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Dimla Upazila
Dimla ( bn, ডিমলা) is an upazila of Nilphamari District in the Rangpur Rangpur Division, Bangladesh. Geography Dimla is located at . It has 36, 440 households and a total area of 326.8 km2. It is bordered by West Bengal, India on the north and Jaldhaka Upazila on the south. Dimla Upazila is located in Nilphamari District. Upazila(s)/Thana(s) in Nilphamari are Dimla Upazila, Domar Upazila, Jaldhaka Upazila, Kishoreganj Upazila, Nilphamari Sadar Upazila, Saidpur Upazila. Demographics According to the 1991 Bangladesh census, Dimla had a population of 187,696. Males constituted 51.24% of the population, and females 48.76%. The population aged 18 or over was 91, 421. Dimla had an average literacy rate of 19.4% (7+ years), against the national average of 32.4%. Administration Dimla thana, now an upazila, was established in 1857. Dimla Upazila is divided into ten union parishads: Balapara, Dimla, Jhunagachh Chapani, Khalisha Chapani, Khogakharibari, Naotara, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimla Upazila
Dimla ( bn, ডিমলা) is an upazila of Nilphamari District in the Rangpur Rangpur Division, Bangladesh. Geography Dimla is located at . It has 36, 440 households and a total area of 326.8 km2. It is bordered by West Bengal, India on the north and Jaldhaka Upazila on the south. Dimla Upazila is located in Nilphamari District. Upazila(s)/Thana(s) in Nilphamari are Dimla Upazila, Domar Upazila, Jaldhaka Upazila, Kishoreganj Upazila, Nilphamari Sadar Upazila, Saidpur Upazila. Demographics According to the 1991 Bangladesh census, Dimla had a population of 187,696. Males constituted 51.24% of the population, and females 48.76%. The population aged 18 or over was 91, 421. Dimla had an average literacy rate of 19.4% (7+ years), against the national average of 32.4%. Administration Dimla thana, now an upazila, was established in 1857. Dimla Upazila is divided into ten union parishads: Balapara, Dimla, Jhunagachh Chapani, Khalisha Chapani, Khogakharibari, Naotara, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilphamari Sadar Upazila
Nilphamari Sadar ( bn, নীলফামারী সদর) is an upazila of Nilphamari District in the Division of Rangpur, Bangladesh. Geography Nilphamari Sadar is located at . It has 58266 households and total area 373.09 km2. Demographics As of the 2011 Bangladesh census, Nilphamari Sadar has a population of 427913. Males constitute 53.22% of the population, and females 46.78%. This Upazila's eighteen up population is 245644. Nilphamari Sadar has an average literacy rate of 65.0% (7+ years). It is the worst district of bangladesh Administration Nilphamari Sadar Upazila is divided into Nilphamari Municipality and 15 union parishads: Chaora Bargachaup, Chaprasarnjami, Charaikhola, Gorgram, Itakhola, Kachukata, Khoksabari, Kundapukur, Lakshmichap, Palasbari, Ramnagar, Songalsi, Sonaray, and Tupamari. The union parishads are subdivided into 109 mauzas and 108 villages. At present, Nilphamari Municipality has an area of 27.50 sqkm and is subdivided into 9 wards and 13 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh National Awami Party-Bangladesh NAP
The Bangladesh National Awami Party bn, বাংলাদেশ ন্যাশনাল আওয়ামী পার্টি-বাংলাদেশ ন্যাপ is a political party in Bangladesh. The party traces its origins to a splinter group of the National Awami Party (Bhashani) led by Mashiur Rahman, who was popularly known as Jadu Mia. Jadu Mia's NAP faction had merged with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in the late 1970s. Jadu Mia's son Shafiqul Ghani Swapan refounded the Bangladesh National Awami Party in December 2006. Shafiqul Ghani Swapan died in 2009, after which Jebel Rahman Ghaani took over as party chairman. Organization As of 2020, Jebel Rahman Ghaani served as party chairman and M. Golam Mostafa Bhuiyan as party general secretary. The party was registered with the Bangladesh Election Commission as 'Bangladesh National Awami Party-Bangladesh NAP' ( bn, বাংলাদেশ ন্যাশনাল আওয়ামী পার্টি-ব ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jebel Rahman Ghaani
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Jabal, Jabel, Jebel or Jibal may refer to: People * Jabal (name), a male Arabic given name * Jabal (Bible), mentioned in the Hebrew Bible Places In Arabic, ''jabal'' or ''jebel'' (spelling variants of the same word) means 'mountain'. * Dzhebel, a town in Bulgaria * Jabal Amman, part of Amman, Jordan * Jabel, a German municipality * Jabal, Amreli, a village in Gujarat, India * Jabal Rural District, in Iran * Jebel, Timiș, a commune in Timiș County, Romania * Jebel, Turkmenistan, a town * Jibal or al-Jabal, a late 1st-millennium-CE West-Asian realm Other uses * Djebel (1937–1958), a racehorse See also * * * * * * Jubal (other) Jubal may refer to: People * Jubal (Bible), named in the Book of Genesis as the father of musicians * Jubal (footballer) (born 1993), Brazilian footballer * Jubal Brown (born c. 1974), controversial video producer and multi-media artist * Jubal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shafiqul Ghani Swapan
Shawfikul Ghaani Swapan was a Bangladeshi politician and the former chairman of Bangladesh National Awami Party-Bangladesh NAP. During his political career, he served as a Member of Parliament twice, and held cabinet positions in both the Zia and Ershad Governments. His positions included serving as the State Minister of Defence, State Minister of Youth and Sports, Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism, and Minister of Housing and Public Works. Early life Swapan was born on the 11th of September, 1948 in Nilphamari Sadar, Nilphamari District. He was the eldest son of former Senior Minister Mashiur Rahman, also known as, Jadu Mia. He studied at Notre Dame College in Dhaka and later attended Queen Mary, University of London for his higher studies, going on to graduate in 1968. He was married to Nazhat Ghani Shabnam. Career In 1979, on the 10th of May, he won the by-election in Rangpur-1 (the current Nilphamari-1 constituency) as the candidate of the Bangladesh Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mashiur Rahman Jadu Mia
Mashiur Rahman (9 July 1924 12 March 1979), also known as Jadu Mia (Man of Magic), was a senior minister, with the rank and status of prime minister in charge of the Ministry of Railways, Roads and Highways of Bangladesh from 29 June 1978 to 12 March 1979. He was the founder of Bangladesh Jatyiotabadi Dal, the whole process of transition to multi-party democracy was his brainchild. He named the party and the election symbol was given to the party from his party NAP. He also made the formal Declaration of Independence of Bangladesh from his party NAP (there were two major political parties in the then East Pakistan, one National Awami Party, NAP and Awami League), on the 23 March 1971, when Sheikh Mujib was still negotiating for the premiership of Pakistan with the military junta of Pakistan, not giving the formal declaration despite people's determination for a free, independent country. Early life and education Rahman was born on 9 July 1924, in Rangpur, British India (now K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upazila Nirbahi Officer
An Upazila Nirbahi Officer ( Abbreviation: UNO; bn, উপজেলা নির্বাহী অফিসার) is the chief executive officer of an upazila (subdistrict) and a mid-level officer of the Bangladesh Civil Service (administration cadre), known as Bangladesh Administrative Service. A senior assistant secretary is usually assigned to this post. UNO works as chief executive officer of an upazila parishad for executing all decisions taken by the upazila parishad and ensuring financial disciplines of the funds of upazila parishad and representative of the government of Bangladesh in the upazila level for performing retained activities to the government of Bangladesh, non-transferred and controlling activities. History The role of the UNO was created in accordance with a decision by the military regime of Lieutenant General Hussain Muhammad Ershad. In 1982, the Ershad government constituted a committee for administrative reorganization and reform. One of the commit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Parishad
Union council ( bn, ইউনিয়ন পরিষদ, translit=iūniyan pariṣad, translit-std=IAST), also known as union parishad, rural council, rural union and simply union, is the smallest rural administrative and local government unit in Bangladesh. Each union council is made up of nine wards. Usually one village is designated as a ward. There are 4,562 unions in Bangladesh. A union council consists of a chairman and twelve members including three members exclusively reserved for women. Union councils are formed under the ''Local Government (Union Parishads) Act, 2009''. The boundary of each union council is demarcated by the Deputy Commissioner of the District. A union council is the body primarily responsible for agricultural, industrial and community development within the local limits of the union. History The term ''union'' dates back to the 1870 British legislation titled the ''Village Chowkidari Act'' which established union ''panchayats'' for collecting tax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Bangladesh Census
In 1991, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, conducted a national census in Bangladesh. They recorded data from all of the districts and upazilas and main cities in Bangladesh including statistical data on population size, households, sex and age distribution, marital status, economically active population, literacy and educational attainment, religion, number of children etc. According to the census, Hindus were 10.5 per cent of the population, down from 12.1 per cent as of 1981. Bangladesh have a population of 106,314,992 as per 1991 census report. Majority of 93,886,769 reported that they were Muslims, 11,184,337 reported as Hindus, 616,626 as Buddhists, 350,839 as Christians and 276,418 as others. See also * Demographics of Bangladesh * 2001 Bangladesh census * 2011 Bangladesh census References External links * Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics"Census Reports: Population Census-2001" 2001. The 1991 census figures can be seen compared to the 2001 census. Censuses in B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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