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Ashoa is a small village in Kawkhali Upazila of Pirojpur District in Bangladesh. [1] The Gabkhan Channel starts from beside this village.
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Ashoa is a small village in Kawkhali Upazila of Pirojpur District in Bangladesh. [1] The Gabkhan Channel starts from beside this village.
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi is an Islamic speaker, lecturer, politician who served as a Member of the Parliament of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008. He was convicted for committing war crimes during and Bangladesh Liberation War, despite his denial. The International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh sentenced him to death in February 2013 for crimes against humanity in the war of 1971 in a disputed decision. His crimes included genocide, mass murder, rape and arson. The tribunal received support within Bangladesh, but was criticized by many international observers. In September 2014 the Supreme Court commuted his sentence to life imprisonment.
Pirojpur is a district (zilla) in southern-western Bangladesh. It is a part of Barisal Division.
Bagerhat District is a district in South-western Bangladesh. It is a part of the Khulna Division.
Ahsan Habib was a Bangladeshi poet and literary figure in Bengali culture. He was born in the village of Shankarpasha, in Pirojpur. Before the India-Pakistan partition, he worked on several literary magazines: Takbir, Bulbul (1937–38) and The Saogat (1939-43) and he was a staff artiste at the Kolkata Centre of All India Radio. After partition he came to Dhaka and worked on Daily Azad, Monthly Mohammadi, Daily Krishak, Daily Ittehad, Weekly Prabaha, etc.
Magura may refer to:
Kawkhali is an Upazila of Pirojpur District in the Division of Barisal, Bangladesh.
Mathbaria is an Upazila of Pirojpur District in the Division of Barisal, Bangladesh.
Pirojpur Sadar is an Upazila of Pirojpur District in the Division of Barisal, Bangladesh.
Nesarabad (Swarupkathi) is an Upazila of Pirojpur District in the Division of Barisal, Bangladesh. Nesarabad is famous for Sarsina Darbar Sharif. At present, guava gardens, floating market and backwaters of Nesarabad are turning into famous tourist attractions.
Pirojpur is a town in Pirojpur district in the division of Barisal in southern Bangladesh.. It is the administrative headquarter and the largest town of pirojpur district. The town covers an area of 29.50 square kilometres (11.39 sq mi) with a population of 78,057 as of the 2011 census.
Gabkhan Channel is a canal connecting Pirojpur District of Bangladesh with Jhalakati District. The canal was excavated during the British period in 1918 to connect the Sandha River of Pirojpur district and the Sugandha River of Jhalakati district with a view to reducing the distance on the Dhaka-Mongla and Chittagong-Mongla river routes by about 118 kilometres (73 mi).
Suryamani massacre took place on the early hours of 7 October 1971 in Suryamani village of the then Barisal district. The Razakars shot dead 24 Bengali Hindus.
Gopalpur or Gopālpur may reference several places in Bangladesh :
On 22 May 1971 local collaborators attacked the village of Nali in Barisal district of Bangladesh. The Bengali Hindu villagers resisted with spears and shields. However, they were soon overpowered by the collaborators, who shot dead 15 villagers.
Faizur Rahman Ahmed was a police officer and a freedom fighter of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. He was killed by Pakistani military personnel. He received the Independence Day Award from the Government of Bangladesh in 2017.
Ikri is a village in Ikri Union of Bhandaria Upazila, which is in the Pirojpur District of the Barisal Division of southwestern Bangladesh.
Pirojpur-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad of Bangladesh since 2019 by SM Rezaul Karim of the Awami League.
Pirojpur-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad of Bangladesh since 2014 by Anwar Hossain Manju of the Jatiya Party (Manju).
Pirojpur-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad of Bangladesh since 2014 by Rustum Ali Faraji, of the Jatiya Party (Ershad) since 2018.
Jannatul Ferdous Oishee is a Bangladeshi model, actor and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss World Bangladesh 2018. She represented Bangladesh at the Miss World 2018 in Sanya, China on December 8, 2018, and was placed in the top 30 among 118 contestants.
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