Category: Heritage
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Bangladesh seeking Dutch assistance for river dredging
Bangladesh is a land of rivers. The country is crisscrossed by more than three hundred rivers. River communication was the main communication in the past. Still river is preferred for low cost; moreover it is relatively eco-friendly. River communication takes time but its maintenance cost is much less than the highways. But today’s…
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National Zoo of Bangladesh facing challenges
CHISTY RAHIM from Dhaka: The entrance ticket of the national zoo of Bangladesh costs only tk.10/entrants. So that explained why the zoo was quiet crowded when I paid it a visit last Wednesday. It was rousing to see so many people paying a visit at the national zoo though, but then again, when you take…
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Dhaka to get a new museum “Taka Jadughar”
The central bank of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Bank building is housing a museum ‘currency museum’. Now the government has decided to move this museum to its training academy building at Mirpur. This will be relatively a larger museum and it will be known as “Taka Jadughar” instead of ‘currency museum’. Bangladesh has a rich history, sometimes…
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Tiger skin seized
There was a time when Royal Bengal Tigers were everywhere in Asia. But now the Sundarban is the only habitation of the Royal Bengal Tigers. Even there the tigers are facing many manmade and natural difficulties. Many experts fear that this giant creature is on the verge of extinction. The global climate change problem is…
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Now allegation is against the Chittagong Engineering University authority.
We are familiar with illegal hill digging news. Many powerful people dig hill in the hilly area for housing project. Police and environmental department of the government are failing to stop them. Intellectuals like teacher of universities condemn this. But now the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology is digging hill for their new building…
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World Bank suspends Padma bridge Fund
Implementation of the Padma multipurpose bridge-project as the consortium of the four lending agencies led by the World Bank become uncertain $2 billion has interrupted a Fund of $1.345 (b) for the project, to an allegation of corruption the bidding process for the appointment of construction monitoring consultant settled is. Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, Secretary…
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Up to 12 years of imprisonment proposed for killing tiger or elephant. (Part-II)
Now Wild Life Conservation Bill-2011 is placed in the parliament by the forest and environment ministry. It has included one thousand three hundred and twenty three species. It has identified 8 types of amphibians, 58 types of reptiles, 41 types of birds, and 40 types of mammals as endangered species. According to the bill the…
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Up to 12 years of imprisonment proposed for killing tiger or elephant. (Part-I)
There was a time when kings and landlords hunted bears or tigers. It was their recreation. Even government encouraged deforestation, because at that time government wanted more farmland. Time has changed, now experts are concerned about the conservation biodiversity. Herbs and wild life are in danger, Many species are gone any many more are on…
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That mortar shell is disposed.
Sometimes we get news from the western world that some stock of bullet, bomb or missile is found unexploded and those were kept or dropped in the world war-II. In Bangladesh we had one of the bloodiest liberation war of history in 1971, sometimes bullets or bombs are also found in many parts of the…
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National Museum to go online.
Bangladesh national museum which is situated Shahbag, will celebrate its 100th anniversary on 2013; before that this museum along with some others will be digitalized. That means, people will be able to see the valuable artifacts online. A digital database is being prepared that will also ensure transparency and hence it will reduce the risk…
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Mount Everest height measurment again!
Teenage boys and girls frequently measure height in their growing age. I remember those days when I measured my height without noticing others. After certain age everyone stops their measurement. But measurement of Everest does not stop, it’s still rising! Though it was not conquered before 1953, its height was measured by a Bengali in…
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Sundarban power plant debate.
When Sundarban is contesting for natural seven wonders, Prajatan (Tourism) Corporation is running its campaign for Sundarban; the government the planning to establish a thermal power plant in Rampal near Sundarban, along with a shipyard and a godown. Environmental activists saying this 1,320 MW coal-fired power plant would have serious adverse effect on the world’s…
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Architectural visions to save Dhaka’s birthright sites
Old Dhaka is customarily looked during as a partial of a city that is zero nonetheless an intricately woven intricacy of grubby streets, large piles of junk, dead-end alleys as great as cramped, decayed buildings. What is mostly longed for by many is that a “old town”, as it is ordinarily known, has measureless chronological…
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Tiger kills fisherman in Sunderbans
A fisherman was killed as well as partly eaten by a tiger in a eastern territory of a Sundarbans in Bagerhat upon Wednesday morning. Hemayet Sheikh, 32, was a proprietor of Dhangmary encampment in Dakope upazila of beside Khulna district, reports a compare in Bagerhat. Hemayet fell chase to a tiger whilst he, along with…
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Nicolas Cage Arrested For Domestic Violence
Police in New Orleans Louisiana took Oscar-winning actress Nicolas Cage in to control after what they inform as a ‘public fight’ with his wife Alice Kim. According to a Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office, a 47-year-old actress was arrested early this morning, after witnesses saw him ‘arguing with his wife’ upon a streets of New Orleans…