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13 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.

Bengala

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

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.

Hiren Roy

Born in Bangladesh in 1920, Roy went to Kolkata at the age of 12 to learn the art of sitar playing.

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.

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.

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.

Satya Dharma

The shrine of Mohatma Gurunath Sengupta at Goalgram, Muksudpur, Gopalganj in Bangladesh is considered as one of the holy places by the followers.


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).

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).

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).

Ajoy

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

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.

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.

Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher

The Blue-Throated Flycatcher is found much of the Indian Subcontinent, all through the Himalayas, the plains and Western Ghats of India in the cold months, and also extends eastwards into Bangladesh, and to Arakan and the Tenasserim Hills in Myanmar.

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.

Chatteshwari Temple

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

Chaya Chobi

Chaya Chobi is an upcoming Dhallywood romantic film directed by Muhammad Mustafa Kamal Raaj and produced by Nine Entertainment.

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.

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.

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.

Enamul Karim Nirjhar

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

Govindaganj

Govindaganj is a market town within the upazila of Chhatak, in the District of Sunamganj, Sylhet Division, Bangladesh.

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.

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

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.

Kabori Sarwar

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

Kazipur River

At the extreme northerly point of the district the Jamuna throws off a small offshoot, called the Kazipur river, which flows south through the Kazipur thana and joins the Ichhamati of the Serajganj subdivision.

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.

Legatum

Iqbal Quadir, founder of Grameenphone in Bangladesh, is the Center's founder and director.

Mog people

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

Muhammad Shahidullah

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

National Defense Force

Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini, a paramilitary force operating in Bangladesh from 1972 to 1975

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.

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.

Shahidullah

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

Shitalakshya River

In its initial stages it flows in a southwest direction and then east of the city of Narayanganj in central Bangladesh until it merges with the Dhaleswari near Kalagachhiya.

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.

Tribal Areas

Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh are considered as the Tribal areas of 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.

Zafar Sobhan

He is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Dhaka Tribune, one of Bangladesh's largest circulating English-language newspapers.