Portal:Bengal/Bangladesh/Did you know

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... 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 a fire that broke out a few days before Hiralal Sen died destroyed all his films including India's first political film?
... that the Bara Katra palace in Dhaka, now dilapidated and half-destroyed, was built originally to be the residence of Mughal prince Shah Shuja?
...that the Bangladesh Nazrul Sena, founded upon the philosophy of Kazi Nazrul Islam, pioneered the introduction of computer science and multimedia education for children at the kindergarten level in Bangladesh?
... that Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh was also known as Jahangir Nagar?
... that 17th-century Mughal subahdar Shaista Khan conquered Chittagong and ousted the British East India Company from Bengal over a trade dispute?
...that the Bangabhaban has served as the official residence for the Viceroy of India, Governor of East Pakistan and the President of Bangladesh?
... that the government in exile at Mujibnagar proclaimed Bangladesh's independence and coordinated the Mukti Bahini during the liberation war?
... that Rajshahi College is the first institution in Bangladesh offering Masters degree?
... that the largely unexplored Buddhist archaeological site of Noapara-Ishanchandranagar in Bangladesh is conjectured to be the lost city of Karmanta Vasaka?
...that the assassins of former Bangladeshi prime minister Mansur Ali were protected by the Indemnity Act and not arrested or tried for more than 20 years?
...that the Armenian community of Dhaka played a major role in education in Bangladesh, and owned major landmarks like the gardens of Shahbag and Bangabhaban?
...that Mukh O Mukhosh (The face and the mask), directed by Abdul Jabbar Khan, is the first full-length Bengali language feature film to be produced in the erstwhile East Pakistan, which later became Bangladesh?
...that Hakim Habibur Rahman, a Unani physician, collected all the Arabic, Persian and Urdu books written in Bengal for more than 40 years and published a catalog titled Sulasa Ghusala?
...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?

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