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Dhakeshwari National Temple ( Bengali: ঢাকেশ্বরী রাষ্ট্রীয় মন্দির, romanized : Ðhakeshshori Rashtriyo Mondir) is a Hindu temple in Old Dhaka (inhabited since 7th century, 600 A.D.), Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is state-owned, giving it the distinction of being Bangladesh 's 'National Temple'. The ...
The Shaheed Minar ( Bengali: শহীদ মিনার romanised :- Shohid Minar lit. " The Martyr Tower") is a national monument in Dhaka, Bangladesh, established to commemorate those killed during the Bengali Language Movement demonstrations of 1952 in then East Pakistan . On 21 and 22 February 1952, students from Dhaka University and ...
National Martyrs' Memorial. The National Martyrs' Memorial ( Bengali: জাতীয় স্মৃতিসৌধ, romanized :Jatiyo Sriti Shoudho) is a national monument in Bangladesh. It was built to honour and remember those who died during the Bangladesh Liberation War (as well as the genocide) in 1971, which resulted in Bangladesh's ...
1970 Bhola cyclone. The 1970 Bhola cyclone (also known as the Great Cyclone of 1970 [1]) was a devastating tropical cyclone that struck East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) and India's West Bengal on November 12, 1970. [2] It remains the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded and one of the world's deadliest humanitarian disasters.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman [c] (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), popularly known by the honorific prefix Bangabandhu [d] ( lit. 'Friend of Bengal ' ), was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist and diarist. As a politician, Mujib had held continuous positions either as Bangladesh's president or as its prime minister from ...
Television is one of the most popular forms of media and information in Bangladesh. [1] It was one of the first countries in South Asia to introduce television on 25 December 1964, in the then East Pakistan under the state-owned television network Pakistan Television Corporation in its capital, Dhaka. After the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 ...
Chittagong District. (There are a lots of temples in Chittagong but very few temples are listed here.) Chatteshwari Temple. Ramakrishna Mission. ISKCON Shree Radha Madhava Temple. Kaibalyadham Ashram. Anukulchandra Satsang Ashram. Tulsi Dham Ashram. Panchanan Dham Ashram.
The Dhaka Elevated Expressway ( Bengali: ঢাকা উড়াল মহাসড়ক) is an all-elevated toll road in Bangladesh. The 19.73-kilometre (12.26 mi) road, regarded as the country's first elevated expressway, partially opened in 2023. It connects the Dhaka airport with Farmgate area in Tejgaon, with construction ongoing to ...