Sunday November 1, 2009 10:39
Bangladesh is a land of beauty and there are many attractions that you must see while you visit Bangladesh. Her tourist attractions include mosques & monuments, resorts, beaches, picnic sports, forest and wild life. If you are going to make plane to have a trip to Bangladesh, to make it worthwhile try to visit all [...]
Sunday October 18, 2009 05:23
Mahasthan means a place of sanctity and garh means fort. A Sanskrit text “Vallalcharita” of the 13th century first mentioned the place “Mahasthan”, to mean the same place the same text also mentions two more names – Pundrakshetra, land of the Pundras, and Pundranagara, city of the Pundras. In 1685, an administrative order mentioned the [...]
Friday September 25, 2009 00:09
I was serving at Sylhet in a Govt. rural development department during 1979 to 1985. One of my friends Mr. Wahab, he served in a British Pharmaceutical company. Once in the early December in 1982, we decided to have a trip to Hakaluki Haur, the greatest grazing field of migrating birds in Bangladesh. . “Haur” [...]
Monday September 21, 2009 11:09
While, I was working in Sylhet, I had many gusts in every month then I expect. The reasons behind this are that Sylhet region is amongst few places of the country where the topography is prominently featured by hills and hillocks, dales and valleys, scenic tea plantations and lush green tropical forests. The 14th century [...]
Wednesday August 26, 2009 03:31
Paharpur is a name of a village under Jamalganj upazila of Naogaon district. Naogaon is a district of greater Rajshahi. It is almost 270 km from Dhaka city. Paharpur, it had taken its name from a high mound, which looked like Pahar or hillock. It is not a natural hill; the big hill is made [...]
Saturday July 11, 2009 05:19
Perhaps it was month of July 2007. One fine morning I was relaxing and going through the daily news paper. It was a holiday. By hearing the calling bell, I was surprise! Who is there? I was not expecting any one so early. By the way, at that time I was working for a national [...]
Saturday March 21, 2009 08:57
I have been in Dhaka for long time. Dhaka is such a crowdie and noise city to live in visit. I was so bore, I thought it would be a change to visit Srimangal. Srimangal is one of the district of Sylhet divisions is also known as the tea capital of Bangladesh is the main [...]
Monday February 23, 2009 23:41
Teknaf is situated in the extreme southern tip of Bangladesh at the border of Burma and on the bank of river Naaf in the district Cox’s Bazar. From the capital Dhaka it is 490 km and from the district head quarter Cox’s Bazar it is 85 km away. It was a very back ward place [...]
Tuesday February 10, 2009 10:24
In last summer holiday, I took a trip down to Cox’s Bazar with my family to have a break from Dhaka and to see and swim in the sea. Cox’s Bazar is the south-easterly district of Bangladesh, bordering district of Myanmar (Burma). The name ‘Cox’s Bazar’ comes from Captain Hiram Cox, a British, who founded [...]