It hit the coast of Backerganj (near Meghna estuary) in present-day Barisal, Bangladesh, killing about 200,000 people, half of whom were drowned by the storm surge, and the remainder died in the resultant famine.
Anil Kumar Dutta was born in Sahanagar district of south Kolkata to a family hailing from Barisal.
The famous Barisal Conspiracy Case of 1913 established the fact that there were hundreds of revolutionary followers of the Samiti in the Barisal district alone.
Barisal and Khulna: Saltwater fish and seafood are quite prevalent in these areas.
In the dialects prevalent in much of eastern Bangladesh (Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions), many of the stops and affricates heard in Kolkata Bengali are pronounced as fricatives.
Early the next day the IMD reported that Rashmi had made landfall on the Bangladesh coast, near Barisal.
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.
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His father Kshetramohan Ghosh was professor of philosophy at the Brajamohan College in Barisal.
As his father had work that reassigned him to different locations, Chowdhury moved with his father and family to Barisal.
The station went live on September 21, 2006 and is currently available in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal, Mymensingh and Cox's Bazar.
Bangladesh has now over 200 shipbuilding companies, mostly concentrated in Dhaka, Chittagong, Narayanganj, Barisal and Khulna.
Inception of the European theatre in Bangladesh or erstwhile East Bengal took place in 1855 with a performance of Svarna Sharnkhal by Durgadas Kar at Barisal.
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Dasgupta obtained his Matriculation degree from Goila School (established in 1883 by his uncle, Rajnikanto Dasgupta) in 1920; his Intermediate degree from the Brojomohun College, Barisal, East Bengal, 1922, which was then affiliated with the University of Calcutta.
In recent years, local Bangladeshi hip hop artists have begun to emerge in underground scenes in large cities such as Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet and Barisal.
It can be divided into further sub-zones: (1) the Faridpur Trough; (2) the Barisal High; (3) the Hatiya Trough; (4) the Sylhet Trough; and (5) the Madhupur High.
The home and away tournament has divisional teams from Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Khulna, Barisal and Rajshahi.
Ikhtiyar Khilji left the town of Devkot in 1206 to attack into Tibet, leaving Ali Mardan Khilji in Ghoraghat Upazila to watch the eastern frontier from his headquarters at Barisal.
The French bought it from Matiullah, whose father, Sheikh Enayetullah, a zamindar of Jamalpur pargana in Barisal during Mughals reign, built it as his Rang Mahal (pleasure house).
Zaman Group of Industries has operations in all 64 districts of Bangladesh mostly in Dhaka, Khulna, Jessore, Chuadanga, Rajshahi, Barisal, and Chittagong.