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11 unusual facts about Bangladesh


Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood

He was born in Goa, educated in Karachi and worked for many years as a journalist in India, Pakistan and the UK.

Bazlul Chowdhury

Professor Bazlul Mobin Chowdhury (16 March 1941 – 29 December 2010) was the Vice-Chancellor of the Independent University, Bangladesh.

Dhakeshwari Temple

At that time the temple was covered by jungle and in its north the Urdu road went westward towards Pilkhana and at its south west was Mirpur road.

Gokulanada Gitiswami

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

Hortal

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

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.

Raja Ganesha

According to a tradition, Dinajpur derived its name from Raja Dinaj or Dinaraj who founded the Dinajpur Raj (the estate of Dinajpur).

Ram Sundar Pilot High School, Bishwanath, Sylhet

Ramsundar Pilot High School is a High School situated in Biswanath, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Rumana

Rumana Monzur, a Bangladeshi women studying in Canada who was blinded by her husband out of jealousy and in an attempt to stop her education.

Sarwar Jahan

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


2013 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence

In India, activists of Gairik Bharat burned an effigy of Sheikh Hasina in Silchar, in protest against her failure to protect the Hindu minorities in Bangladesh.

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.

A.K. Golam Jilani

A. K. Golam Jilani was born in 24 October 1904 in the Algichor village of the Nawabganj Upazila of the Dhaka district of British India (Present day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh).

Acid Survivors Foundation

ASF provides legal support for survivors by referring them to its legal partners including BRAC, Aino Salish Kendro (ASK), the Bangladesh National Women Lawyer’s Association (BNWLA), and the Bangladesh Legal Aid Services and Trust (BLAST).

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.

Bangladeshi English literature

It was highly praised in India as a literary fiction but censured in Bangladesh because of portraying Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as a dictator.

Chatteshwari Temple

Located in the centre of Chittagong city in Bangladesh, this Hindu temple is dedicated to the Goddess Kali.

Chilmari Upazila

During the war of Independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the famous Chilmari Expedition was conducted here by then BDF Sector 11, Mankarchar Sub-Sector, led by Squadron Leader M. Hamidullah Khan.

Chittagong Government High School

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

Citrus macroptera

A beef shatkora dish cooked by local chefs in Bangladesh is featured in the British chef Rick Stein's cookery programme Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey (in Episode 6), which was broadcast by the BBC on 20 August 2009.

Collaborators Act 1972

Al-Shams and Al-Badr was also formed in order to counter the guerrilla activities of the Mukti Bahini which grew increasingly organised and militarily successful during in the second half of 1971.

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.

Debaprasad Ghosh

Debaprasad was born in a Bengali Hindu family on 15 March 1894 in the village of Gava, in the district of Barisal, in eastern Bengal, now in Bangladesh.

Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited

For the first time in December 1982, the eastern and western halves of the country were electrically connected through the commissioning of double circuit 230 kV transmission line across the Jamuna river energized at 132 kV between Ishurdi and Tongi called the first East-West Inter-connector.

Duarabazar High School

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

History of cricket in Bangladesh

The MA Aziz Stadium in Chittagong also dates back to 1954 as a first-class venue but it was not used for Tests until Bangladesh played there in 2001.

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.

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.

Kamarupa

The southern boundary was near the border between the Dhaka and Mymensingh districts in Bangladesh.

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.

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.

Muhammad Kamaruzzaman

Kamaruzzaman was born on 4 July 1952, at Sajbarkhila village in Sherpur, Bangladesh (at the time East Pakistan).

Muhammad Shahidullah

His another son Murtaja Baseer is considered as one of the most stylish and foremost painters in Bangladesh.

Parbati Sankar Roy Choudhury

Parbati Sankar Roy Choudhury, (c. 1850-1918) was the zamindar of Teota (now in Manikganj District, Bangladesh) and a philanthropic landholder.

Peerless Group

The Peerless Insurance Company Limited was founded in Narayanganj, Bangladesh by Radhyashyam Roy in 1932, soon after he was joined by his friend K. K Chatterjee and they started Provident Fund, with an investment of Rs. 20,000.

Pig-tailed macaque

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

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.

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.

Rohingya conflict in Western Burma

On 7 November 2012, one soldier from the Burmese Army was reportedly beheaded and three others were captured by the Muslim rebels, by an armed group of the Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO), in their guerrilla offensive against the Burmese army in northern Maungdaw township on the Burma-Bangladesh border.

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.

Shahidullah

Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah, a linguist, polyglot, and educator from Bangladesh

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.

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.

Tipra

Tripuri people, original inhabitants of the Kingdom of Tripura in North-East India and Bangladesh

Tongi–Bhairab–Akhaura line

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

Unilever Bangladesh Limited

Unilever Bangladesh Limited started its journey in Bangladesh with the production of soaps in its factory in Kalurghat, Chittagong.

Viqarunnisa Noon College

Viqarunnisa Noon College is a center for higher secondary education in Bailey Road, Dhaka, 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.