Portal:Bangladesh/DYK/Archive

This is a selection of articles on Wikipedia that appeared on the India Portal's Did you know section.

[edit] Did you know...

...that notated Bengali writer Rajnarayan Basu was a tutor of Asia's first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore?
... that the Sannyasi Rebellion was a series of clashes between indian ascetics and the British East India Company during the eighteenth century in Bengal?
...that Asif Hossain Khan, a Commonwealth Games gold medal winner for Bangladesh at the age of just 15, was brutally beaten and seriously injured by the police of his own country?
...that Matir Moina, a Bangladeshi film by Tareque Masud, was temporarily banned by censors in Bangladesh before becoming the country's first film to compete for the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category?
... that Bangladesh is separated from Nepal by the Chicken's Neck?
... that Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries in the world?
... that the University of Dhaka is the oldest and largest public university in Bangladesh?
... that Bangladesh is home to the magnificent Royal Bengal Tiger?