Sylhet District
Sylhet (Bengali: সিলেট, Sylheti: ꠍꠤꠟꠐ), located in north-east Bangladesh, is the divisional capital and one of the four districts in the Sylhet Division.
Sylhet সিলেট ꠍꠤꠟꠐ | |
|---|---|
 Two landmarks of the city: Keane Bridge and Ali Amjad's Clock | |
| Nickname(s): Jalalabad | |
Expandable map of Sylhet District | |
| Coordinates: 24°53′N 91°52′E | |
| Country |  |
| Division | Sylhet Division |
| Established | 1782 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3,452.07 km2 (1,332.85 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 3,957,000[2] |
| Demonym(s) | Sylheti, Siloti |
| Literacy rate | |
| • Total | 66% |
| Time zone | UTC+06:00 (BST) |
| Postal code | 3100 |
| HDI (2018) | 0.596[3] medium · 11th of 21 |
| Website | sylhet |
History
Sylhet district was established on 3 January 1782, and until 1878 it was part of Bengal province. In that year, Sylhet was included in the newly created Assam Province, and it remained as part of Assam up to 1947 (except during the brief break-up of Bengal province in 1905–11). Sylhet district was divided into five subdivisions and the current Sylhet District was known as the North Sylhet subdivision. In 1947, Sylhet became a part of East Pakistan as a result of a referendum (except 3½ thanas of Karimganj subdivision) as part of Chittagong Division.[4] It was subdivided into four districts in 1983-84 with the current Sylhet District being known as North Sylhet. It became a part of Sylhet Division after its formation in 1995.[4]
Notable people
- Shah Jalal, Sufi saint and mystic.
- Shah Paran, Sufi saint.
- Swami Nikhilananda, Ramakrishna Math and Mission Order monk and Founder-Minister, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, New York City 1933-1973
- Swami Premeshananda, Ramakrishna Math and Mission Order monk
- Swami Gambhirananda, Ramakrish Math and Mission Order monk and President of the Order 1985-1988
- Nurul Islam Nahid, Former Education Minister of Bangladesh
- Govinda Chandra Dev (1 February 1907 – 26 March 1971), known as G. C. Dev, was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dhaka. He was assassinated at the onset of Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 by the Pakistan Army.
- Abdul Malik (physician), National Professor, Brigadier (rtd.), Cardiologist, Founder and President of National Heart Foundation of Bangladesh.
- Rushanara Ali, first Bangladeshi to be elected as an MP for the British parliament.
- Ajmal Masroor, television presenter, politician and imam, Parliamentary candidate for a UK Parliament constituency.
- Lutfur Rahman (politician), the first elected mayor of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets council.
- Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury,former minister and adviser to the president of Bangladesh.
- Humayun Rashid Choudhury, Awami League leader and former speaker of National parliament.
- Dilwar Khan, poet.
- Salman Shah, film actor, model.
- Shuvro Dev, playback singer.
- Syed Ahmed (businessman), businessman, British TV personality.
- Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran, Mayor of Sylhet since 2003, AL.
gollark: From the official docs.
gollark: "Features:- Fortunes/Dwarf Fortress output/Chuck Norris jokes on boot (wait, IS this a feature?)- (other) viruses (how do you get them in the first place? running random files like this?) cannot do anything particularly awful to your computer - uninterceptable (except by crashing the keyboard shortcut daemon, I guess) keyboard shortcuts allow easy wiping of the non-potatOS data so you can get back to whatever nonsense you do fast- Skynet (rednet-ish stuff over websocket to my server) and Lolcrypt (encoding data as lols and punctuation) built in for easy access!- Convenient OS-y APIs - add keyboard shortcuts, spawn background processes & do "multithreading"-ish stuff.- Great features for other idio- OS designers, like passwords and fake loading (est potatOS.stupidity.loading [time], est potatOS.stupidity.password [password]).- Digits of Tau available via a convenient command ("tau")- Potatoplex and Loading built in ("potatoplex"/"loading") (potatoplex has many undocumented options)!- Stack traces (yes, I did steal them from MBS)- Backdoors- er, remote debugging access (it's secured, via ECC signing on disks and websocket-only access requiring a key for the other one)- All this useless random junk can autoupdate (this is probably a backdoor)!- EZCopy allows you to easily install potatOS on another device, just by sticking it in the disk drive of any potatOS device!- fs.load and fs.dump - probably helpful somehow.- Blocks bad programs (like the "Webicity" browser).- Fully-featured process manager.- Can run in "hidden mode" where it's at least not obvious at a glance that potatOS is installed.- Convenient, simple uninstall with the "uninstall" command.- Turns on any networked potatOS computers!- Edits connected signs to use as ad displays.- A recycle bin.- An exorcise command, which is like delete but better.- Support for a wide variety of Lorem Ipsum."
gollark: You would need to get rid of the autoupdate capabilities of potatOS itself, or swap them to your own pastebins/github stuff, and then keep everything in line with the current versions.
gollark: Anyway, <@151391317740486657>, what you can do is fork potatOS and get rid of the bits you don't like, but that's also hard (less, though) and would be very difficult to keep updated.
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See also
- Chowkideki
- Districts of Bangladesh
- List of colleges in Sylhet
- List of people from Sylhet
References
- "registered through Argeweb". www.geohive.com. Archived from the original on 26 February 2014.
- "Sylhet · Population". population.city.
- "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- Ashfaq Hossain (2012). "Sylhet District". In Sirajul Islam and Ahmed A. Jamal (ed.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
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