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14 unusual facts about Bangladesh


Anna Heringer

A proponent of sustainable architecture, she has designed a number of notable buildings including the METI Handmade School in Rudrapur, Bangladesh.

Dhaka Dental College and Hospital

Though the college did not have a building of its own at the beginning, Dhaka Dental College and Hospital (DDCH) is now the largest dental educational institution in modern Bangladesh.

Gokulanada Gitiswami

Gokulananda Singha was born on 26 November 1886, at the Village of Madhabpur of Moulvibazar district of Bangladesh.

Gopon Kotha

Gopon Kotha is the second studio album by Muhin, released in 2009 on the Boshudha Arb record label in Bangladesh.

Hortal

Hortal is a Bangladeshi political docudrama that centers around political unrest in Bangladesh and the daily lives of three journalists.

Human rights in Bangladesh

In 2005, Bangladesh experienced an unprecedented period of continuous political instability.

Market Development Forum

The Market Development Forum (MDF) is a group of market development-practitioner organizations working on strengthening of the private sector in Bangladesh.

Matlab Upazila

Matlab is also the primary rural field site for the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, and one of the most comprehensive and longest continually-operating health and demographic surveillance systems in the world.

Military history of Bangladesh

The Military of Bangladesh inherits much of its organisation and structure from the Military of British India and from 1947, the Pakistani Armed Forces and its composition was significantly altered with the absorption of the Mukti Bahini guerrilla forces following independence.

Munshibari Jama Masjid

The Taltoli Jama Masjid (formerly known as the Munshibari Jama Masjid) is a 19th century Jama Masjid of the village of Taltoli in Comilla, Bangladesh.

Rajyapala Kamboja

The Dinajpur Pillar Inscription makes mention of a certain Kamboja king called the Kambojanvaya Gaudapati (i.e. lord of Gauda, born in Kamboja family).

Sarwar Jahan

Sarwar Jahan (born 1962) is the founder of Southern University, Bangladesh.

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Since 2003, Sarwar Jahan is the treasurer and vice-president at Southern University, Bangladesh, as well as the secretary general of Southern University Bangladesh Trust since 2005.

South Asian Spelling Bee

The competition is open to any student in the between the ages of 8 and 14, who has at least one parent or grandparent who is of South Asian descent, or whose lineage can be traced to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and/or Sri Lanka.


7th March Speech of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

The western zone was popularly (and for a period of time, also officially) termed West Pakistan and the eastern zone (modern-day Bangladesh) was initially termed East Bengal and later, East Pakistan.

Abdus Suttar Khan

Abdus Suttar Khan a Bangladeshi Oxford Scholar and distinguished aerospace researcher for four decades with NASA, Pratt & Whitney, and the power generation company Alstom (Switzerland).

Ajoy

Ajoy Roy (born 1935), retired Professor of Physics at the Dhaka University of Bangladesh

Anwar Hossain Manju

Anwar Hossain Manju was born on January 1, 1946 in what is now the Pirojpur District of Bangladesh.

Archibald Jacob

Jacob was born in Jessore, Bangladesh, second surviving son of Captain Vickers Jacob (1789-1836), Indian army and later merchant and landholder in New South Wales, and his wife Anne née Watson (1796-1836).

Azad Maidan riots

The indigenous Bodo community of Assam alleged that the Muslim population is increasing in Assam due to the large influx of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, while the local Muslim community brushed it aside saying that they migrated to Assam during the British Raj.

Bangladesh at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games

(At the previous Commonwealth Youth Games, Bangladesh had a delegation of ten athletes.)

Bangladesh Standard Time

Bangladesh Standard Time is calculated on the basis of 90.00° E longitude, which passes over the Harukandi Union of Harirampur Upazila of the Manikganj District in Dhaka Division, Bangladesh.

Bangladesh–Haiti relations

Sony Norde, Pascal Millien are some of the most popular Haitian footballers playing in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh–Saudi Arabia relations

The military regimes of Ziaur Rahman and Hussain Muhammad Ershad took steps to forge strong commercial and cultural ties with Saudi Arabia.

Bengala

Bengala is another name for the region of Bengal in modern India and Bangladesh.

Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka

The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka, Bangladesh an autonomous organization, mainly responsible for holding two public examinations (SSC & HSS) and for providing recognition to the newly established non-government educational institutions and also for the supervision, control and developments of those institutions.

Chittagong Government High School

Chittagong Government High School is a secondary school in Chittagong city, in south-eastern Bangladesh.

Collaborators Act 1972

Muslim League leader Rajakar Athar Ali Khan was the father of a freedom fighter from Bagerhat who attained the gallantry award Bir Sreshtho for his bravery.

Cyclone Rashmi

Early the next day the IMD reported that Rashmi had made landfall on the Bangladesh coast, near Barisal.

Dayemi Complex Bangladesh

It is headquartered in the 700-year old Qadiri Sufi dynasty of Chotto Dayera Sharif, located in Azimpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Duarabazar High School

Duarabazar High School is a school located in Dowarabazar Upazila of Sunamganj District in the division of Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Enamul Karim Nirjhar

Enamul Karim Nirjhar was born to Muhammad Afsar Ali and Momtaz Begum in Rajshahi of the then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.

Geography of Assam

In the south, the Barak originating in the Barail Range (Assam-Nagaland border), flows through the Cachar district with a 25–30 miles (40–50 km) wide valley and enters Bangladesh with the name Surma.

Hridaypur railway station

The main line of the Eastern Bengal Railway from Sealdah to Ranaghat, was opened in 1862 and extended the same year to Kushtia, now in Bangladesh.

Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001

This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013.

Islamic Academy

The Islamic Foundation Bangladesh, an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Religious Affairs in Bangladesh working to disseminate values and ideals of Islam and carry out activities related to those values and ideals

Jagannatha Dasa Babaji

Jagannatha Dasa Babaji was born in a small village within the modern day Tangail district of Bangladesh.

Jahangir Alam

He was also a member of the Bangladesh team that won the ICC Trophy in 1997.

Jehangir Kabir

The brother of the Indian educationist, Humayun Kabir, Jehangir Kabir was born in village Komarpur, near Faridpur in what is now Bangladesh.

Jubo Digital Primary School

Jubo Digital Primary School is a primary school located at remote village named Aronkhola, Madhupur Upazila, Tangail, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Kabori Sarwar

Kabori was elected to the National Parliament in Bangladesh serving as an MP representing Narayanganj District no. 4.

Khan Jahan Ali Airport

Khan Jahan Ali Airport is a planned airport in Bagerhat, Bangladesh.

Khola Gaon

Khola Gaon is a medium sized village, in the Upazila of Chhatak, in the district of Sunamganj in the division of Sylhet, Bangladesh

Kings of Devon

The box office revenues from Kings of Devon went to raise money for Shishu Bikash Kendra, a school for underprivileged children in the Dhanmondi district of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Lakhai Upazila

Lakhai is the connecting point of 3 administrative divisions Sylhet, Dhaka & Chittagong of Bangladesh.

Mirzapur Cadet College

Atiur Rahman, economist, governor of Bangladesh Bank, 2009-...,

Mog people

Arakanese descendants living in present-day Bangladesh are known as Magh or Marma people.

No. 8 Squadron IAF

On 2 December 1943, they were moved to Doublemooring in Chittagong (now in Bangladesh) to work closely together with No. 82 Squadron RAF in the Burma Campaign.

Paul Olaf Bodding

He was a celebrated scientist, and he is still well known among the santals living in the states of Jharkand, Bihar and Assam as well as in Bangladesh and the Scandinavian countries.

Pig-tailed macaque

Northern Pig-tailed Macaque, Macaca leonina (Bangladesh to Vietnam, south to northern Malaysia)

Raipur Fish Hatchery and Training Centre

Raipur Fish Hatchery and Training Centre is a fish hatchery in Raipur Upazila, Lakshmipur District, Bangladesh.

Ramakrishna mission and ramkrishna math

Ramakishna Math and ramakrishna mission is a historically significant architectural monument situated by the river buriganga at mitfort area in old Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Real estate in Bangladesh

Real estate in Bangladesh has developed dramatically in recent years due to the construction boom and increasing number of high-rise buildings in the major urban centers of the country, most notably Dhaka and Chittagong.

Reenat Fauzia

After taking lessons on Sitar for twelve years, she joined participating in programs of Bangladesh Television and Bangladesh Betar (Radio Bangladesh).

Rikki Clarke

A groin injury to Andrew Flintoff led to Clarke being drafted into the squad for the 2003/04 tour of Bangladesh and on this tour he made his Test debut, at Dhaka.

Samson H. Chowdhury

He was considered as a Commercially Important Person (CIP) in Bangladesh.

Sealdah–Ranaghat line

The main line of the Eastern Bengal Railway from Sealdah to Ranaghat, was opened in 1862 and extended to Kushtia, now in Bangladesh, within two months.

Sultans of Sylhet

In Sultans of Sylhet it is bowler Nazmul Hossain who has been on the Bangladesh national team when they beat world number one Australia.

Sunara Begum

As a photographer her work has been published in France, UK, China, India and Bangladesh, in magazines and newspapers including Le Monde, and L'Parisian.

Tahrunessa Abdullah

During this Liberation War the Abdullahs took into their small two-bedroom home the wife and two young sons of Major Ziaur Rahman, later president of Bangladesh, but then a member of the Mukti Bahini (freedom fighters).

Tangon River

After originating in West Bengal, it passes through Panchagarh District, Pirganj in Rangpur District, Bochaganj in Rajshahi District and Biral in Dinajpur District in Bangladesh before it flows through Kushmandi and Bansihari community development blocks of Dakshin Dinajpur district in West Bengal.

Tongi–Bhairab–Akhaura line

The Tongi–Bhairab–Akhaura line is a railway line connecting Tongi and Akhaura, via Bhairab Bazar in Bangladesh.

Wangala

Wangala (also known as Hundred Drums, Wanna, Wanna Rongchuwa) a harvest festival celebrated by the Garo tribe, who lives in Meghalaya, Assam in India and Greater Mymensingh in Bangladesh.