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Because the editor will be going overseas, this site will not be updated from November 18, 2005 to January 10, 2006. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

To All Concerned Bangla-speaking Australians Parents  Details...

Maheema Tasnim Haque (9) of Grade 4 from Bradbury Public School won the first prize in the Ramadan Awareness Campaign (RAC) Poetry Competition. The theme of the poetry was “TONGUE”. poem...

PROJONMO BANGLADESH SYDNEY PROBASY has been raising funds for the rehabilitations of acid victims of Bangladesh since 2001. Up until now 5 lakh 38,000 thousand taka has been donated to Prothom Alo Shahaoik Tohobil. As previous years Probasy will be organising Qurbani in 2006 and the collected money will be donated to the acid victims. Your involvement and co-operation will tremendously encourage us to do bigger and better things for Bangladesh. The Qurbani order form will be available soon on this website.(For Qurbani contact: 0408418189) Details...

UPCOMING EVENTS BWSC Details...

10 YEARS CELEBRATION

The Bangladesh Society for Puja and Culture (BSPC) Inc. celebrated their 10th Anniversary at Matraville Public School Auditorium on the 6th of November 2005. This was a remarkable achievement for this organisation. The day was spent with the durga puja reunion, 10 years celebration, a prize distribution and ended with a cultural function. Photos...

Dilruba Shahana lives in Melbourne. Archives...

Tempestra Music group held their Eid Ananda Mela 2005 on 6th of November at James Meehan High School Auditorium at Macquarie Fields. There were many items included in the program such as singing, dancing, talk show, comedy and magic show. Tempestra used some modern animation and lighting for this program. The program was filled with colourful decorations. The organiser is expecting to organize many more programs in the near future. Photos...

Bangladesh Association of New South Wales

Bangladesh Gold Cup Cricket Tournament Structure and Playing Conditions -2006 Details...  Sent By: Ash Haq Rana

SPRING FLOWERS, 2005

On Saturday the 8^th of October, dance representatives from the Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka and Indian communities in Sydney performed at Campbelltown Arts Centre and took part of a multi-cultural spring festival. Report & Photos...  Sent By: Lily Gomez

EID PRAYER & REUNION IN SYDNEY

Eid Prayer at Campbelltown, Photos...

Eid Prayer at Quakers Hill, Details & photos...

Eid Reunion organised by Campbelltown Bangla School, Photos...

Details...By Fara Ahmed,  MORE UPDATE...

A New Account, Fund For Community Care, has been opened. So far very good respond from the community. A$ 5,741.70 have already been deposited to the account. Details...

AGM Bangladesh-Australia Disaster Relief Committee

Venue: Bangladesh Association Office, 65 Spurway St., Ermington

Date: November 20, 2005 Time: 10.30-12 AM Details...

Please consider to bring along family and food. - Shah Nawshad

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Afrida Mamun is a year 4 student at Holsworthy P/S. So far she is the youngest writer for this website. She is the daughter of Mahmuda Runu. Again, we encourage any young people with talent in writing to submit their works to us!

Press-release...  Members Signature...

Australia Bangladesh Business Council,AGM Media Release, Details.. Monirul Islam

Rayed Mamun is a first year student of University of New South Wales. His 1^st poem 'The Ashes at last' was also published in the 'Inside Cricket' magazine November issue, page 6. It won the 'Letter of the Month' award. We encourage any young people with talent in writing to submit their works to us! Archives...

Dilruba Shahana lives in Melbourne. Archives...

Iftar organized by Bangladeshi Families

IFTAR AT ROOTY HILL MOSQUE ORGANIZED BY BANGLADESHI FAMILIES, More than 500 men, women and children from different nationalities attended the Annual Iftar program on Saturday, 22nd October at Rooty Hill Mosque. The program was organized by Bangladeshi families. Photos..  Sent By: Dr. Abdul Haq

New Consular fee Bangla English

Abdur Rahman Sikder is a Phd. student at Sydney University: E-mail: sikder@cs.usyd.edu

Palashbari Garments Factory Tragedy

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Sent By: Dilruba Shahana

Enrolment starts for Bangla Course in NSW Saturday School Details...

Atahar Ali optimistic about Bangladesh’s cricket future

One of the finest cricketers of Bangladesh’s pre-test era Atahar Ali Khan was in Sydney recently to attend an annual ICC award ceremony. Report Compiled By: Asif Khan, Reports... Photos...

Sent By: Emdad, Japan Details...

Celebration of Durga Puja in Sydney

Devout Hindus celebrated their greatest extravaganza of Hindu Durga-pujas at various locations in Sydney on 8^th and 9^th of October, many people attended this event on both days. This year the puja was bigger than ever in Sydney and the people were in a very festive mood and enjoyed the occasion extremely. The special prayer was performed for the fight between good and evil so that the dark forces will hopefully eventually surrender to the divine forces.

Bangladesh Socitey for Puja and Culture at Dundas...

Bangladesh Puja Association Australia at Police Citizen Club...

Bengali Association at Concord...

Good Will Week 10 - 16 October 2005 

The message of this year's Good Will Week is, "Don't leave it to chance ... you should make a Will". The week and its special events are, the community education program of the NSW Public Trustee, to encourage, educate and inspire people to make a Will. The Public Trustee is responsible for the making of Wills and other related activities. Details...   Sent By: Helal Morshedi

Get together in honour of Mubarak Hossain Khan

On 2^nd October, 2005, a small get together was held in honour of Mubarak Hossain Khan. Mubarak Hossain was DG in Shilpokalo Academy, Director of Bangladesh Radio and Chairman of the Nazrul Institute. He was also the Executive Director of the Human Development foundation and is also a famous sharad player. Mubarak Hossain did a lot of research in classical music and wrote many books. He also wrote many children fiction books. His wife is a famous singer, Fauzia Khan. Mubarak Hossain is currently visiting his son Rajit in Sydney. Photos...