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• Dhaka New Market - A unique shopping complex with a long history |
| Dhaka New Market, a unique shopping complex of the city with a long history, is located at Azimpur, with Mirpur Road on one side and Peelkhana Road on the other. New Market area is triangular in shape with three high arched entry gates on its south, east |
• Ahsan Manzil : most significant architectural monuments |
| Ahsan Manzil is one of the most significant architectural monuments of Dhaka situated on the bank of the river Buriganga. It has been turned into a museum in 1992 yet it was the residential palace and the kachari of the nawabs of Dhaka . The construction |
• Pahela Baishakh : Festive Start of Bangla New Year |
| Pahela Baishakh is the first day of the Bangla year. Pahela Baishakh is celebrated in a festive manner in both Bangladesh and West Bengal . In Bangladesh Pahela Baishakh is a national holiday. Pahela Baisakh falls on April 14.
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• Bangladesh Folk Arts and Crafts Museum |
| Bangladesh Folk Arts and Crafts Museum of Sonargaon is a mini replica of the country. The main objective of this unique organisation is to preserve and display the traditional art and cultural heritage of the nation. This Museum began its journey at Sonar |
• International MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY |
| languages in the world. The event began being observed from 21 February 2000 throughout the world to commemorate the martyrs who sacrificed their lives on this day in Dhaka in 1952.
• Winter in Bangladesh
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In Bangladesh winter days are not wintry days. Winter in Bangladesh is pleasant, eagerly awaited and planned for. The autumn season passes off almost unnoticed in this country. But if nature had shortchanged us in one way, she has comp |
• Professor Muhammad Yunus - Living Bangladeshi Legend |
| Beyond independence in 1971 and restoration of democracy in 1991, Bangladesh witnessed the biggest achievement as Professor Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank were declared the Nobel Peace Prize 2006 on October 13 for pioneering the use of micro-credit t |
• Selling flowers in Dhaka |
| Selling flowers by adolescent boys & girls is a common scenario of Dhaka City . Almost everybody may have experienced this stacking in traffic jam. This shows the love of flowers and fragrance as well as a livelihood of some poor family. Indeed Flower |
• Swarighat: Key wholesale fish market of Dhaka |
| Swarighat, is a key wholesale fish market on the north bank of the Dhaka's main river Buriganga. It is one of the oldest markets established in the middle of nineteenth century. This is a unique wholesale fish market operates for only a few hours in the e |
• THE RACE COURSE MAIDAN OF DHAKA that once was |
| The Ramna Race Course Maidan was an extravaganza of green, comprising hundreds of acres. In this vast greenery, there stood another great landmark of the then Dacca, almost at its centre, there was the Ramna Kalibari, with its majestic spire towering over |
• BAHADUR SHAH PARK - A time honoured place in Dhaka |
| Bahadur Shah Park, also known as Victoria Park, since the first half of the 19th century, was erected at the initiative of Nawab Abdul Ghani, in the Sadar Ghat area, on the ruins of an old building, called Antaghar, a club house of the Armenians, then liv |
• Iftar Delicacies of Dhaka |
| The holy month of Ramazan is back again in the Muslim world. Bangladesh with its large Muslim population observes Ramazan with great piety and fervour. The daylong fasting ends at sunset and the faithful break their fasting with the delicacies of IFTARI. |
• The Season of Fruits in Bangladesh |
Bangladesh enjoys generally a sub-tropical monsoon climate. There are three distinct seasons. From November to February a cool temperature (12-28 °C) and little or no precipitation prevails. Summer continues from March to May with a |
• Pahela Baishak - The First Day of Bengali New Year |
| Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bangali year is celebrated in a festive manner in both Bangladesh and West Bengal . In Bangladesh Pahela Baishakh is a national holiday, which falls on April 14 or 15.
• Salimullah Muslim Hall – Eighty Five Years of History
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| Muslim population of British India, especially those who lived in the Eastern part of Bengal, were greatly deprived of the advantage of the facilities given by British Government during the Nineteenth and early twentieth century. With the Partition of Ben |
• Marriage ceremony @ Bangladesh |
| Marriages are held all over the year in Bangladesh, but winter is most acceptable season. Because the season is very comfortable and rural communication is very easy and non-hazardous.
Muslim marriage, in its truest form, is |
• Seven Icons of History at Dhaka |
| Bangladesh was liberated in 16 December 1971 , after a decisive nine months of War of Liberation against the oppressive rule of the then Pakistani Military Rulers. Therefore, December is the month of Bijoy (Liberation). Many statues and sculptures were bu |
• Museums and Cultural Centres at Dhaka |
| This is July – the month of Rain. Its beautiful to see the rain fall in different style all the day long. Some times it is torrential, some times it drizzles. It is better to visit places where you can stay indoors and see interesting cultural and archaeo |
• Lalbagh Fort: A Mughal archaeological relic at Dhaka |
| Lalbagh Fort or Fort Aurangabad, is an incomplete Mughal palace fortress at Dhaka on the river Buriganga in the southwestern part of the old city. The river has now gone further south and flows at quite a distance from the fort. Though in eighteenth centu |
• Baldah Garden : A lonely sanctuary at Dhaka |
| When you are in Dhaka, you may get exhausted and bored looking at the rising structures on all sides you cast your eyes. Take only an hour's retreat before or after launch and take a taxi and tell him to take you to Baldah Garden.
• Let's go boating @ Dhaka
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| For those who come to Dhaka and also the Dhakaites, boating has now become a recreational activity because when one is on water one can at least fantasise that s/he is not confined within this urban mess. There are very few boating destinations in the cit |
• Cane Furniture - Outstandingly Bangladeshi |
| Canes, known locally as ‘bet', are mostly trailing or climbing palms with characteristic scaly fruits of the Arecaceae family (Palmae). The fruits are covered by vertical rows of reflexed overlapping scales. The scales are grooved along the midline. Cane |
• Eateries at Dhaka – Outstandingly Bangladeshi |
| There's a philosophical saying, 'we eat to live or we live to eat!' Those who think they eat to live do not sniffle much about what they eat and take only that much of food which keeps their body and soul to work together. To those, taste and variety is n |
• Festivals of Bangladesh |
| Festivals have always played a significant role in the life of the people of Bangladesh.Those are parts and parcels of Bangalee culture and tradition. These festivals include traditional, cultural, religious and political. It is said that Bangladesh have |
• Resting places at Dhaka |
When you are in Dhaka you generally pass your busy hours in mee |
• Shopping at Dhaka |
A city is best known by its shopping centres and markets. Dhaka has gradually turned into a modern mega ci |
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