In a celebration of International Open Access Week, Wikimedia Bangladesh recently hosted an editathon on Bangla Wikipedia. This event, aligned with the global celebration of International Open Access Week, occurring annually during the last full week of October, focuses on the culture of accessibility to information.
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Game On is the ultimate gaming destination for gamers in Bangladesh, a veritable haven for those seeking the finest in the gaming world. Game On is a beacon of trust and dedication at the core of Bangladesh’s gaming community. It transcends the mere realm of an online game store; it is your local, groundbreaking marketplace
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On the celebrated occasion of International Museum Day, Wikimedia Bangladesh organized an International Museum Day Datathon, where volunteers from Bangladesh and India contributed data and enhanced the Wikidata items related to museums in Bangladesh. This event brought together enthusiastic volunteers from Bangladesh and India who shared a common objective: to enrich the Wikidata entries that pertain to various
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Salaam Bombay! – a gritty tale of life in Mumbai is a cinematic masterpiece. It takes viewers on a compelling journey through the gritty streets of Bombay (now Mumbai) and into the lives of the city’s most vulnerable inhabitants. Released in 1988 directed by Mira Nair, this film remains a timeless classic that leaves an
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Here are some of the most exemplary and must-watch Bangladeshi films that were ahead of their time and continue to stand the test of time. From its inception, with some cult classic films, Bangladeshi cinema has also been cited as a mirror to the stark reality of the world. Chitra Nodir Pare (1999) Chitra Nodir
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Chittagong’s Bela biscuit is the first biscuit of the subcontinent and is still so popular all over Bangladesh. People introduced this biscuit dish by dipping it in tea from the beginning because it is round, large, and relatively stiff compared to ordinary biscuits. Famous for over 150 years, it is an afternoon tea companion for
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Mezban, locally known as Mejjan, is the famous and traditional social festival of the Chattogram region in Bangladesh. The word “Mezban” in Persian means host, and “Mezbani” means hosting refers to arranging a feast for the guests. The meaning of the word Mezban or Mejjan has changed over the centuries. It probably started in Bangladesh during the Shah dynasty of Iran. However, it
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Various non-Bangladeshi musicians wrote and performed several English songs about Bangladesh before and after liberation. Bangla Desh “Bangla Desh” is a song written and performed by English musician George Harrison. It has been described as “one of the most cogent social statements in music history”. Released in July 1971 as a non-album single to raise
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Creative Commons Licenses, in the twenty-first century, as ideas are recycled, remixed and reworked, you may find yourself in the tricky position of actually having created something original. You may be worried about the degree to which someone else might use your work or the complete opposite, where you would like everyone to know that
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The bibliography of Shahidul Zahir contains only six published books during his lifetime. Some published stories and novels remain to be published in book form, in addition to some unpublished works. His last published story is titled “The Miracle of Life”, which remains to be anthologized. Novels Jibon O Rajnaitik Bastobota Jibon O Rajnaitik Bastobota was
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If you have a penis, you don’t need to always pees after sex; but if you have a vagina, you should pee after sex. You might hear that before. It can reduce the chances of getting urinary tract infections (UTIs). You should pee immediately after a hookup if you are prone to getting UTIs. However,
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Since the early nineteenth-century travelogue is quite a popular term and becomes a hybrid genre. It sounds like an illustration of nonfiction that describes someone’s experiences while travelling usually accompanied by a given in the form of narrative, public lecture, photography, slideshow, documentary or motion picture. First known use of the hybrid term travelogue was
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You can win a free trip to Google Headquarters located in Mountain View, California, by completing given tasks. Since 2010, Google Inc. has hosted an annual programming competition called Google Code-in (GCI), which deals with pre-university students to complete tasks specified by various partnering open-source organizations. Before CGI‘s modification during 2007-2008, it was originally started as a Google
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Tareque Masud’s Kagojer Phul, an unfinished project based on his father’s life sketch during riots in Calcutta and the partition of Bengal in 1947. Tareque and Catherine Masud co-wrote the screenplay. Tareque Masud, “Cinema Feriwalla” (Vendor of Cinema), was the first Bangladeshi director to be awarded the International Critics’ FIPRESCI Prize in the Directors’ Fortnight section
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Wikicamp Chattogram 2019, the first Wikicamp in Bangladesh, was held this summer. It is intended to become an annual national flagship event for the country. The Chattogram Wikipedia Community organized it on behalf of Wikimedia Bangladesh to increase offline activities of Wikimedia Bangladesh in Chattogram, to promote networking, sharing knowledge and develop stronger relationships among experienced and
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