Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Golapi Shalik or Rosy Starling is one of the rarest migratory birds in Bangladesh, eight of which were recently sighted by Dr Reza Khan, a nature lover, on St Martin's Island also known as Narikel Jinjira.
He sighted the birds, also called Sturnus Roseus, on the south-eastern corner of the island during a bird watching tour.
Rosy Starlings had earlier been sighted just a few times by Bangladeshi birdwatchers.
Dr Khan first saw a flock of six starlings in Raha Boinna, a completely denuded old mangrove forest area that is now occupied by a tourist lodge, and in Moora, the ...
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Monday, September 4th, 2006
The bodies of the six Bangladeshi UN peacekeepers, who died in a road crash in Ivory Coast on August 25, will arrive in Dhaka this afternoon.
Upon arrival at Zia International Airport at 2:00pm, Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan will receive the bodies on behalf of the government with due state formalities.
The six met their tragic death just hours after their landing in Ivory Coast.
A truck carrying the soldiers crashed at Tiasali, some 125km off Ivory Coast capital Yamoussoukro, and veered into a roadside ditch at around 5:30pm local time (11:30pm Bangladesh time). Eleven others were also injured in this ...
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
Six UN peacekeepers from Bangladesh were killed and 11 others seriously injured in a road accident in Ivory Coast on Friday hours after they reached the West African state for duty.
A truck carrying the soldiers crashed at Tiasali, some 125km off Ivory Coast capital Yamoussoukro, and veered into a roadside ditch at around 5:30pm local time (11:30pm Bangladesh time), said the director of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).
The deceased are lance corporal SM Miraz Ahmed (20 Field Regiment, Artillery) hailing from village Kanudeshkathi in Rajapur upazila under Jhalakathi district, lance corporal M Abdus Sattar (6 Field Regiment, Artillery) hailing ...
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