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Friday, August 31, 2012

University of Dhaka

The University of Dhaka (commonly referred to as Dhaka University), is the oldest university in Bangladesh. It is a multidisciplinary analysis university. Established in 1921 by the British Government in India, the university was modeled on Oxbridge education.
During its aboriginal years, Dhaka University hosted advisers and scientists of the Indian Subcontinent, earning a acceptability as the Oxford of the East.[1][2] In the 1920s, one of its professors, Satyendra Nath Bose, formed with Albert Einstein in bearing the Bose-Einstein condensate. In the afterward decades, the acceptance and agents of this university shaped the history of Bangladesh, arena a axial role in the Bengali Language Movement and Bangladesh's abandon struggle. In March 1971, the Pakistan Army launched Operation Searchlight at the university, massacring acceptance and intellectuals, and sparking off the  Bangladesh Liberation War.
As of 2012, the university has a apprentice physique of 33,000 and a adroitness of 1,805. It is the better accessible university in Bangladesh and is the alone university from the country to be listed on AsiaWeek’s top 100 Universities in Asia.[3] Its campus is advance beyond a ample breadth of Ramna, in axial Dhaka. 

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Pohela boishakh


Bengali New Year (Bengali: নববর্ষ Nôbobôrsho) or Pôhela Boishakh (পহেলা বৈশাখ Pôhela Boishakh or পয়লা বৈশাখ Pôela Boishakh), occurring on 14th April, is the aboriginal day of the Bengali calendar, acclaimed in both Bangladesh and Indian accompaniment of West Bengal, and in Bengali communities in the added Indian states like : Assam, Tripura, Jharkhand and Orissa and all over India as able-bodied area the Bengali association arises . It coincides with the New Year's Days of abundant Southern Asian calendars.
Pôhela Boishakh connects all indigenous Bengalis irrespective of religious and bounded differences. In India, in West Bengal, Tripura and Assam, it is a accessible (state) anniversary and is about acclaimed in 14 April every year (or as per the Hindu Bengali calendar) . In Bangladesh, it is a civic anniversary .
In Bengali, Pohela stands for ‘first’ and Boishakh is aboriginal ages of Bengali calendar. The anniversary is acclaimed according to the Bengali Calendar.[1][2] Bangla New Year's anniversary are carefully affiliated with rural activity in Bengal. Usually on Pohela Boishakh, the home is thoroughly adjourned and cleaned; humans bath aboriginal in the morning and dress in acceptable clothes. They absorb abundant time of the day visiting relatives, accompany and neighbours. Appropriate foods are able to absorb guests. This is one rural anniversary that has become awfully big in the cities, abnormally in Dhaka.
Boishakhi fairs are abiding in abounding locations of the country. Assorted agronomical products, acceptable handicrafts, toys, cosmetics, as able-bodied as assorted kinds of aliment and sweets are awash at these fairs. The fairs aswell accommodate entertainment, with singers and dancers staging jatra (traditional plays), pala gan, kobigan, jarigan, gambhira gan, gazir gan and alkap gan. They present folk songs as able-bodied as baul, marfati, murshidi and bhatiali songs. Narrative plays like Laila-Majnu, Yusuf-Zulekha and Radha-Krishna are staged. Among added attractions of these fairs are boob shows and merry-go-rounds. Panta Ilish - a acceptable bowl of extra rice blood-soaked in baptize with absurd Hilsa, supplemented with broiled angle (Shutki), pickles (Achar), lentils (dal), blooming chillies and onion - a accepted bowl for the Pohela Boishakh anniversary in the city-limits of Kolkata and the accomplished of West Bengal. The a lot of colourful New Year's Day anniversary takes abode in Dhaka. Large numbers of humans accumulate aboriginal in the morning beneath the banyan timberline at Ramna Park area Chhayanat artists accessible the day with Rabindranath Tagore's acclaimed song, এসো, হে বৈশাখ, এসো এসো Esho, he Boishakh, Esho Esho (Come, O Boishakh, Come, Come). A agnate commemoration affable the new year is aswell captivated at the Convention of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka. Students and agents of the convention yield out a colourful advance and array annular the campus. Social and cultural organisations bless the day with cultural programmes. Newspapers accompany out appropriate supplements. There are aswell appropriate programmes on radio and television. The accepted Bengali year is 1419.Today, Pohela Boishakh celebrations aswell mark a day of cultural accord after acumen amid chic or religious affiliations. Of the above holidays acclaimed in Bangladesh, alone Pohela Boishakh comes after any preexisting expectations (specific religious identity, ability of gift-giving, etc.). Unlike holidays like Eid ul-Fitr, area bathrobe up in abundant clothes has become a norm, or Christmas area exchanging ability has become an basic allotment of the holiday, Pohela Boishakh is absolutely about adulatory the simpler, rural roots of the Bengal. As a result, added humans can participate in the anniversary calm after the accountability of accepting to acknowledge one's class, religion, or banking capacity.

bandarban


   

Bandarban (Bengali: বান্দরবান) is a commune in South-Eastern Bangladesh, and a allotment of the Chittagong Division and Chittagong Hill Tracts. Bandarban is admired as one of the a lot of adorable biking places in Bangladesh.One of the three acropolis districts of Bangladesh and a allotment of the Chittagong Acropolis Tracts, Bandarban (4,479 km²) is not alone the far-off commune of the country, but aswell is the atomic busy (population 292,900). The three accomplished aiguille of Bangladesh - Tahjindong (1280 meters, aswell accepted as bijoy)[* The acme of Tahjindong is 829.66m +/-3m as per a contempo altitude with Garmin GPSMAP60CSX GPS], Mowdok Mual (1052 m), and Keokradong (1230 m) [* The acme of Keokradong is 986m +/-3m as per a contempo altitude with Garmin GPSMAP60CX GPS], - are amid in Bandarban district, as able-bodied as Raikhiang Lake, the accomplished basin in Bangladesh[citation needed]. Chimbuk aiguille and Boga Basin are two added awful acclaimed appearance of the district. The anew appear accomplished aiguille of Bangladesh - Saka Haphong(3488 ft) is aswell actuality in Thanchi upazila. Bandarban lies, by bus, eight hours abroad from Dhaka, two hours from Chittagong and three hours from Cox's Bazaar. It is aswell accessible to get there by a six hour bus ride from Rangamati.
The Buddha Dhatu Jadi, the better Buddhist temple in Bangladesh, amid in Balaghata, 4 km from the town.This abode attracts abounding tourists every year. This Theravada Buddhist temple is fabricated absolutely in the appearance of South-East Asia and houses the additional better bronze of Buddha in Bangladesh. The avalanche called Shoilo Propat at Milanchari is addition abode tourists like to visit.

The blind arch at Meghla.
The abundant Buddhist temples, accepted as kyang in bounded tongue, and bhihars in the boondocks cover the awful notable the Rajvihar (royal vihar) at Jadipara and the Ujanipara Bhihar. Bawm villages about Chimbuk, and Mru villages a little added off, are aswell lie aural a day's adventure from the town. Prantik Lake, Jibannagar and Kyachlong Lake are some added places of interest. Boat ride on the river Sangu is one of the capital allure actuality for tourists.Heavily abased on Jumm farming, which is a carve and bake agronomical technique, Bandarban produces little that is of bread-and-butter amount alfresco cocky burning of the acropolis people, aswell accepted as Jumia. Fruits (banana, pineapple, jackfruit, papaya), masala (ginger, turmeric) and affiliated bolt are the above exports of the district, with tourism growing fast as a antecedent of revenue.[citation needed] Much of the barter in fruit, like a lot of added business in the district, has been taken over by Bengali settlers.
Clothes are mostly fabricated of cotton, absolute alien from Myanmar and cottony affection which is a aberration in a lot of of Bangladesh. All affection is spun and alloyed by hand. To advance bounded bolt there now is a Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industry Corporation (BSCIC) centermost in Bandarban calm with a admirable sales centre. BSCIC has aswell alien automated spinning and aberrant here.
Bamboo and tobacco grows in cogent quantity, but abundantly is not advised as economically assisting products. Bamboo is used, forth with canes, not just to accomplish the acceptable drag houses, but is the actual for a lot of affiliated craft, including the bamboo smoker pipe, a above bloom hazard. Some bamboo-craft and local-made cigarillos are now exported out of the district.
Two church-based development alignment - Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB) and Caritas are the above armament of development in the district. UNICEF is active the apprenticeship effort, which is mostly directed at adolescent children.

Kaptai lake

Kaptai Basin is a man fabricated basin in south-eastern Bangladesh. It is amid in the Kaptai Upazila beneath Rangamati District of Chittagong Division. The basin was created as a aftereffect of architecture the Kaptai Dam on the Karnaphuli River, as allotment of the Karnaphuli Hydro-electric project. The Kaptai Lake's boilerplate abyss is 100 anxiety (30 m) and best abyss is 490 anxiety (150 m).
Construction of the backlog for the hydro-electric bulb began in 1956 by the Government of East Pakistan.[1] As a result, 54,000 acreage (220 km2) of farmland in the Rangamati District went beneath baptize and created the lake. The hydro-electric activity was adjourned by the United States. The activity was accomplished in 1962. International Engineering Company and Utah International Inc. accustomed the arrangement for architecture of the dam. The dam is 670.8 meters long, and 54.7 meters high. The dam has a 745 anxiety (227 m) continued spillway absolute 16 gates. Through the spillway 5,250,000 cu ft/s (149,000 m3/s) of baptize can pass. The acreage that went beneath baptize as a aftereffect of the dam construction, was 40% of the absolute abundant acreage in the area. Along with that, 29 aboveboard afar (75 km2) of the Government-owned forest, and 234 aboveboard afar (610 km2) of added backwoods acreage went beneath water. About 18,000 families with a absolute of about 100 thousand humans were aswell displaced. The alcazar of the baron of the Chakmas was aswell abounding and is now beneath water.[1]

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Sent martin


Saint Martin (French: Saint-Martin; Dutch: Sint Maarten) is an island in the northeast Caribbean, about 300 km (190 mi) east of Puerto Rico. The 87 km2 island is disconnected almost 60/40 amid France (53 km2)[1] and the Kingdom of the Netherlands (34 km2);[2] however, the Dutch ancillary has the beyond population. It is one of the aboriginal sea islands disconnected amid two nations, a analysis dating to 1648. The southern Dutch allotment comprises Sint Maarten and is one of four basic countries that anatomy the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The arctic French allotment comprises the Collectivité de Saint-Martin (Collectivity of St. Martin) and is an across absoluteness of France.
On January 1, 2007 the citizenry of the absolute island was 74,852 inhabitants, with 38,927 active on the Dutch side,[3] and 35,925 on the French side.[4]
Collectively, the two territories are accepted as "St-Martin / St Maarten". Sometimes SXM, the IATA identifier for Princess Juliana International Airport (the island's capital airport), is acclimated to accredit to the island.


In 1493, during Christopher Columbus' additional voyages to the West Indies, aloft aboriginal analysis the island he called it Isla de San Martín afterwards Saint Martin of Tours because it was 11 November, St. Martin Day. However, admitting he claimed it as a Spanish territory, Columbus never landed there, and Spain fabricated the adjustment of the island a low priority.
The French and Dutch, on the added hand, both coveted the island. While the French capital to arrive the islands amid Trinidad and Bermuda, the Dutch begin San Martín a acceptable center point amid their colonies in New Amsterdam (present day New York) and Brazil. With few humans inhabiting the island, the Dutch calmly founded a adjustment there in 1631, architecture Fort Amsterdam as aegis from invaders. Jan Claeszen Van Campen became its aboriginal governor, and anon thereafter the Dutch East India Company began their alkali mining operations. French and British settlements sprang up on the island as well. Taking agenda of these acknowledged colonies and absent to advance their ascendancy of the alkali trade, the Spanish now begin St. Martin abundant added appealing. The Eighty Years' War which had been angry amid Spain and the Netherlands provided added allurement to attack.
Spanish armament captured Saint Martin from the Dutch in 1633, abduction ascendancy and active a lot of or all of the colonists off the island. At Point Blanche, they congenital what is now Old Spanish Fort to defended the territory. Although the Dutch retaliated in several attempts to win aback St. Martin, they failed. Fifteen years afterwards the Spanish baffled the island, the Eighty Years' War ended. Since they no best bare a abject in the Caribbean and St. Martin almost angry a profit, the Spanish absent their affection to abide arresting it. In 1648, they bare the island.
With St. Martin chargeless again, both the Dutch and the French jumped at the adventitious to re-establish their settlements. Dutch colonists came from St. Eustatius, while the French came from St. Kitts. Afterwards some antecedent conflict, both abandon accomplished that neither would crop easily. Preferring to abstain an absolute war, they active the Accord of Concordia in 1648, which disconnected the island in two. During the treaty's negotiation, the French had a agile of argosy ships off shore, which they acclimated as a blackmail to arrangement added acreage for themselves. In animosity of the treaty, relations amid the two abandon were not consistently cordial. Amid 1648 and 1816, conflicts afflicted the bound sixteen times. In the end, the French came out advanced with 21 aboveboard afar (54 km2) to the 16 aboveboard afar (41 km2) of the Dutch side.
Although the Spanish had been the aboriginal to acceptation disciplinarian to the island, their numbers had been few. But with the new agronomics of cotton,o tobacc, and sugar, accumulation numbers of disciplinarian were alien to plan on the plantations. The bondservant citizenry bound grew beyond than that of the acreage owners. Subjected to atrocious treatment, disciplinarian staged rebellions, and their cutting numbers fabricated them absurd to ignore. On 12 July 1848, the French abolished bullwork on their ancillary of St. Martin. The Dutch followed clothing fifteen years later.