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Babuganj Upazila
Babuganj ( bn, বাবুগঞ্জ) is an administrative unit of Barisal District in the Division of Barisal, Bangladesh. Geography Babuganj is located at . It has a total area of 164.88 km2. Demographics According to the 2011 Bangladesh census In 2011, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, conducted a national census in Bangladesh, which provided a provisional estimate of the total population of the country as 142,319,000. The previous decennial census was the 2001 census. Data were reco ..., Babuganj Upazila had 31,663 households and a population of 140,361, 7.0% of whom lived in urban areas. 9.1% of the population was under the age of 5. The literacy rate (age 7 and over) was 68.8%, compared to the national average of 51.8%. Points of interest Durgasagar Durgasagar, with an area of about 2,500 hectare, is the largest pond or dighi of southern Bangladesh. It is located at Madhabpasa village of Babuganj upazila, about 11 km away from Barisal town. Locally it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upazilas Of Bangladesh
An ''upazila'' ( bn, উপজেলা, upôzela, lit=sub-district pronounced: ), formerly called ''thana'', is an administrative region in Bangladesh, functioning as a sub-unit of a district. It can be seen as an analogous to a county or a borough of Western countries. Rural upazilas are further administratively divided into union council areas (union parishads). Bangladesh ha495 upazilas(as of 20 Oct 2022). The upazilas are the second lowest tier of regional administration in Bangladesh. The administrative structure consists of divisions (8), districts (64), upazilas (495) and union parishads (UPs). This system of devolution was introduced by the former military ruler and president of Bangladesh, Lieutenant General Hossain Mohammad Ershad, in an attempt to strengthen local government. Below UPs, villages (''gram'') and ''para'' exist, but these have no administrative power and elected members. The Local Government Ordinance of 1982 was amended a year later, redesignati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asiatic Society Of Bangladesh
The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh is a non political and non profit research organisation registered under both Society Act of 1864 and NGO Bureau, Government of Bangladesh. The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh was established as the Asiatic Society of East Pakistan in Dhaka in 1952 by a number of Muslim leaders, and renamed in 1972. Ahmed Hasan Dani, a noted Muslim historian and archaeologist of Pakistan played an important role in founding this society. He was assisted by Muhammad Shahidullah, a Bengali linguist. The society is housed in Nimtali, walking distance from the Curzon Hall of Dhaka University, locality of Old Dhaka. Publications The society's publications include: * ''Banglapedia, the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh'' (edition 2, 2012) * ''Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh'' (2010, 28 volumes) * ''Cultural Survey of Bangladesh, a documentation of the country's cultural history, tradition and heritage'' (2008, 12 volumes) * ''Children’s Banglapedia' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sal Khan
Salman Amin Khan (born October 11, 1976), commonly known as Sal Khan, is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform and an organization with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science. He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a brick-and-mortar private school in Mountain View, California. , the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has 7.62 million subscribers, and its videos have been viewed more than 1.97 billion times. In 2012, ''Time'' named Khan in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In the same year, ''Forbes'' magazine featured Khan on its cover, with the story "$1 Trillion Opportunity." Early life and family Salman Amin Khan was born on October 11, 1976 to Bengali Muslim parents Fakhrul Amin Khan (d. 1990) and Masuda Khan in Metairie, Louisiana. His father was a physician, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speaker Of The National Assembly Of Pakistan
The Speaker of the National Assembly (Urdu: اسپیکر قومی اسمبلی); informally as Speaker National Assembly, is the presiding official of the National Assembly of Pakistan– a lower house of the Parliament of Pakistan. The office has its roots in 1947 and was reestablished in 1973 in accordance to the Constitution; the speaker presides over the chamber composed of people's representatives elected on the basis of universal franchise. The Speaker is Second in the line of succession to the President of Pakistan and occupies fourth position in the Warrant of Precedence, after the President, the Prime Minister and the Chairman of Senate. In addition, the Speaker is the spokesman of the National Assembly to the outside world, and is non-partisan in his approach. To exercise the great authority that stems from the respect, affection and consideration which every Member of the House bestows upon the holder of this high office, the Speaker shows complete impartiali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Wahab Khan (politician)
Abdul Wahab Khan ( bn, আব্দুল ওহাব খান; 18 April 1898 – 12 July 1972) was the 3rd speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan. He is the grandfather of Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy. Early life and family Khan was born on 18 April 1898 to a middle-class Bengali Muslim family of Khans in the village of Rahmatpur in Babuganj, Backergunge District, Bengal Presidency. The village was named after his ancestor, Rahmat Khan, an Afghan migrant who was killed in conflict with Raja Kandarpanarayan Rai of Chandradwip in the 16th century. His father, Sadat Ali Khan, was a '' moulvi''. Khan completed his Bachelor of Arts from Brojomohun College in 1918, and his Bachelor of Laws from the University of Calcutta in 1921.সংসদ বাঙালি চরিতাভিধান (in Bengali) Career Khan served as an assistant public prosecutor for twenty years at the Barisal Court. He became the vice-chairman of Barisal Sadar Local Board in 1922, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirtinarayan Basu
Kirtinarayan Basu ( bn, কীর্তিনারায়ণ বসু; r. 1668), also spelt Kirti Narayan Basu, was the fifth ''raja'' of medieval Chandradwip, a ''zamindari'' which covered much of the Barisal Division of present-day Bangladesh. Background Kirtinarayan Basu was born in the 17th-century to an aristocratic Bengali Kayastha family in the Madhabpasha Palace of Chandradwip, which had become a feudal territory of the Mughal Empire following the defeat of his father, Ramchandra Basu, against the forces of Islam Khan I in 1611. His mother, Vimala, was the first wife of Ramchandra Basu and the daughter of Raja Pratapaditya of Jessore. Reign Kirtinarayan became the ''Raja'' of Chandradwip following the death of his father, Ramchandra. Shortly after his accession, Chandradwip's Portuguese military commander, João Geri, launched a rebellion with 10,000 soldiers. Kirtinarayan rallied the supporting remnants of the army and a three-day battle occurred between the two for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Parishad
Union council ( bn, ইউনিয়ন পরিষদ, translit=iūniyan pariṣad, translit-std=IAST), also known as union parishad, rural council, rural union and simply union, is the smallest rural administrative and local government unit in Bangladesh. Each union council is made up of nine wards. Usually one village is designated as a ward. There are 4,562 unions in Bangladesh. A union council consists of a chairman and twelve members including three members exclusively reserved for women. Union councils are formed under the ''Local Government (Union Parishads) Act, 2009''. The boundary of each union council is demarcated by the Deputy Commissioner of the District. A union council is the body primarily responsible for agricultural, industrial and community development within the local limits of the union. History The term ''union'' dates back to the 1870 British legislation titled the ''Village Chowkidari Act'' which established union ''panchayats'' for collecting tax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Bangladesh Census
In 2011, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, conducted a national census in Bangladesh, which provided a provisional estimate of the total population of the country as 142,319,000. The previous decennial census was the 2001 census. Data were recorded from all of the districts and upazilas and main cities in Bangladesh including statistical data on population size, households, sex and age distribution, marital status, economically active population, literacy and educational attainment, religion, number of children etc. Bangladesh and India also conducted their first joint census of areas along their border in 2011. According to the census, Hindus constituted 8.5 per cent of the population as of 2011, down from 9.6 per cent in the 2001 census. Bangladesh have a population of 144,043,697 as per 2011 census report. Majority of 130,201,097 reported that they were Muslims, 12,301,331 reported as Hindus, 864,262 as Buddhists, 532,961 as Christians and 201,661 as others. See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated countries in the world, and shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast; to the south it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. It is narrowly separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor; and from China by the Indian state of Sikkim in the north. Dhaka, the capital and list of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city, is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Chittagong, the second-largest city, is the busiest port on the Bay of Bengal. The official language is Bengali language, Bengali, one of the easternmost branches of the Indo-Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guthia Mosque
The Baitul Aman Jame Masjid Complex ( bn, বাইতুল আমান জামে মসজিদ, ar, بيت الأمان جامع مسجد), commonly known as Guthia Mosque ( bn, গুঠিয়া মসজিদ) of Barisal, is a mosque complex of Bangladesh having a land area of 14 acres, comparing to the 8.30 acres land area of the national mosque Baitul Mukarram of the country. The Baitul Aman Jame Masjid Complex consists of a mosque, a large eidgah, a graveyard, three lakes, a madrasa and an orphanage. Established on December 16, 2003, Guthia Mosque is also a tourist spot in Bangladesh. Construction Construction of the mosque complex began on December 16, 2003, under the supervision of SAS Foundation. A small mosque already existed. The complex is a private initiative by Sharifuddin Ahmed Santu, a local politician and businessman who lived abroad. The mosque took four years and one month to be completed. The complex was designed by architect M. Ameenul Haq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh Standard Time
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the most densely populated countries in the world, and shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast; to the south it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. It is narrowly separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor; and from China by the Indian state of Sikkim in the north. Dhaka, the capital and largest city, is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Chittagong, the second-largest city, is the busiest port on the Bay of Bengal. The official language is Bengali, one of the easternmost branches of the Indo-European language family. Bangladesh forms the sovereign part of the historic and ethnolinguistic region of Bengal, which was divided during the Partition of Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barisal District
Barisal District, officially spelled Barishal District from April 2018, is a district in south-central Bangladesh, formerly called Bakerganj district, established in 1797. Its headquarters are in the city of Barisal, which is also the headquarters of Barisal Division.''About Barisal'' Local Government Engineering Department, Local Government Division, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives; retrieved 14 May 2014. History Barisal District is a district in southern Bangladesh and is also the headquarter of Barisal Division. Barisal District traces its origins to Bakerganj district which was established in 1797. It was placed in |
