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        <pubDate>2026-11-14T03:30:12+06:00</pubDate>

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                <title><![CDATA[Tourism Industry in Bangladesh: Arrivals, Earnings and the Road Ahead]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/tourism-industry-in-bangladesh</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Tourism in Bangladesh runs on Bangladeshis: about 15 million domestic travellers a year against fewer than 600,000 foreign visitors — and the foreign figure has fallen three years running. This is the industry in 2026: its arrivals and earnings, its idle new airports and reformed visa rules, and the closures, from Sajek to Saint Martin, that expose its fragility.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 03:05:35 +0600</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Jamdani: The Handwoven Muslin That Became Bangladesh's First GI Product]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/jamdani</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Jamdani is Bangladesh's most famous handloom craft: a figured muslin woven by hand around Rupganj and Sonargaon, inscribed by UNESCO in 2013 and registered in 2016 as the country's first GI product. Yet the weavers behind it earn little, and machine-made copies crowd their market.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 02:57:20 +0600</pubDate>
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                                    <category>Industry</category>
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                <title><![CDATA[Khulna University: The Campus Without Session Jams]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/khulna-university</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Founded under a 1990 act and teaching since 1991, Khulna University is the south-west's public university — and the only one in Bangladesh with no student politics and no session jams. From its 106-acre Gollamari campus beside the Moyur River, its 29 disciplines run from computer science to Sundarbans forestry research.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
                                <guid>https://wikibangla.org/khulna-university</guid>
                <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 02:55:03 +0600</pubDate>
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                                    <category>Institutions</category>
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                <title><![CDATA[Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban: Louis Kahn's Parliament House for Bangladesh]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/jatiya-sangsad-bhaban</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Louis Kahn's Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban — the National Parliament House of Bangladesh, rising from an artificial lake in Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar — is one of the twentieth century's greatest buildings. Commissioned in 1962 as the assembly of Pakistan's second capital and completed only in 1982, it remains the seat of Bangladesh's parliament and a national symbol.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
                                <guid>https://wikibangla.org/jatiya-sangsad-bhaban</guid>
                <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:58:00 +0600</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Mosque City of Bagerhat: Khan Jahan Ali's City and the Sixty Dome Mosque]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/mosque-city-of-bagerhat</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Founded in the 15th century by Khan Jahan Ali, a Sultanate general venerated as a saint, the Mosque City of Bagerhat — then Khalifatabad — is a planned brick city of mosques, tanks and roads on the edge of the Sundarbans, crowned by the great Sixty Dome Mosque and inscribed by UNESCO in 1985.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
                                <guid>https://wikibangla.org/mosque-city-of-bagerhat</guid>
                <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 03:03:22 +0600</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Bandarban: The Mountain District of the Chittagong Hill Tracts]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/bandarban</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Bandarban is Bangladesh's most mountainous and least populated district — high ridges, the winding Sangu river and the country's highest ground, in the south-east of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. This profile covers its Indigenous peoples, its peaks and lakes, its great golden temple, and a trekking economy shaped by three years of security closures.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
                                <guid>https://wikibangla.org/bandarban</guid>
                <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 03:10:02 +0600</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Faraizi Movement: Haji Shariatullah, Dudu Miyan and the Peasant Organisation of Bengal]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/faraizi-movement</link>
                <description><![CDATA[The Faraizi movement, founded by Haji Shariatullah in early nineteenth-century East Bengal, began as a call for Muslims to return to the obligatory duties of Islam — and became, under his son Dudu Miyan, a disciplined peasant organisation that ran its own courts and defied the landlords and indigo planters of the Bengal delta.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
                                <guid>https://wikibangla.org/faraizi-movement</guid>
                <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 03:14:38 +0600</pubDate>
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                                    <category>History</category>
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                <title><![CDATA[Pala Empire: Bengal's Buddhist Empire and the Last Great Buddhist Power of India]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/pala-empire</link>
                <description><![CDATA[From an elected king in a lawless Bengal, the Pala Empire grew into northern India's dominant power and the last great Buddhist empire of the subcontinent. This is the story of Gopala, Dharmapala and Devapala, of the universities of Nalanda and Vikramashila — and of the long decline that ended with the Senas.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:32:58 +0600</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[S. M. Sultan: The Painter Who Gave Bengal's Peasants the Bodies of Heroes]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/sm-sultan</link>
                <description><![CDATA[S. M. Sultan, the mason's son from Narail known in his village as Lal Mia, turned his back on the art schools and gallery capitals of three continents to paint from a house on the Chitra River. What he painted there — the farmers of Bengal with the bodies of giants — made him one of the founders of modern Bangladeshi art.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 03:17:42 +0600</pubDate>
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                                    <category>Biography</category>
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                <title><![CDATA[Prafulla Chandra Ray: Father of Indian Chemistry and Founder of Bengal Chemicals]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/prafulla-chandra-ray</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Prafulla Chandra Ray (1861–1944), born in Raruli in present-day Khulna district, was the Bengali chemist who founded India's first modern chemistry research school and Bengal Chemicals, its first pharmaceutical company. Known as Acharya, he discovered mercurous nitrite, wrote the History of Hindu Chemistry and gave away his salary to his students.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
                                <guid>https://wikibangla.org/prafulla-chandra-ray</guid>
                <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:16:07 +0600</pubDate>
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                                    <category>Biography</category>
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                <title><![CDATA[Muhammad Shahidullah: The Linguist Who Gave Bengali Its History]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/muhammad-shahidullah</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Muhammad Shahidullah (1885–1969), Dhaka University's great philologist, traced the origins of the Bengali language, edited its oldest texts and, in 1947, made the first scholarly case for Bangla as a state language of Pakistan — the intellectual foundation of the Language Movement.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
                                <guid>https://wikibangla.org/muhammad-shahidullah</guid>
                <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:10:30 +0600</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Lalon Shah: The Baul Mystic Who Refused to Name His Religion]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/lalon-shah</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Lalon Shah (c. 1774–1890), the Baul mystic of Cheuriya in Kushtia, sang that God lives not in temple or mosque but in the human heart — and refused to the end to say whether he was born Hindu or Muslim. His songs remain the soul of Bengal's Baul tradition.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
                                <guid>https://wikibangla.org/lalon-shah</guid>
                <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:05:20 +0600</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Startup Ecosystem in Bangladesh: Funding, Founders and the Road Ahead]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/startup-ecosystem-in-bangladesh</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Bangladesh's startups raised about $435 million in their 2021 peak year and just $6 million in the first half of 2026. This is the story of that full cycle — bKash's unicorn rise, ShopUp's merger into SILQ, the funding winter that left even Chaldal unable to pay salaries, and the state's late, large attempt to build domestic venture capital.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
                                <guid>https://wikibangla.org/startup-ecosystem-in-bangladesh</guid>
                <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 03:20:33 +0600</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Shipbuilding Industry in Bangladesh: From River Craft to Global Orders]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/shipbuilding-industry-in-bangladesh</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Bangladesh has built ships for centuries — for sultans, merchants and the Mughal navy — and in 2008 became a modern ship-exporting nation. This is the story of its yards, from Khulna Shipyard and the state docks to Ananda and Western Marine: the export breakthrough, the debt crisis that nearly sank the sector, and the cautious revival under way in 2026.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
                                <guid>https://wikibangla.org/shipbuilding-industry-in-bangladesh</guid>
                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 22:38:41 +0600</pubDate>
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                                    <category>Industry</category>
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                <title><![CDATA[Shahjalal University of Science and Technology: Bangladesh's First Science and Technology University]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/shahjalal-university-of-science-and-technology</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), founded in Sylhet in 1986 as Bangladesh's first science and technology university, grew from 205 students in three departments to a research university of 8,900 students. From its 320-acre Kumargaon campus it pioneered the semester system, text-message admissions and the combined admission test — and still runs its own entrance examination.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
                                <guid>https://wikibangla.org/shahjalal-university-of-science-and-technology</guid>
                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 22:32:51 +0600</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy: The National Academy of Fine and Performing Arts]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/bangladesh-shilpakala-academy</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Founded in 1974 and headquartered at Segunbagicha in Dhaka, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy is the country's national academy of fine and performing arts — home to the National Theatre and National Art Gallery, organiser of the Asian Art Biennale, and, through branches in all 64 districts, the largest public patron of Bangladeshi culture.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
                                <guid>https://wikibangla.org/bangladesh-shilpakala-academy</guid>
                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 22:27:19 +0600</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Kuakata: The Daughter of the Sea]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/kuakata</link>
                <description><![CDATA[On Bangladesh's southern coast, Kuakata is one of the few beaches in the world where the sun both rises and sets over the same sea. Behind its 18 kilometres of sand stands an older story — Rakhine settlers who crossed from Arakan in 1784, dug the wells that named the place, and built its Buddhist temples — and a modern one, of tourism growth on a shoreline being steadily cut away by erosion.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
                                <guid>https://wikibangla.org/kuakata</guid>
                <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 03:30:12 +0600</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Sajek Valley: The Queen of Hills Above the Clouds]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/sajek-valley</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Sajek Valley, a ridge-top settlement of Lushai, Pangkhua, Tripura and Chakma villages in Rangamati's Baghaichhari upazila, rose from one of Bangladesh's most inaccessible corners to its most famous hill destination in a single decade. This profile traces the valley's land, river and people, its tourism boom, the devastating fire of February 2025, and its closure in the autumn of 2026.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
                                <guid>https://wikibangla.org/sajek-valley</guid>
                <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 03:26:39 +0600</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Chittagong Armoury Raid 1930: Surya Sen's Uprising Against British Rule]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/chittagong-armoury-raid-1930</link>
                <description><![CDATA[On the night of 18 April 1930, a schoolteacher and some sixty-five young revolutionaries seized Chittagong's armouries, cut the city off from British India and proclaimed a provisional government — but the ammunition was never found. This is the story of Surya Sen, the Battle of Jalalabad Hill, and the women of the movement, Pritilata Waddedar and Kalpana Datta.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 20:42:37 +0600</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Battle of Buxar 1764: The Battle That Sealed British Rule in Bengal]]></title>
                <link>https://wikibangla.org/battle-of-buxar-1764</link>
                <description><![CDATA[In October 1764, on the Ganges at Buxar, Company sepoys under Hector Munro defeated the combined forces of Mir Qasim, Shuja-ud-Daula of Awadh and the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II. That victory — judged by Britannica to be more decisive than Plassey — led to the Treaty of Allahabad and the Diwani grant of 1765, turning a trading company into the revenue ruler of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.]]></description>
                                    <author><![CDATA[Wiki Bangla <wikibangla.org.bd@gmail.com>]]></author>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 20:35:59 +0600</pubDate>
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