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	Sylhet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is the capital of Sylhet Division (সিলেট বিভাগ Sileţ Bibhag) and Sylhet District (সিলেট জেলা Sileţ Jela).
		Sylhet was certainly known by the rest of India, and is even referred to in the ancient Hindu sacred Tantric text, the Shakti Sangama Tantra, as 'Silhatta'.
		Sylhet is the home of most Bangladeshi migrants to the United Kingdom and the rest of the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sylhet (1065 words)

	Moulvibazar District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moulvi Bazar is in Sylhet, a district to the North-East of Bangladesh.
		It is surrounded by Sylhet district in the north, Habiganj district in the west and Indian States of Assam and Tripura in the east and south respectively.
		The main rivers of the district are the Manu, the Dholoi and the Juri.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moulvibazar_District (521 words)

	Sylhet, Bangladesh, Information on sylhet, Sylheti
		Sylhet District (sylhet division) with an area of 3490.40 sq km, is bounded by the Khasia-Jainta hills of India on the north, maulvi bazar district on the south, Kachhar and Karimganj districts of India on the east, sunamganj and habiganj districts on the west.
		On 1 August 1995 Sylhet was declared as the 6th division of the country consisting of the four districts of the greater Sylhet.
		Sylhet district consists of 11 upazilas, 2 municipalities, 37 wards, 233 mahallas, 98 union parishads, 1693 mouzas and 3249 villages.
	www.cybersylhet.com /modules.php?name=Sylhet (1020 words)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In Sylhet district, 5,500 cases for Tk 7 crore in Sunamgonj district, 500 cases for Tk 74 lakh in Moulvibazar, 1,500 cases for Tk 4 crore in Habigonj district.
		The bank closed down 4 branches in Sylhet division where 1,586 certificate cases were filed for Tk 2.13 crore and 43 cases for Tk 90 lakh have been filed in Sylhet division.
		Besides, the bank filed 60 certificate cases for Tk 6.99 crore in Sylhet division and 22 cases Tk 5.81 crore in Sylhet district, 11 cases for Tk 31 lakh in Moulvibazar 24 cases for Tk 87 lakh in Sunamgonj, 30 cases for Tk 9.54 crore in Habigonj district.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2003/09/29/district.htm (2497 words)

	Sylhet shrine blast; remand of suspects over: No clue found yet, AL's hartal today: British investigators to submit ...
		On the other hand, the Sylhet District Awami League has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Sylhet Division today (Thursday) in protest of the attack on the British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury and arrest of the leaders and activists of the party's youth and student wings in connection with the incident.
		Nine leaders and activists of the Sylhet District Units of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Juba League, who were arrested in connection with the incident of blast at the shrine, were sent to Sylhet Court after their five days' remand expired yesterday.
		Meanwhile, the Sylhet District Bar Association on Tuesday demanded the formation of a high-powered investigation commission, headed by a justice of the Supreme Court to probe into the grenade attack on the British High Commissioner at the main gate of Hazrat Shahjalal's (RA) shrine on May 21.
	nation.ittefaq.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/43/9426 (916 words)

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		About half of the district, including the country around the capital, Shillong, is outside the limits of British India, consisting of a collection of small states in political relations, regulated by treaty with the Government of India, which enjoy almost complete autonomy in the management of their local affairs.
		Cherrapunji then became the headquarters of the Sylhet Light Infantry, whose commandant was placed in political charge of the district, including the former dominions in the hills of the Raja of Jaintia, which he voluntarily relinquished in 1835 on the confiscation of his territory in the plains.
		The cultivation of oranges in the southern portion of the district ranks equally in importance with that of the potato in the northern.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/12786/12786-8.txt (20857 words)

	History (Karimganj District)
		A portion of Karimganj district comprising the present thana area of Patherkandi was under the control of the Tripura King at that period.
		This truncated Karimganj sub-division was incorporated in the Cachar District of Assam as a full-fledged sub-division.
		This sub-division was upgraded to a district on the 1st of July, 1983, vide Govt.
	karimganj.nic.in /history.htm (781 words)

	St Albans District Council - Leisure - Town Twinning - Sylhet
		The link was established in 1988 when the District Council supported a housing project in Sylhet as part of the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless.
		Sylhet was chosen because it is the area of origin for the largest ethnic minority group in St Albans.
		Sylhet is located in the north east of Bangladesh and is the second largest economically prosperous area in the country.
	www.stalbans.gov.uk /leisure/towntwin/sylhet.htm (224 words)

	SYLHET AT A GLANCE-LAND OF HAZRAT SHAHJALAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lying between the Khasia and the Jaintia hills on the north, and the Tripura hills on the south, Sylhet breaks the monotony of the flatness of this land by a multitude of terraced tea gardens rolling countryside and the exotic flora and fauna.
		The Sylhet valley is formed by a beautiful, winding pair of rivers named the Surma and the Kushiara both of which are fed by innumerable hill streams from the north and the south.
		An interesting feature of Sylhet region is the aboriginal tribes such as the Tipperas, the Monipuris, Khasis and Garos who still live in their primitive ways in the hills, practising their age-old rites, rituals, customs and traditions.
	www.sylhet.com (1270 words)

	Sylhet - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is the administrative center for a district of rice and tea cultivation; there is extensive limestone quarrying.
		Sylhet, which has manufactures in tea, matches, vegetable oil, and canes, is also a center of Islamic culture and the site of several tombs of Muslim holy men.
		Sylhet city tense as JCD factions locked in clashes, THE INDEPENDENT
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-sylhet.html (168 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Survey and Settlement Operations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The district of West Bengal, where settlement operations were concluded in the first cycle, but transferred to India in the wake of Partition has not been included in Table 1.
		On the other hand, the district of Sylhet, which was originally a part of Assam, did not go through a full-fledged settlement operation on cadastral system until after it was incorporated in East Pakistan, following the referendum held to decide its future.
		But within a few years, it was felt that even in 10 selected districts, it was difficult to run settlement operations simultaneously, because of serious constraints of budget allocation, scarcity of trained manpower, and other operational problems.
	banglapedia.org /HT/S_0621.HTM (825 words)

	Assam Police -- History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Some districts like Darrang, Lakhimpur, Nagaon and Sibsagar had only 7 police stations each, Sylhet had a record number of 29,followed by Goalpara which had 19 police stations implying thereby that these were the two districts which needed a greater degree of policing to deal with crimes.
		Other districts were comparatively free from disturbances and crimes, and therefore, could be managed by a smaller number of personnel and stations.
		The first was the transfer of the Sylhet district to Pakistan and second was the complete separation of the administration of the Assam Rifles from the Police.
	assampolice.com /aphistory.htm (2973 words)

	About Cachar
		The word 'Kachar' in Sylhette(Bengali of Sylhet) means a stretch of land at the foot of a mountain.Hence the name Cachar might have been given by Bengalies of Sylhet as the land is surrounded by mountains.
		The District is a heterogeneous plain composed of both low lands and high hills and level plains.
		On the average, the soil of the district is a sandy-loomy and sand-clay and is fertile.
	cachar.nic.in /About.htm (960 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / British Envoy Hurt in Bangladesh Shrine Blast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		District officials said they had no immediate idea who caused Friday's blast.
		Choudhury, who was born near Sylhet and went to Britain at the age of seven or eight before returning as a diplomat, was flown to Dhaka by military helicopter and then taken to a military hospital.
		In Sylhet, torn slippers, shoes, caps and blood-stained shirts littered the exit of the shrine, where the bomb exploded as prayers were ending, local reporters said, adding that shrine officials and devotees had been shattered by the events.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/05/21/british_envoy_hurt_in_bangladesh_shrine_blast (617 words)

	Ethnologue report for Bangladesh
		Moulvibazar District, near Fenchuganj, Madhabkunda, Barlekha, Goalbari, Fultala, Alinagar, Islampur, Khajori, Rashidpur, Satgoan, Kamalganj, and Alinagar; Sylhet District, near Jaflong, Tamabil, Jaintiapur and north of Raipur; Hobiganj District.
		Throughout Rajshahi Division; in Chittagong Division, Moulvibazar and Hobigani districts; and Khulna Division, Jhenaidah District (Jhenaidah Thana, Moheshpur Thana), Kushtia District (Mirpur Thana), Magura District (Magura Thana).
		Along the India border in the northeast; Sylhet Division, Sylhet District, near Jaflong, Tamabil, Jaintiapur, and north of Raipur; Moulavi Bazar District, near Fenchuganj, Madhabkunda, Barlekha, Goalbari, Fultala, Alinagar, Islampur, Khajori, Rashidpur, Satgoan, Kamalganj, Alinagar.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=BD (655 words)

	Bangladesh Timeline Year 2004
		Mahmud Hasan Monju, a leader of the PBCP-Janajuddha faction is killed in a clash with the police at Birampur village in the Jessore district.
		A PBCP (Janajuddha) cadre killed by cadres of BCP at Shantunagar village in the Chuadanga district.
		A BCP-ML cadre is killed and a police officer sustains injuries in an encounter with the police at Parlat village in the Jhenidah district.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/bangladesh/timeline/Year2004.htm (5265 words)

	SYLHET - Online Information article about SYLHET
		Sylhet is the largest town in Assam, but is steadily decaying, being 30 M. from a railway and inaccessible to steamers during the dry See also:
		group in the centre of the district called the Ita hills.
		The district is watered by the branches of the Surma (q.v.) which are navigable by large boats, and support a busy See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SUS_TAV/SYLHET.html (605 words)

	Article
		Sylhet city inhabits a mound of land in the floodplain of the Surma River.
		Eighteenth century District Records indicate that embankments that protected Sylhet town and farms around it were built, rebuilt, strengthened, and lengthened repeatedly to prevent the land washing away.
		Local Sylhet territorialism became a constituent of modern governance and of Sylhet regional identity, which however distinctive, reflects a broader pattern, because all across the land that became Bangladesh, British authority attached itself to the local gentry.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~dludden/luddenEPW_files/showArticles.htm (9227 words)

	2M villagers face hunger over floods in Bangladesh - Jul. 14, 2004
		SYLHET, Bangladesh -- Villagers marooned by floods that have stranded at least two million people in northern Bangladesh said they were running out of food and fresh water Tuesday as rescuers struggled to reach them.
		People stranded in northeastern Sylhet district told an Agence France-Presse correspondent traveling by boat they had been trapped in their villages for six days, adding food supplies were running low and they had no access to fresh water.
		A further 300,000 people were cut off from their villages and stranded in emergency shelters in Sylhet district, it said.
	www.inq7.net /wnw/2004/jul/14/wnw_2-1.htm (587 words)

	Hartal in Sylhet Division passes off peacefully
		A half-day hartal was passed off peacefully in Sylhet division yesterday in protest of the bomb blast in a public meeting of AL presidium member Suranjit Sengupta, MP in Dirai upazila under Sunamganj district on Monday.
		During the period of hartal, enforced by the Sylhet District Awami League, movement of traffic was thin on the roads and streets in Sylhet city.
		In the afternoon, a public meeting was organised by the Sylhet District Awami League at Court Point in the city.
	nation.ittefaq.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/15/10231 (212 words)

	Top Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Regarding the situation in Sylhet BNP and his request to the Prime Minister, Saifur said, "I have full confidence in her and I believe that she will not let me down".
		Meanwhile, the BNP central committee yesterday dissolved the Sylhet district Committee.
		A senior leader of the party said preferring anonymity that the tactics of the party was to keep the finance minister at the centre-stage of the Sylhet BNP and to woo the electorate through carrying on development works in the region.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/may/29/29052006ts.htm (565 words)

	Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Although it was a district within a province (Assam) whose population was predominantly non-Muslim, Sylhet itself contained a population 62.2 per cent of whom, according to the census of 1941, were Muslims.
		On the basis of the statement, a referendum was held on July 6 and 7 to decide whether the district of Sylhet should continue to form part of Assam province or should be amalgamated with the new province of East Bengal.
		The commission was instructed to demarcate the Muslim majority areas of Sylhet district and the contiguous Muslim majority areas of the adjoining districts of Assam.
	www.epw.org.in /showArticles.php?root=2006&leaf=04&filename=9937&filetype=html (9174 words)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The worst hit north-eastern part of Sylhet district went under two feet of water and neighboring Sunamganj district was inundated by the Surma and Kushiara rivers.
		Almost all 11 upazilas and Sylhet city town under Sylhet district and some 10 upazilas of Sunamgonj district and different areas of Kamolgonj and Kulaura upazilas under Moulvibazar district have also been attacked with flood in the meantime.
		Meanwhile, approximately 50000 labourers who are engaged in stone and sand collection from queries in Sylhet region, have been passing their days with severe miseries during a week as almost all the queries in Sunamgonj and Sylhet districts have gone under flood-water.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2004/07/12/front.htm (3909 words)

	Western Resistance: Bangladesh: 22 JMB Islamists To Hang
		Another individual has been separately sentenced to death for the killing of a judge in Sylhet, a district in the northeast of the country..
		Sylhet Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Biplob Goshwami on 18 October last year, when a bomb was thrown at him, leaving him injured in his legs.
		In addition to his death sentence, the bomber was given 10 years "rigorous imprisonment" for throwing a second bomb, with another 20 years similar jail for possessing another live bomb and a fine of 50,000 Taka, which by default becomes an extra year's jail.
	www.westernresistance.com /blog/archives/001720.html (584 words)

	SASNET: Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
		Sylhet was the only part of British India that at the time of partition in 1947 was given the right to hold a referendum on whether the then Assamese region of Sylhet should become part of India or Pakistan.
		Sylhet had a majority of Muslim Bengalis and opted for Pakistan, so then the first division of Assam took place, cutting links with the neighbouring Khasi and Jaintia Hills (now in the Indian state of Meghalaya).
		On the way from Sylhet Airport (an airport which has international flights direct to England as there is a sizable population of Sylhetis in Britain, not least in the restaurant business) you pass through tea gardens – the oldest from 1854, that stretch all the way to the city limits.
	www.sasnet.lu.se /cont05sylhet.html (1727 words)

	Geography (Karimganj District)
		The district is bounded on the North by Bangladesh and Cachar district; on the South by Mizoram and Tripura states, on the West by Bangladesh and Tripura and on the East by Hailakandi district.
		Karimganj district is actually shut in between two hill ranges, whereas there is a third hill that runs through the southern part of the district.
		The north and north-eastern portion of the district are mainly plains whereas the South and South-western parts are mainly covered with forest.
	karimganj.nic.in /geog.htm (831 words)

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