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Cox's Bazar is a town, a fishing port and district headquarters in Bangladesh. It is known for its wide sandy beach which is the world's longest natural sandy sea beach.It is an unbroken 125 km sandy sea beach with a gentle slope. It is located 150 km south of Chittagong. Cox’s Bazar is also known by the name "Panowa", the literal translation of which means "yellow flower". Its other old name was "Palongkee". The modern Cox's Bazar derives its ...Read more
The Sundarbans (Bengali: সমুদ্রবন Shundorbôn) is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world.The name Sundarban can be literally translated as "beautiful jungle" or "beautiful forest" in the Bengali language (Sundar, "beautiful" and ban, "forest" or "jungle"). The name may have been derived from the Sundari trees that are found in Sundarbans in large numbers. Alternatively, it has been proposed that ...Read more
Sunrise at Kuakata
Sunset at Kuakata
Kuakata (Bangla: কুয়াকাটা) is a panaromic sea beach on the southernmost tip of Bangladesh. Located in the Patuakhali district, Kuakata has a wide sandy beach from where one can see both the sunrise and sunset. It is about 320 Kilometres south of Dhaka, the capital, and about 70 Kilometres from the district headquarters. The Kuakata beach is 30 km long and 6 km wide. On 13 September 2007 go...Read moreBanglar Faces
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Bengali: শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান Shekh Mujibur Rôhman) (March 17, 1920 – August 15, 1975) was a Bengali politician and the founding leader of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, generally considered in the country as the father of the Bangladeshi nation. He headed the Awami League, served as the first President of Bangladesh and later became its Prime Minister. He is popularly referred to as Shei...Read more
Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর, robindronath ţhakur)(7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941),sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. As author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse",[1] he was the first non-European to win the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, His poetry in translation was view...Read more
Kazi Nazrul Islam (Bengali: কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম Kazi Nozrul Islam) (25 May 1899–27 August 1976) was a Bengali poet, musician and revolutionary who pioneered poetic works espousing intense spiritual rebellion against fascism and oppression. His poetry and nationalist activism earned him the popular title of Bidrohi Kobi (Rebel Poet). Accomplishing a large body of acclaimed works through his life, Nazrul is officially rec...Read more
Roquia Sakhawat Hussain, Bangla: (বেগম রোকেয়া), (1880 – December 9, 1932) was a prolific writer and a social worker in undivided Bengal in the early 20th century. She is most famous for her efforts on behalf of gender equality and other social issues. She established the first school aimed primarily at Muslim girls, which still exists today. She was a notable Muslim feminist; modern feminist writers such as Taslima Nasrin...Read more
Hason Raja (Bangla: হাসন রাজা, literary meaning - Hason the King), also known as Devan Hason Raja or Hason Raja Chowdhury, was a Bengali (now - Bangladesh) poet, mystic and folk songwriter. He gained international recognition years after his death, when Nobel prize laureate, poet Rabindranath Tagore mentioned him in his lectures at Oxford University....Read more
Fakir Lalon Shah (Bangla: ফকির লালন সাঁই), also known as Lalon Shah (c. 1774–1890), was a Bengali philosopher poet. His poetry, articulated in songs, are considered classics of the Bangla language. Fakir Lalon Shah lived in the village of Cheuria in the area known as Nadia in the Bengal Presidency of British India, corresponding to the district of Kushtia in present-day Bangladesh....Read more
Country lost a sporting legend and freedom fighter when renowned swimmer Arun Nandi breathed his last in Kolkata yesterday, just ten days before what would have been his 67th birthday.
The champion long-distance swimmer, a bachelor, had been suffering from diabetes, kidney and various diseases and went to India for treatment. He died at his sister's residence in the morning.
Although the former Bangladesh Swimming Federation (BSF) vice-pres...Read more
Muhammad Yunus (Bengali: মুহাম্মদ ইউনুস, pronounced Muhammôd Iunus) (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit (small loans to poor people possessing no collateral) to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Prize for Peace. He previously was a professor of econom...Read more
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG (Bengali: ফজলে হাসান আবেদ) is a social worker with dual Bangladeshi/British nationality and the founder and chairman of BRAC (formerly, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee). For his outstanding contributions to social improvement, he has received the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the UNDP Mahbub Ul Haq Award and the inaugural Clinton Global Citizen Award. He was appointed Knight Commander of the Or...Read more
Shaikh Siraj is a popular television programme host in Bangladesh. He was the host of the popular program Mati O Manush aired on Bangladesh Television. He is also one of the founders of Channel I, a satellite based Bangla television channel.
Mati O Manush (Bangla: মাটি ও মানুষ) was a pioneering television programme in Bangladesh Television. Starting from the mid 1980s, it brought revolution to the agricultural sector of Bangl...Read more
Abdullah Abu Sayeed (Bangla: আবদুল্লাহ আবু সাইয়ীদ) is a writer, television presenter, organizer and activist from Bangladesh.
Born in 1939 in Calcutta, Sayeed was a professor of Bengali language in Dhaka College for many years. In mid 70's he started presenting Shaptabarna, a multidimensional TV programme in Bangladesh Television, which attained popularity specially among the young viewers. In 1975, he foun...Read more
Bangladesh's "Puppet Man"
Bangladeshi artist Mostafa Monawar, known as the 'puppet man'
Puppet shows are part of Bangladeshi folklore, but one man is trying to use the medium to spread social messages in a country that has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world.
Mustafa Monwar, known as the "puppet man", puts on shows using puppets made of wood, clay and cloth and also has a weekly children's television programme....Read more
Runa Laila (Bengali: রুনা লায়লা (born 17 November 1952) is a playback singer of the subcontinent who lives in Bangladesh. She is effective in Ghazals also. She made a hit pair with famous singer Ahmed Rushdi after replacing Mala. She also has done numerous playbacks for movies in Bangladesh, India and Pakistani film industries during late 60s,70s and early 80's. Her best known number is Dama Dam Mast Qalandar, a song covered ...Read more
Sabina Yasmin (Born 1953)(সাবিনা ইয়াসমীন) is a popular singer of Bangladeshi origin. She is renowned in Bangladesh for her patriotic songs as well as her playback singing in Bangladeshi cinema. She achieved many awards for her music in Bangladesh and has become an iconic figure in Bagnaldeshi music world....Read more
Shah Abdul Karim (February 15, 1916 - September 12, 2009; Bengali: শাহ আবদুল করিম), was one of the most famous legends of Bangladeshi folk music. He specialized in Bengali Baul music. Born and brought up in the village of Ujan Dhol, in Derai Upazila(Thana) of Sunamganj, he lived there until his death. He was awarded the Ekushey Padok in the year 2001 for his outstanding musical achievements. His contribution reflected by t...Read more
Hanif Sanket (Bengali: হানিফ সংকেত) (full name: A K M Hanif) is a popular Bangladeshi comedian, entertainer and presenter.
Sanket was born in 1957 in Barisal District. He first gained prominence in the early 1980s when he performed comic skits on Fazle Lohani's variety show Jodi Kichhu Mone Na Koren (If You Don't Mind). Since then, he has become a household name in Bangladesh, and is arguably the nation's favorite entertainer...Read more
Nayeemul Islam Khan (Bengali: নাঈমুল ইসলাম খান ) is an eminent media person of Bangladesh and the editor of the daily Amader Shomoy, which has been published in Dhaka since 2007. He also published a weekly, Khoborer Kagoj, in which Mymensingh poet and gynaecologist Taslima Nasreen wrote a weekly column which helped her become a popular figure. Nayeemul started receiving more media attention in 2007 when he started to p...Read more
Azam Khan (Bangla: আজম খান) (full name Mahbubul Haque Khan, born February 28, 1950) is a Bangladeshi pop singer. He was the pioneer in Bengali pop music launching and founded a band called "Uchcharon" with a literal meaning of "Enunciation" in the early 1970s.[1] He is honored as Guru of Pop Music in Bangladesh....Read more
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Musa Ibrahim (Bengali: মুসা ইব্রাহীম) is a Bangladeshi mountaineer and a journalist by profession. He is the first Bangladeshi to reach the summit of Mount Everest. According to Musa, he reached the summit around 6:00am BST on May 23, 2010. Arranger of the expedition Iswari Paudel and Musa Ibrahim's wife confirmed the news at first hand.The Sun reported that a Scottish climber Stephen Green found Ibrahim unconscious severa...Read more
Shakib Al Hasan, also known as Faisal, (Bengali: সাকিব আল হাসান) (born 24 March 1987 in Magura) is a Bangladeshi international cricketer. He is a left-handed middle order batsman and slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He emerged from Bangladesh's only educational sports institution. He made his One Day International debut against Zimbabwe in August 2006. He was awarded as The Wisden Cricketer magazine's Test Cricketer of the Y...Read moreParticipators
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