Tuesday, November 30, 2010

cox's bazar

Cox's Bazar

Location of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh
Country     Bangladesh
Administrative District       Cox's Bazar District
Area

Population (2007 est.)Total population represents population in city and metro represents entire district.[1]
 - City     51,918
 - Density 7,579.27/km2 (19,630.2/sq mi)
 - Metro    120,480
Time zone   BST (UTC+6)

Cox's Bazar is a town, a fishing port and district headquarters in Bangladesh. It is known for its wide sandy beach which is the world's longest natural sandy sea beach.[2][3][4] It is an unbroken 125 km sandy sea beach with a gentle slope. It is located 150 km south of Chittagong. Cox’s Bazar is also known by the name "Panowa", the literal translation of which means "yellow flower". Its other old name was "Palongkee". The modern Cox's Bazar derives its name from Captain Cox (died 1799), an officer serving in British India. In the 18th century, an officer of British East India Company, Captain Hiram Cox was appointed as the Superintendent of Palongkee outpost after Warren Hastings became the Governor of Bengal. Captain Cox was specially mobilised to deal with a century long conflict between Arakan refugees and local Rakhains. The Captain was a compassionate soul and the plight of the people touched his heart. He embarked upon the mammoth task of rehabilitating refugees in the area, and made significant progress. A premature death took Captain Cox in 1799 before he could finish his work. But the work he had done earned him a place in the hearts of the locals and to commemorate his role in rehabilitation work a market was established and named after him as Cox's Bazaar ("Cox's Market"). Although Cox's Bazar is one of the most visited tourist destinations in Bangladesh, it has yet to become a major international tourist destination, due to lack of publicity.

The history of cox’s bazaar 
  
Located along the Bay of Bengal in South Eastern Bangladesh, Cox's Bazar Town is a small port and health resort. But it is mostly famous for its long natural sandy beach. The municipality covers an area of 6.85 km² with 27 mahallas and 9 wards and has a population of 51,918.[1] Cox's Bazar is connected by road and air with Chittagong

The greater Chittagong area including Cox's Bazar was under the rule of Arakan Kings from the early 9th century till its conquest by the Mughals in 1666 AD.[6] When the Mughal Prince Shah Shuja was passing through the hilly terrain of the present day Cox’s Bazar on his way to Arakan, he was attracted to the scenic and captivating beauty of the place. He commanded his forces to camp there. His retinue of one thousand palanquins stopped there for some time. A place named Dulahazara, meaning "one thousand palanquins", still exists in the area. After the Mughals, the place came under the control of the Tipras and the Arakanese, followed by the Portuguese and then the British.

The name Cox's Bazar/Bazaar originated from the name of a British East India Company officer, Captain Hiram Cox who was appointed as the Superintendent of Palonki (today's Cox's Bazar) outpost after Warren Hastings became the Governor of Bengal following the British East India Company Act in 1773. Captain Cox was especially mobilised to deal with a century long conflict between Arakan refugees & local Rakhains at Palonki. The Captain made significant progress in rehabilitation of refugees in the area, but had died (in 1799) before he could finish his work. To commemorate his role in rehabilitation work a market / bazaar was established and was named after him as Cox's Bazaar (market of Cox). Cox's Bazar thana was first established in 1854 and a municipality was constituted in 1869.

After the Sepoy Mutiny (Indian Rebellion of 1857) in 1857, the British East India Company was highly criticised & questioned on humanitarian grounds, specially for its Opium trade monopoly over the Indian Sub-Continent. However, after its dissolution on 1 January 1874, all of the company's assets including its Armed Forces were acquired by the British Crown. After this historic take over, Cox's Bazar was declared a district of the Bengal Province under the British Crown.
Cox's Bazar Map from Series U542, U.S. Army Map Service, 1955

After the end of British rule in 1947, Cox's Bazar remained as a part of East Pakistan. Captain Advocate Fazlul Karim, the first Chairman (after independence from the British) of Cox's Bazar Municipality established the Tamarisk Forest along the beach to draw tourist attention in this town and also to protect the beach from tidal waves. He also donated many of his father in law’s and his own lands for establishing a Public Library and a Town Hall for the town. He was inspired to build Cox's Bazar as a tourist spot after seeing beaches of Bombay and Karachi, and one of the pioneers in developing Cox's Bazar as such. He founded a Maternity Hospital, the Stadium and the drainage system by procuring grants from the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation through correspondence. Mr. T. H. Matthews, the principal of the Dacca Engineering College (1949~1954) was his friend who had helped him in doing this. Engineer Chandi Charan Das was the government civil engineer who had worked on all these projects. In 1959 the municipality was turned into a town committee.[6] In 1961 the erstwhile Geological Survey of Pakistan initiated investigation of radioactive minerals like monazite around the cox's bazar sea-beach area and a number of precious heavy minerals were identified the same year.[7]
Cox's Bazar Bus Terminal

In 1971, Cox's bazar wharf was used as a naval port by the Pakistan Navy's gunboats. This and the nearby airstrip of the Pakistan Air Force were the scene of intense shelling by the Indian Navy during Bangladesh Liberation War. During the war, Pakistani soldiers killed many people in the town including eminent lawyer Jnanendralal Chowdhury. The killing of two freedom fighters named Farhad and Subhash at Badar Mokam area is also recorded in history.

After the independence of Bangladesh Cox's Bazar started to get the administrative attention. In 1972 the town committee of Cox's Bazar was again turned into a municipality. In 1975, The Government of Bangladesh established a pilot plant at Kalatali, Cox's Bazar to assess the commercial viability of the heavy mineral content in the placer deposits of the area with the cooperation of the Australian Government.[7] Later, in 1984 Cox's Bazar subdivision was promoted to a district and 5 years later (in 1989) the Cox's Bazar municipality was elevated to B-grade.[6] In 1994 (jobs) the Marine Fisheries and Technology Station (MFTS) was established at Cox's Bazar. MFTS is a research station of Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI) headquartered in Mymensingh. The station covers a land area of 4 hactor and is equipped with 5 specialised laboratories, and one indoor and one outdoor cistern complex.[9] In April 2007 Bangladesh got connected to the submarine cable network as a member of the SEA-ME-WE-4 Consortium, as Cox's Bazar was selected as the landing station of the submarine cable.
Geography and climate

Panorama of Cox's Bazar in the early morning: clouds on a blue sky, still water and forest in the distance.

Cox's Bazar town with an area of 6.85 km², is located at 21°35'0?N 92°01'0?E? / ?21.583333°N 92.016667°E? / 21.583333; 92.016667 and bounded by Bakkhali River on the north and East, Bay of Bengal in the West, and Jhilwanj Union in the south.

The climate of Bangladesh is mostly determined by its location in the tropical monsoon region: high temperature, heavy rainfall, often excessive humidity, and distinct seasonal variations. The reversal of the wind circulation between summer and winter is another important feature of the climate of the country.[11] The climate of Cox's bazar is mostly similar to the rest of the country. It is further characterised by the location in the coastal area. The annual average temperature in Cox's Bazar remains at about a maximum of 34.8 °C and a minimum of 16.1 °C. The average amount of rainfall remains at 4,285 mm.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

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Match
Date
Teams
Venue
1
19feb
India vs Bangladesh

Dhaka
2
20feb
New Zealand vs Kenya

Chennai
3
20feb
Sri Lanka vs Canada
Hambantota
4
21feb
Australia vs Zimbabwe

Ahmedabad
5
22feb
England vs Netherlands
Nagpur
6
23feb
Pakistan vs Kenya

Hambantota
7
24feb
South Africa vs West Indies
New Delhi

8
25feb
Australia vs New Zealand

Nagpur

9
25feb
Bangladesh vs Ireland

Dhaka
10
26feb
Sri Lanka vs Pakistan

Colombo

11
27feb
India vs England

Kolkata

12
28feb
West Indies vs Netherlands
New Delhi

13
28feb
Zimbabwe vs Canada

Nagpur


14
1 Mar
Sri Lanka vs Kenya

Colombo

15
2 Mar
England vs Ireland
Bangalore
16
3 Mar
South Africa vs Netherlands
Mohali

17
3 Mar
Pakistan vs Canada

Colombo

18
4 Mar
New Zealand vs Zimbabwe

Ahmedabad

19
4 Mar
Bangladesh vs West Indies

Dhaka

20
5 Mar
Sri Lanka vs Australia

Colombo

21
6 Mar
India vs Ireland

Bangalore



22
6 Mar
England vs South Africa

Chennai

23
7 Mar
Kenya vs Canada

New Delhi



24
8 Mar
Pakistan vs New Zealand

Pallekelle

25
9 Mar
India vs Netherlands
New Delhi

26
10 Mar
Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe
Pallekelle
27
11 Mar
West Indies vs Ireland

Mohali

28
11 Mar
Bangladesh vs England


Chittagong

29
12 Mar
India vs South Africa

Nagpur

30
13 Mar
New Zealand vs Canada
Mumbai



31
13 Mar
Australia vs Kenya

Bangalore

32
14 Mar
Pakistan vs Zimbabwe

Pallekelle



33
14 Mar
Bangladesh vs Netherlands

Chittagong



34
15 Mar
South Africa vs Ireland

Kolkata

35
16 Mar
Australia vs Canada

Bangalore


36
17 Mar
England vs West Indies
Chennai

37
18 Mar
Sri Lanka vs New Zealand

and
Mumbai

38
18 Mar
Ireland vs Netherlands

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Kolkata


39
19 Mar
Australia vs Pakistan

Colombo

40
19 Mar
Bangladesh vs South Africa
Dhaka


41
20 Mar
Zimbabwe vs Kenya

Kolkata

42
20 Mar
India vs West Indies

Chennai


43
23 Mar
First Quarterfinal
Dhaka

44
24 Mar
Second Quarterfinal

Colombo



45
25 Mar
Third Quarterfinal



Dhaka

46
26 Mar
Fourth Quarterfinal

Ahmedabad

47
29 Mar
First Semifinal
Colombo

48
30 Mar
Second Semifinal

Mohali

49
02 Apr
FINAL

Mumbai


     


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