Bangladesh Flooding Flooding is one of the main facts of Bangladesh. It is a country located in South Asia bounded by India in the north; Bay of Bengal in East and West while Myanmar surrounds it in the South. The country has practiced several flooding throughout the years. Between July – September 1998 Bangladesh has experienced one of its disastrous floods. Many people were affected by the flooding because they lost their belongings‚ made homeless and lost their homes. In the worst flooding
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When you first step foot in the capital city‚ Dhaka of Bangladesh‚ the first thing you will notice is the intense traffic jam. Dhaka is facing one of the major problems that is already being faced by other big cities in the world‚ more vehicle than the amount of the roads. Therefore‚ as a result‚ traffic jams are increasing day by day and it is becoming one of the most intolerable factors of the country. Since Bangladesh is a small country‚ the capital city is considered as one of the biggest
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Gender Roles in Bangladesh Bangladesh is a country in South Asia.Official Language is Bangla (also known as Bengali).Some of the facts of Bangladesh are listed below: Socially: Men greeting Men– A simple verbal greeting of “Salam Aleikum” tends to be most common. The appropriate response is “wa alaikum salam”.Handshakes are common as well‚ more so in business and formal settings. Handshakes tend to be on the light/limp side. Women greeting Women– A simple verbal greeting of “Salam Aleikum” tends to be most common
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Bangladesh-PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS Bangladesh Index Despite its poor-country status‚ increasing numbers of tourists have visited Bangladesh‚ a new but minor source of foreign exchange earning. Tourism in the early 1980s amounted to some 49‚000 visitors per year‚ but by 1986 more than 129‚000 tourists--mostly from India‚ the United States‚ Britain‚ and Japan--visited Bangladesh. According to the Bangladesh Parjaton Corporation (Bangladesh Tourism Corporation)‚ some Tk44.6 million in foreign exchange
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Background KFC Corporation Kentucky Fried Chicken was founded by Harland Sanders in Corbin‚ Kentucky. Harland Sanders was born on a small farm in Henryville‚ Indiana‚ America‚ in 1890. Sanders loved to cook and to invent a new recipe. One day he tested to mix eleven herbs and spices with wheat flour until he got success and he had a secret recipe for cooking chicken. Sanders opened the first facility with a 142-seat restaurant‚ a motel‚ a gas station. During the 1930s an image that would became
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Robert Browning - Biography Robert Browning was born on May 7‚ 1812‚ in Camberwell (a suburb of London)‚ the first child of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning. His mother was a fervent Evangelical and an accomplished pianist. Mr. Browning had angered his own father and forgone a fortune: the poet’s grandfather had sent his son to oversee a West Indies sugar plantation‚ but the young man had found the institution of slavery so abhorrent that he gave up his prospects and returned home‚ to become a clerk
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as distinguished from sedimentary rock. The hardrocks of Bangladesh are of four types: (i) Maddhyapara subsurface hardrock‚ (ii) Bholaganj-Jaflong hardrock concretions‚ (iii) Tetulia-Patgram-Panchagarh hardrock concretions‚ and (iv) Chittagong-Chittagong Hill Tracts sedimentary concretions. The items ii‚ iii and iv are usually considered as gravel deposits. Maddhyapara subsurface hardrock In 1974-75 the geological survey of bangladesh (GSB) drilled six wells in and around Maddhyapara and confirmed
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Tuesday‚ April 23‚ 2013 US Human Rights Report 2012: Bangladesh a Country of enforced disappearances and extra judicial killing! By Bangladesh Media; "I am proud to present the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for the first time as Secretary of State. When I served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee‚ my colleagues and I depended on these reports for an accurate assessment of human rights conditions around the world. I know how valuable they are .. " -Says US Secretary of State‚
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Wetland Resources in Bangladesh Saroar M. Mustafa Concept‚ Types and Status of Wetlands in Bangladesh: The Ramsar Convention (1971) has defined wetlands as - areas of marsh‚ fen‚ peat-land‚ or water‚ whether natural or artificial‚ permanent or temporary‚ with water that is static or flowing‚ fresh‚ brackish or salt‚ including areas of marine water the depth of which at low tide does not exceed six metres. The Ramsar definition of wetlands lumps together a wide range of contrasting habitats
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The Bangladesh Meteorological Department adopted a seismic zoning map in 1972. In 1977‚ the Government of Bangladesh constituted a Committee of Experts to examine the seismic problem and make appropriate recommendations. The Committee proposed a zoning map of Bangladesh in the same year. According to Bangladesh National Building Code (BNBC‚ 1993)‚ Bangladesh is divided into 3 earthquake zones (Figure- 6): Zone –1: the less risky zone. The Zone-1 comprising the southwestern part of Bangladesh (Jessore
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