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unusual facts about Bangla-Pesa



.bangla

.bd is the primary Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Bangladesh.

Abul Ahsan Chowdhury

Dr Chowdhury has published two books of poetry—Swadesh Amar Bangla (1971) and Nilkantha Jiban Tumi (1974) and a range of research publications, including on Mir Mosharraf Hossain and Kangal Harinath Mazumder,

Ankur

Ankur Group, a community working toward supporting Bengali language (Bangla) on GNU/Linux operating system

Ankur Group

The group is also working on providing Bangla support for some major XServer applications such as office suites, databases, development tools and desktop environments such as GNOME and KDE.

In January, 2003, Taneem Ahmed announced the GNOME Bangla Translation Project and began recruiting for the project.

Asaduzzaman Noor

Ke Hotey Chay Kotipoti:Noor hosts the show.Its a Bengali game show which is a Bangla version of the British famous show "who wants to be millionaire?

Bangla TV

Bangla TV is a UK-based satellite television channel, established by the British Bangladeshis targeting the Bengali speaking people in the United Kingdom, and in Europe.

Bangladesh Education and Research Network

The central node of the network is in the premises of the BUGC situated at Agargaon, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka.

Bangladeshi passport

The inside back of the passport contains an embossed image of the National Parliament of Bangladesh in Bengali (Bangla) and English, with a quotation of Louis I Kahn, the architect of the complex, written in English.

The inside cover of a machine readable Bangladeshi passport has an embossed image of the National Monument, with the national anthem of Bangladesh written in Bengali (Bangla) and English.

Chhagalnaiya Upazila

Contrary to a popular tale involving the visit of Mahatma Gandhi to ease communal tension of this area, along with his constant companion on tours, a goat ("chhagal" in Bangla), the name of this region considerably antedates that incident of communal riots in 1946.

Eco-Pesa

The Bangla-Pesa uses a mutual credit model where there is no longer need for national currency or donor funds to keep it running.

Gurudwara Bangla Sahib

Gurdwara Bangla Sahib was originally a bungalow belonging to Raja Jai Singh, an Indian ruler in the seventeenth century, and was known as Jaisinghpura Palace, in Jaisingh Pura, an historic neighbourhood demolished to make way for the Connaught Place, shopping district.

Kishore Bangla

Regular contributors to the Kishore Bangla included children's author Fayez Ahmed, Ali Imam, Mobarak Hossain Khan, Tofazzal Hossain, Shahriar Kabir, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Rokeya Sultana, Rhymer Rabbani Choudhury, poet Abu Hassan Shahriar, writer Faizul Latif Chowdhury, Ahmed Mazhar, novelist Nasreen Jahan, Imdadul Hoque Milon rhyme-composer Amirul Islam and Lutfar Rahman Riton.

The work team of Kishore Bangla comprised, in addition to Rafiqul Haque, writer Abdur Rahman, actor and graphic artist Afzal Hossain, journalist Saiful Alam Lytton and author Mustafa Majid, among others.

Lucy Locket

The song "Laal jhuti kakatua" (Bangla: লাল ঝুটি কাকাতুয়া), set to the "Yankee Doodle"/"Lucy Locket" melody, is a favourite among the Bengali people.

Luis Vélez de Guevara

The play Más pesa el rey que la sangre, which translates into "The King weighs more than blood (kinship)" is based on the episode of the Reconquista in which the nobleman Alonso Pérez de Guzmán allows his son to be sacrificed, rather than surrender his King's possession of Tarifa.

M-Pesa

Development and second line support responsibilities were transferred to IBM in September 2009, to where most of the original Sagentia team transferred.

S Batchelor (Gamos) and N Hughes (Vodafone CSR) discussed how a system of money transfer could be created in Kenya.

In 2002, Researchers at Gamos and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, funded by Department for International Development UK, documented that in Uganda, Botswana and Ghana, people were spontaneously using airtime as a proxy for money transfer.

Md.Mozammel Haque

His writings influenced the then vice-chancellor of Calcutta University Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee so much that he appointed him as an examiner of Bangla language in the Matriculation Examination of 1919.

Murtaja Baseer

Baseer has also worked as a screenplay writer, art director and chief assistant director for the Bangla film Nadi O Nari in 1964, and as an art director for the Urdu film Kaise Kahoon in 1965.

Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi

The Akademi is housed in two separate buildings, one at Nandan-Rabindra Sadan Complex (also mentioned as Bangla Akademi-Rabindra Sadan or Nandan-Bangla Akademi Complex during the Akademi festivals and book fairs) in South Kolkata and the other at Rabindra-Okakura Bhaban, Bidhannagar (Salt Lake).

Patharkat

In Lucknow, they are found mainly in the localities of Qaisar Bagh, Saafatgang, Daligang, Bangla Bazar, Nishatgang, Lal Kuan and Chinhat.

Pohela Boishakh

lebration for the Bangla new year in Australia is the Sydney Boishakhi Mela which was traditionally held at the Burwood Girls High School; from 2006 it has been held at the Sydney Olympic Park.

Shamsur Rahman

During the period of President Ershad he got involved with internal turbulence in the Dainik Bangla.

South Asian Anthem

Hindi, English, Nepali, Bangla, Pashto, Urdu, Sinhala, Dzongkha and Dhivehi .


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