIME).
www.cbcisite.com /Dioceses%20of%20Raiganj.htm   (164 words)

  
 Mamata angling for Railway portfolio
In the past two general elections, she made a big issue of the proposal for extension of the Metro Railway from Tollygunge to Garia.
Farther down south, there is her other pet project--the Lakshmikantapur-Namkhana extension of the Sealdah South section--which has been hanging fire for over a decade.
With the headquarters of the Eastern Railway, South Eastern Railway and the Metro Railway in Calcutta, she will also have the advantage of home turf.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990114/01450895.html   (511 words)

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