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[name] => Bhadra
[post_id] => 3035
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[post_content] => Padma Residential Area and few more created by RDA are located here. It is one of the best places in the Rajshahi City. Elites of the city live in this area. The Home Economics College, Shahid Captain Monsur Ali Park are situated here. The only Liberation War Monument in Rajshahi is situated in Bhadra Roundabout.
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[post_id] => 4164
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Tamabil is on the border front of Sylhet-Shillong road, Tamabil is surrounded by beautiful nature. It is about 55 km away from Sylhet town. The sight of mountains while traveling through the zigzag streets is an attraction for the tourists. The tide flowing from the mountains is a treat to watch for the eyes.
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চমৎকার প্রাকৃতিক সৌন্দর্যে আচ্ছাদিত তামাবিল হল সিলেট-শিলং সড়কের বাংলাদেশ অংশে অবস্থিত সীমান্ত এলাকা। সিলেট থেকে ৫৫ কিলোমিটার দূরে অবস্থিত তামাবিলে যাবার সময় অন্যতম আকর্ষণ হল আঁকাবাঁকা বিশাল পাহাড় দেখতে পাওয়া। পাহাড়ের মধ্যে দিয়ে ঝর্নার প্রবাহ দেখে আপনার দৃষ্টি জুড়িয়ে যাবে তাতে কোনই সন্দেহ নেই।
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[name] => Belonia
[post_id] => 5625
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Belonia is marked as the zero point at the international border between India and Bangladesh at Baspadua in Belonia, south Tripura district. A barbed wire fence is being built. The area is called Uttar Ghutuma, in Feni district, Bangladesh. Cross-border movement is routine, marriages ignoring the geographical landscape defined by maps are quite common and friendships still hold true between the two people.
A BSF border post is located opposite the spacious Government home with its jackfruit, mango and coconut trees. BSF patrols were guarding the place with the Muhuri river and Muhuri char (wasteland) setting apart the two countries.
At one time, the wasteland fed by the Muhuri River grew vegetables and sugarcane but that is over. It is a sensitive spot with both countries claiming Muhuri Char.
Trains run between India and Bangladesh could help open markets and business options could wear out the habit of political dislike. It is confirmed by a morning visit to the Akhaura border with Bangladesh, a few minutes run down the Akhaura-Agartala road.
At about 7 a.m., tempos loaded with fish drive in to Akhaura from Bangladesh, deposit their wares and turn away. Business is brisk and loud with duty-free dry fish being sold at $2 per kg for the famed Hilsa and 60 cents per kg for small fish. All other items imported into India carry an import duty ranging between 15 per cent and 30 per cent.
Over the last 20 years, the Tripura Government has been pushing New Delhi to open up trade and rail lines with Bangladesh but talks have remained talks; a waste of breath and words. The lines of Marathi poetess Amita Kokate came to mind: "Like the texture/of the canvas/is our relation/though the weaves/Are tightly interlaced, crisscross/It hurts/our fingers."
The Jet Airways flight from Kolkata to Agartala is about 30 minutes as one flies over Bangladesh at a height of 25,000 ft.; that is the lone viable link as the alternative by road going round to Guwahati and then on to Agartala can take more than 20 hours. Most do not even try it out. Sometimes one felt the State has been abandoned by all.
At least for bankers the State and its majority farming community do not exist. In a chat, Dr G.S.G. Ayyangar, Secretary, Agriculture and Rural Development, Tripura Government, revealed the credit-deposit ratio was just 23 per cent. Banks were not lending and rural bank branches are rare in Tripura.
The Government has taken up the issue with the RBI and by now has become a dead Government document. Most farmers get some grants from the Center and the State with the rest brought in from outside sources. It is doubtful if the banking system has thought of routing funds to tribal practicing jhum in community-held land. Common rights on land, practiced over centuries, cannot easily be unwound. As for IT, there is little to show.
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[name] => Tongi Industrial Area
[post_id] => 3543
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[post_content] => Tongi Industrial Area, a township in Gazipur, Bangladesh, one of the nearby town of Savar, features a BSCIC industrial area, which produces BDT 1500 crore of industrial products annually and marks the northern border of Dhaka, most of the factory is located in Tongi area. It is one of the biggest Industrial areas in Northern Bangladesh.
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