Bangladesh sets clock one hour forward from Today.

The Daylight Saving Time (DST), first ever in Bangladesh, would start at 2300 hrs tomorrow. It means offices and businesses would open and close an hour earlier than usual. 

People would shift clocks forward by an hour and leave them that way until October. 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would release a first day cover tomorrow at 2245 hrs at her 'Jamuna' official residence to mark the occasion. 

The government estimates that 250 Mega Watts of power per day could be saved by having more daylight hours in the evening so that people avoid using electric lights.

Glorious past of Arakan

The next morning I was in the monastery. I got there, of course, on the trishaw, which a great many of Cox's Bazar, and indeed throughout Bangladesh. Before we go on foot pier, first through the Arakan, and then the Muslim Quarter. In the first Sando Bata respectful welcome, and secondly to my skinhead escort in dark orange toge relate quite indifferent. Buddhist monk was not such a rarity in the Cox's Bazar.

We were lucky. There was a deep shade. From the pier to the boat had to jump on board and bridges, spread through the black mud. The boat was fast and domchal us to the island in less than an hour. Remember the felucca, which taschila a thick rope to a huge shark. On the surface was visible only to its huge head. Along the perimeter of the island surrounded by tidal or mangrove thickets.

On the pier, we immediately went to a Buddhist monastery. This is where my conversation with the rector interrupted cry "Allahu Akbar". Was a creek just above my ear. The mosque is built into the wall with the wall of the monastery. In fact, according to Islamic law, the chapel should be built at a respectful distance from the shrines of other religions. In real life everything happens in a different way. On a small island had to get on the Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus.

Brozhu of Arakan village lnuschey to the monastery. In the shade of palm trees sheltering huts of bamboo and cane. In some yards powdered tanakhoy women simplest machines to weave cloth to sew from the capes and skirts. A dense material that goes to traditional bag over his shoulder. At their zherdochke weighs an entire collection. Multicolored floral torbochki look stain.

Know that the life of peasants in the Buddhist-Islamic environment not so easy. Their land they have little or none. Industry helps. Rohingya involved and the specific businesses such as samogonovarenie. The demand for alcohol among Muslims there. Rohingya - born fishermen. Under the canopy sits very colorful old. In ugolochke lips clamped thick cigar and the deft hand of cut fish. Neither give nor take - the wife of an old pirate. That is because the Bengalis called Rohingya "might" or "magh," which, according to some researchers, is a pirate. Indeed, over the centuries Arakan kingdom known for its powerful fleet that controlled the mouth of the Ganges. One can only imagine the armada of sailing ships, vyplyvayuschih because of the island. And the sails were usually black.

Many hodilo and free pirate sudenyshek. Their riotous team found a suitable partner: Portuguese seafarers, adventurers. Together, they lead to the horror of merchant ships. Not brezgovali and the slave trade. Slaves were sold to the Dutch trading post, which was littered with Koromondelskoe coast of India.

All this is now in the past as a prosperous kingdom of Arakan. But under his rule at that time was a large part of modern Bangladesh. In Arakan chronicles referred to the 12 Bengali principalities, conquered armies and fleets of Arakan kings. In general, in the historical annals mention 314 Arakan monarchs who ruled for five centuries. They belonged to and a major port of Chittagong, in Arakan "Saytagaun" that is interpreted in two ways: "warlord" or "fortress". Special significance to Arakan reached in the middle of XV century, when the King of Ba For MDP, and having an Islamic title - Kalima Shah. No, it was not a Muslim, and zealously practiced Buddhism. Just to enforce the King of Arakan have been and magometane. In addition, Ba Co MDP wanted to be on an equal footing with the Mogul. Over time, Arakan kingdom weakened. In 1666, it lost Chittagong, and in 1784 lost its independence at all. Rohingya same - Buddhists have long lived in these places, a result of Muslim rule. According to preliminary estimates, currently Rohingya in Bangladesh has more than 200 thousand. They live in India, in the states of Tripura and Mizoram. In Myanmar the same Arakane them about 2 million. All of them - Buddhists.

Bangladeshi Independence day today 1971

The War for Bangladeshi Independence, 1971

On March 25, the Pakistan Army launched a terror campaign calculated to intimidate the Bengalis into submission. Within hours a wholesale slaughter had commenced in Dhaka, with the heaviest attacks concentrated on the University of Dhaka and the Hindu area of the old town. Bangladeshis remember the date as a day of infamy and liberation. The Pakistan Army came with hit lists and systematically killed several hundred Bengalis. Mujib was captured and flown to West Pakistan for incarceration.

To conceal what they were doing, the Pakistan Army corralled the corps of foreign journalists at the International Hotel in Dhaka, seized their notes, and expelled them the next day. One reporter who escaped the censor net estimated that three battalions of troops--one armored, one artillery, and one infantry--had attacked the virtually defenseless city. Various informants, including missionaries and foreign journalists who clandestinely returned to East Pakistan during the war, estimated that by March 28 the loss of life reached 15,000. By the end of summer as many as 300,000 people were thought to have lost their lives. Anthony Mascarenhas in Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood estimates that during the entire nine-month liberation struggle more than 1 million Bengalis may have died at the hands of the Pakistan Army.

The West Pakistani press waged a vigorous but ultimately futile campaign to counteract newspaper and radio accounts of wholesale atrocities. One paper, the Morning News, even editorialized that the armed forces were saving East Pakistanis from eventual Hindu enslavement. The civil war was played down by the government-controlled press as a minor insurrection quickly being brought under control.

After the tragic events of March, India became vocal in its condemnation of Pakistan. An immense flood of East Pakistani refugees, between 8 and 10 million according to various estimates, fled across the border into the Indian state of West Bengal. In April an Indian parliamentary resolution demanded that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi supply aid to the rebels in East Pakistan. She complied but declined to recognize the provisional government of independent Bangladesh.

A propaganda war between Pakistan and India ensued in which Yahya threatened war against India if that country made an attempt to seize any part of Pakistan. Yahya also asserted that Pakistan could count on its American and Chinese friends. At the same time, Pakistan tried to ease the situation in the East Wing. Belatedly, it replaced Tikka, whose military tactics had caused such havoc and human loss of life, with the more restrained Lieutenant General A.A.K. Niazi. A moderate Bengali, Abdul Malik, was installed as the civilian governor of East Pakistan. These belated gestures of appeasement did not yield results or change world opinion.

On December 4, 1971, the Indian Army, far superior in numbers and equipment to that of Pakistan, executed a 3-pronged pincer movement on Dhaka launched from the Indian states of West Bengal, Assam, and Tripura, taking only 12 days to defeat the 90,000 Pakistani defenders. The Pakistan Army was weakened by having to operate so far away from its source of supply. The Indian Army, on the other hand, was aided by East Pakistan's Mukti Bahini (Liberation Force), the freedom fighters who managed to keep the Pakistan Army at bay in many areas

Dulahazara Safari Park(Near Cox`s Bazar)

Safari Park is the only Safari Park in Bangladesh. The nature of the forest is tropical evergreen and rich with Garjan, Boilam, Telsur and Chapalish along with herbs, shrubs and creepers.

Dulahazara Safari Park is a declared protected area where the animals are kept in fairly large area with natural environment and visitors can easily see the animal when ever they visit by bus, jeep, Ricksha or on foot. This park was established on the basis of South Asian model.
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Safari Park With the major goal of serving the national need of biodiversity conservation education, research, recreation and in-situ and ex-situ conservation of the threatened, extinct and endangered animals. The park was established in 1998 with following objectives :

Conservation and breeding of the extinct and endangered wild animal species. in the park as ex-situ condition.

Dulahazara Safari Park Development of rescue center and veterinary hospital to provide assistance to injured wildlife in the country.

Dulahazara Safari Park provide assistance for in-situ conservation of critically endangered wildlife through out the country.

Dulahazara Safari Park bring large water body for migratory birds under scientific management.

Dulahazara Safari Park Establishment of aviary for extinct, rare endangered species of bird.

Dulahazara Safari Park Development of the Nature Interpretation Center with light and sound model for creation of conservation awareness among the public.

Dulahazara Safari Park Establishment of a Natural History Museum for plants and animals endemic to the area.

Cox`s Bazar (Bangladesh)

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Cox Bazar - is the longest beach in the world, geographically located in Bangladesh, near the town of Cox Bazar and its length is over 120 kilometers. The wide sandy beach is located 152 km from Chittagong city, get to the city as air and by road from Dhaka - the capital of Bangladesh, and from the Chittagong Hill Tracts.

Cox Bazar - one of the most attractive places for tourists from all over the world. Warm water with sharks, beautiful sandy beaches, the sun - a paradise for beach tourism. And in the evening on the beach comes the presentation of light and shade - sun sunset and sunrise, probably the most beautiful in the world.

Sunrise on the beach about. St. Martin, Cox Bazar, Bangladesh, photo by Yeasin



Beach Labone (Laboni) - one of the most popular areas of Cox Bazar, in connection with the closest location to the city, the tourism infrastructure development. Around the 18 th km south of Cox Bazar located Himchari (Himchari), a place known for its beautiful waterfalls. A 35-ty kilometers located ashore İnan (Inani) - an ideal place for swimming.

Cox Bazar is not only the longest beach in the world, but also many natural and cultural attractions of Bangladesh.

Not far from Cox Bazar in 10 kilometers is a typical Buddhist village of Ramah (Ramu) known by various folk craft, monasteries with the image of Buddha in gold, bronze and other metals.

Moheshkhali Island (Moheskhali) is famous for its temple Adinat (Adinath). And on the island Sonadiya (Sonadia) you can see a large concentration of migratory birds: geese, ducks, petrels, lapwing and others. A 13 kilometers from the coast you can visit the only coral island in Bangladesh - the island of St. Martin. Tourists also frequently visit Teknaf (Teknaf), a place located near the river Naf (Naf) - the most extreme point of 120 km long coast Cox Bazar. Visit the district Rangmati (Rangamati) allows read Buddhist temples, the local tribal museum, the palace of the kings and Captan lake (Kaptai).

Bangladesh Recreation

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Bangladesh is located in southern Asia, north-eastern part of the Indian subcontinent. Borders with India and Myanmar in the waters of the Bay of Bengal.



The terrain is diverse and represented in the lowland alluvial plains, hills Chittagongskimi with a peak Modok-Mual and hills Madhpur. Vegetation is represented by building tree gardzhan, bamboo, sundri, black mangroves rizofory. Among the animals - monkeys, Bengal tiger, leopard, striped hyena, rodents, insects, Bengali neck, migratory birds, snakes, crocodiles, carp and labyrinth fish, shrimp.

In Bangladesh, there are primary and secondary, spiritual Muslim madrasah schools, 4 universities, higher and secondary special educational institutions: polytechnics, agricultural, medical, commercial. Develop the national culture, literature, painting. In the development of national painting the leading role belongs to the school an outstanding artist 3. Abidine and his followers
Dhaka -

The capital of Bangladesh on the north bank of the river raging Buriganda, major industrial and cultural center between the two main water transport terminals. Fort Lalbah invasion, more than 700 mosques in the famous Dalai Hussein. Bangladesh National Museum, the Tomb of Pari Bibi, Parliament House, the traditional bazaar. Approximately 300 thousand colorful rickshaw. The old Portuguese enclave Paterghatta. Mosque Shahi Jama-e-Masjid and Quad Mubarak ethnologic Museum, Fair Hill, "Fairy Hills" in the British town in the north-western sector of the city.
Chittagong:

Chittagong the second largest city in Bangladesh, in south-eastern part of the country on the coast of Bay of Bengal is a major seaport and commercial and industrial center on the north bank of the river Karnapuli and has an interesting old Sadarghat area along the coastline, which clearly shows the importance of river trade for the life of the city. In Chittagong Gorniy tropical evergreen forests, around 20 species of bamboo. "Chittagong Hills - wooded hills, gorges, cliffs, jungle, vyun, wild grapes. The four main river valleys Karnapuli, Feni, Zhang and Matamuhur.

Khulna and Rajshahi - a major transport hub, connecting the major rivers and marine communications. Research Museum Varendra mosques. Ruins Mainimati more than 50 scattered monuments of history and culture, basic - Salban Vihara, Kotila Mura and Charpatra Moore. Rangmati - splendid green countryside region, Captan lake, fishing villages, a unique type of diving - diving into the bush lotus hunting lake perch.
Cox Bazar :-

The only seaside resort and beach with a poorly developed infrastructure, recreation, clean sea without a shark, more secluded beach - beaches Himacheri and İnan.

Cen Martin :-

a small island, a tropical paradise with white sandy beaches, coconut palms. Sundarbans National Park - the largest mangrove forest in the world, about 400 royal Bengal tiger, the habitat of "sea gypsies", the whole family of fishermen use hand-trained otters.

Tourism infrastructure in Bangladesh, almost no development - due to distance from the tourist zones, military conflicts, constant cyclones and floods. Yet tourists have undiscovered and wild natural landscapes, historic monuments, monogoobrazie of cultures and traditions, archaeological sites, the longest beach and the largest mangrove coast in the world, mansions Maharaj and the abundance of ancient temples, lost in the jungle.

Flora. In Bangladesh

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Flora. In Bangladesh, dominated the cultural landscape. Natural vegetation is preserved in a few areas. For example, mangrove forests distributed in Sundarbane in the south-west of the country.



They dominated the tree sundri. In the mountains, Lushai and Chittagong grow moist tropical evergreen and monsoon forests to dump the leaves in the dry season. The forests extend such valuable species like teak and Salov trees. In nizkogoryah where practiced shifting cultivation, indigenous forest filled with bamboo jungle. In most parts of the country's forests has long been, and in their place is dominated by agricultural land.

Bangladeshi Soil

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Soils. To the east of the country at the foot of mountains on krutosklonnyh gruboschebnistyh sediments and the fine form kollyuvialnye soil. In the rest of Bangladesh extended range of alluvial soils. In the hills and Barind Madhupur on the ancient Pleistocene alluvium dominated lateritnye clay soil, the so-called red khyar that in the dry season severely compressed. In delta areas within the marine tidal salt spread heavy clay soil. From the Bay of Bengal to the band edge light sandy soil. In a relatively large depressions terrain dominated by soil heavy mechanical composition. Alluvial soils are sandy and supeschany of the river Brahmaputra, Meghny and Tisty and clay - in the basin of the Ganges.

Climate. Bangladesh

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Climate. Bangladesh characterized typical monsoon climate. Mild winters, dry and sunny. Average daily temperatures in January are in the range of 12 ° to 25 ° C. Summer is hot, rainy, and the average temperature of the hottest month - April 23-34 ° C. Average annual rainfall 2000-3000 mm. In the dry season, from November to February or March, the eastern parts of the country are usually less than 180 mm rainfall in the north-west of the rainfall is less than 75 mm. From April to May - the season «small rains», both of preparing for plowing farmers for early sowing of autumn rice ausa.



In this the hottest season of rain in eastern Bangladesh, more than 380 mm, mean minimum temperature of 21-26 ° C, maximum - 32 ° C. Actually rainy period lasts from June to October when the monsoon air flow from the encroaching Bay of Bengal and has more than 1270 mm. Thermal regime is very stable: the air, as a rule, not warming up above 31 ° C. Day may be significant cooling to 6 ° C. Precipitation associated with April and September-October, is crucial for agriculture. No April rain softens the ground, it is necessary to delay sowing of rice and the main market ausa culture - jute. «Small Rains» unstable in terms of the number brought by moisture, which affects the stability of agroproizvodstva. When the weak and delayed monsoon rains can be a serious winter rice crop failure Amon, who usually dominates the crops, and gives a higher yield than autumn rice and summer rice ADR Borough together. The coastal districts of Bangladesh, especially adjacent to the estuary Meghny severely suffer from tropical cyclones, leading to massive loss of life and serious material losses. For example, victims of high tide during the passage of one of these cyclones in November 1970 were several hundred people. Major damage caused by floods. Particularly severe flooding occurred in 1998, was flooded when a third of the country (which has also led to the outbreak of epidemics). Less damage to cause a storm with hail, it happens most often in March-April, and hurricanes.

Bangladesh

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Bangladesh, People's Republic of Bangladesh, the state in South Asia, formed by the former Pakistani province of East Pakistan. Its political leaders March 26, 1971 announced the creation of an independent state called Bangladesh, which means «Bengali people». The actual date of the December 16, 1971, when Pakistani troops surrendered to the joint command vostochnobengalskih and their support of Indian armed forces. The country is situated mostly in the delta plains of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra and the mountainous area at the junction with Myanmar and northeastern India. Bangladesh is bordered by India and on very short distances with Myanmar in the south is washed by the waters of the Bay of Bengal. Area 144 sq. km. The population of 125.7 million. Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. The capital and largest city - Dhaka.

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Cox's Bazar, Beach

BANGLADESH

Cox's Bazar is a major city and district in Bangladesh. It is also one of the world's longest natural sandy sea beaches (120 km) including mud flats.

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