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Rampura Thana
Rampura Thana is an administrative unit of Dhaka.It is situated near bonosree. This is a very densely populated area. Markets, super shops, stores and pharmacies are near by within 200 meters of radius. Essential transportation as well as hospitals are also easily assessable. History In 1975, the headquarters of Bangladesh Television have been constructed in Rampura, and the network officially moved its offices and studios from the DIT Bhaban that year. It is the site of GSK Dhaka Half Marathon, sponsored by GSK pharmaceuticals and is a popular marathon in Bangladesh. Rampura KC is the local football club of Rampura and it plays in the Dhaka City Corporation Pioneer Football League. The club qualified for Third Division Football League after a good performance in the Pioneer League in 2008. Geography Rampura Thana has an area of 2.80 km2. It has two wards or unions, they are ward number 22 and 23. It has 17 Mahalla and Mouza. It is bordering Gulshan Thana and Badda Thana in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh Television
Bangladesh Television ( bn, বাংলাদেশ টেলিভিশন), commonly known by its acronym BTV ( bn, বিটিভি), is the state-owned television network of Bangladesh. The network was originally established as the East Pakistan branch of PTV in 1964. It is the oldest Bengali-language television network in the world, and is the sister to the radio broadcaster Bangladesh Betar, which, along with BTV, are both owned and operated by the government. Bangladesh Television is the country's only television network provided on terrestrial television. It is primarily financed through television licence fees. Although it has produced many award-winning programs, it has often been accused of being the mouth piece of the government and their lack of quality programming. Both the headquarters and the administrative building of Bangladesh Television are located at Rampura in Dhaka. Prior to the late 1990s, Bangladesh Television was the sole television broadcaster pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RAJUK Bhaban
RAJUK Bhaban ( bn, রাজউক ভবন) is the head office of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK), which is the Capital Development Authority of the Government of Bangladesh. RAJUK Bhaban is situated at RAJUK Avenue, Dilkhusha, Dhaka-1000. This is one of the most well known buildings of the Dhaka city. History RAJUK Bhaban was established in 1956 as the head office of Dhaka Improvement Trust (DIT). In that time, RAJUK Bhaban was called as DIT Bhaban. It was designed by architect, Abdulhusein M. Thariani, who was a diploma architect of West Pakistan. Foundation stone was laid on 10 December 1956 by H.E. H. S. Suhrawardy, who was the prime minister of Pakistan in that time. The DIT Bhaban was where the first transmissions of television in East Pakistan have been commenced and has since been the headquarters of the Dacca station of Pakistan Television Corporation, later renamed to Bangladesh Television, and has remained that way even after Bangladesh's independence in 1971 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GSK Pharma
GSK plc, formerly GlaxoSmithKline plc, is a British multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company with global headquarters in London, England. Established in 2000 by a merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham. GSK is the tenth largest pharmaceutical company and #294 on the 2022 ''Fortune'' Global 500, ranked behind other pharmaceutical companies China Resources, Sinopharm, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Roche, AbbVie, Novartis, Bayer, and Merck. The company has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. , it had a market capitalisation of £70 billion, the eighth largest on the London Stock Exchange. It has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange. The company developed the first malaria vaccine, RTS,S, which it said in 2014 it would make available for five percent above cost. Legacy products developed at GSK include several listed in the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, such as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khilgaon Thana
Khilgaon ( bn, খিলগাঁও) is a Thana of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is bounded by Rampura and Badda Thana on the north, Motijheel, Sabujbagh and Demra Thanas on the south, Rupganj Upazila on the east and Ramna thana on the west. Geography Khilgaon is located at . Its total area is 14.02 km2. Demographics Khilgaon has a population of 230,902. Males constitute 54.3% of the population, and females 45.7%. Average literacy rate of the thana is 57.5%; male being 61.52% and female 53.74%. Transportation Rickshaws, CNGs are always available. There are also some buses available which includes Midline, Bahon, Turag, Noor-E-Mekkah, Raida, Labbaik, Talukdar etc. These buses link between Khilgaon, Farmgate, Nilkhet, Motijheel, Dhanmondi, Mohammadpur, Badda, Gulshan, Mirpur, Moghbazar and many other places. Flyover Bridge Khilgaon Flyover is the second flyover constructed in Bangladesh. Image of Khilgaon Flyover: https://www.google.com/search ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motijheel Thana
Motijheel ( bn, মতিঝিল) is a ''thana'' (administrative division) of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is at the heart of the city (the General Post Office is considered the zero point of Dhaka). Motijheel is the major business and commercial hub of Dhaka city and has more offices and business institutions than any other part of the city. It is the home to largest number of corporate headquarters in the nation. Many news, magazines, print and other media publishers are based here. Motijheel is close to Dhaka Railway Station, Dhaka's main station. One of the highest skyscrapers of the megacity are in this area. It is the central business district. City Centre Bangladesh and Bangladesh Bank Building are in this area. The iconic land mark of Shapla in Shapla Square is the central point where all major roads to the place converge. Geography Motijheel Thana covers an area of . It is bounded by Khilgaon Thana to the north, Sutrapur and Kotwali Thanas to the south, Sabujbagh Thana to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramna Thana
Ramna Thana ( bn, রমনা থানা) is a police jurisdiction in central Dhaka. It is a historic colonial neighborhood. Once the site of Mughal gardens, it developed into an institutional area during British rule in the late 19th century. It became a focal point for Dhaka's modernization in the 1960s. It was the scene of many tumultuous events that ushered the independence of Bangladesh in 1971. The Ramna Thana falls under the jurisdiction of the Dhaka South City Corporation. The Ramna Thana area hosts the Ramna Park (also known as Ramna Green) which is the largest park in Dhaka, seen being akin to Calcutta's Maidan, London's Hyde Park and New York's Central Park. The Suhrawardy Udyan (formerly the Ramna Race Course Maidan) is the second largest park in Dhaka. The annual parades and concerts of the Bengali New Year take place in the Ramna Thana area. The Ramna Thana is also home of other important sites including the University of Dhaka, the Bangladesh Supreme Court ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tejgaon Thana
Tejgaon ( bn, তেজগাঁও) is a thana of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is in the centre of Dhaka, the capital. In 2006, the boundaries of the thana were redrawn when Tejgaon Industrial Area Thana was created out of the former larger area and again in 2009 when Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Thana was created. This is an important area of Dhaka city as the prime minister's office is here. It is bounded by Mohakhali to the north, Old Airport Road to the east and Moghbazar-Malibagh to the south and Dhanmondi to the west. It consists of several localities, including Tejgaon Industrial Area, Kawran Bazar, Nakhalpara, Shaheen Bag, Arjat para, East Raja Bazar, West Raja Bazar, Tejturi Bazar and Tejkunipara. Geography Tejgaon is at . The total area is . Demographics According to the 2011 Bangladesh census, Tejgaon Thana had 29,622 households and a population of 148,255, 100% of whom lived in urban areas. 6.3% of the population was under the age of 5. The l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhaka WASA
Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority () is a Bangladesh government agency under the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives responsible for water and sewage in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, and Narayanganj. Taqsem A. Khan is the managing director of Dhaka WASA since 2009. History Dhaka WASA was established in 1963 as an independent agency with the responsibility to supply water and sewage to Dhaka. It also became responsible of water and sewage Narayanganj in 1990. In 1996 it was made into an autonomous for-profit body with the passage of WASA Act. On 16 March 2019, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Estimate recommended that the government of Bangladesh split Dhaka WASA into two different bodies along North and South Dhaka. Criticism In a 201report ransparency International Bangladesh reported that Dhaka WASA had "Rampant graft" and provided "poor service". In four out of ten zones of WASA, it was supplying water contaminated with harmful ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Supply And Sewerage Authority
Water Supply and Sewerage Authority or WASA is the main body administering Water supply, Drainage and Sanitation system in Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos .... It was established in the year 1963 as an independent organization, under the East Pakistan ordinance XIX. At present WASA operates according to the WASA act 1996. WASAs in Bangladesh * Chattogram WASA * Dhaka WASA * Khulna WASA * Rajshahi WASA * Sylhet WASA References Water supply and sanitation in Bangladesh Government agencies of Bangladesh Organisations based in Dhaka Water management authorities in Bangladesh {{Bangladesh-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thanas Of Dhaka
Thanas is an Albanian and Ukrainian (''Танас'') given name and onomastic toponym element. The definite form is ''Thanasi''. It is derived from the Greek ''Athanasios'', with the Latin derived equivalent ''Tanush''. Thanas is also considered to be a saint by Albanian Christians, under the name ''Thanas''. As a given name People with the name ''Thanas'' are typically Albanian Christians, and include: * Thanas Floqi (1884-1945), Albanian educator and patriot * Thanas Kantili, founder of the Diturija Albanian society in Bucharest. Kongresi i Triestes, ja procesverbali i bisedimeve 1-4 mars 1913 (in Albanian) * Thanas Shkurti
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