One of the country’s well-preserved ethnicity is the Bangladeshi’s cultural dance. The country’s cultural dances are common to the Middle Eastern dances. These cultural dances are associated with weddings and certain activities like harvesting, planting, fishing and others which mirrors the Bangladeshi’s way of life.

There are many cultural dances in Bangladesh, and each occasion has requires a specific dances. Here are some of the cultural dances of Bangladesh:

• Chhau dance – which is a form of masked dance performed in the western regions of Bengal. It is a martial arts dance wherein the dancers wear attires together with swords and shields. Each dancers portray different characteristics and roles such as gods, demons and animals. It is more like a dance role playing. Chhau dance can be performed during any occasions.

• Chhokra dance – performed by young Bangladeshi boys portraying the roles of women. The dance is presented in an open field preferably in a canopied stage. The Chhoka dance is accompanied by a large team of singers and musicians who are commonly seated on the sides of the stage.

• Lathi dance – is a stick dance performed during the Muharram celebration which is the “Sacred month” of the Islam. This is celebrated during the fist month of the Hegira or the Islamic calendar. This dance is performed by youth groups that wear tight-fitted clothes and carry daggers, swords and cymbals.

• Kali dance – performed by a dancer wearing a black mask and representing the character of the goddess Kali who is a Hindu goddess which is said to be associated with eternal powers. Kali is known to be the goddess of time and change. The drum is the main instrument being played during the Kali dance.

• Ghatu dance – performed with accompanying Ghatu songs which are Bangladesh native folk songs. The name Ghatu was derived if the name Ghat which means ‘river bank’. The Ghatu dance was mainly for entertainment and is not a religious dance. This is a form of dance performed by young boys dressed like girls which are the main attraction of the dance.

There are other numerous cultural dances in Bangladesh. These dances each are very entertaining and fun to watch. Dances are still being performed these days, which is one of the main attractions in Bangladesh.

It is essential to identify the outcomes of the process of moving production from high pay to low pay nations for both developing and developed nations. It is a bare fact that most of the Third World nations are now on the way to industrialisation. In this procedure, workers are working under unfavourable working environment – minimal wages, unhealthy place of work, lack of security, no job guarantee, forced labour etc.

The route of globalisation is full of ups and downs for the developing nations. Relocations of comparatively mobile, blue-collar production from industrialized to developing nations, in some circumstances, can have troublesome effects on social life if – in the absence of efficient planning and talks between international organisations and the government and/or organisations of the host nation – the transferred action encourages urban-bound relocation and its span of stay is short. Another negative result is that the rise in employment and/or income is not expected to be satisfactorily large and extensive to lessen inequality. In connection with the negative results of relocation of manufacturing on employment in developed countries, we realize that in comparatively blue-collar industries, the growing imports from developing nations lead to unavoidable losses in employment. It is held that development of trade with the South was a significant reason of the disindustrialisation of employment in the North over past few decades.

A research reveals that 90 percent of the garment employees went through illness or disease during the month before the interviews. Headache, anaemia, fever, chest, stomach, eye and ear pain, cough and cold, diarrhoea, dysentery, urinary tract infection and reproductive health problems were more common diseases. The garment factories gave bonus of different diseases to the employees for working. With a view to finding out a link between these diseases and industrial threats, health status of employees has been examined before and after coming in the garment work. At the end of examination, it was come out that about 75 percent of the garment workforce had sound health before they entered the garment factory. The reasons of health declines were industrial threats, unfavourable working environment, and want of staff facilities, inflexible terms and conditions of garment employment, workplace pressure, and low wages. Different work-related threats and their influence on health forced employees to leave the job after few months of joining the factory; the average length of service was only 4 years.

The garment sector is disreputable for fires, which are said to have claimed over 200 lives in the past two years, though exact figures are tough to find. A shocking instance of absence of workplace safety was the fire in November 2000, in which almost 50 workers lost their lives in Narsingdi as exist doors were closed.

From the above analysis of working atmosphere of garment sector, we can state that the working environment of most of the Third World nations, particularly Bangladesh remind us of earlier development of garment industries in the First World nations. The state of employment in many (not necessarily) textiles and clothing units in the developing nations take us back to those set up in the nineteenth century in Europe and North America. The mistreatment of garment employees in the birth period of the development of US garment factories reviewed above is more or less same as it seen now in the Bangladesh garment industry. Can we state that garment employees of the Third World nations living in the 21st century? Is it a return of the Sweatshop?

In a way, the Western companies are guilty of pitiable working atmosphere in the garment sector. The developed nations want to make more profit and therefore, force the developing nations to cut down the manufacturing cost. In order to survive in the competition, most of the developing nations select immoral practices. By introducing inflexible terms and conditions in the business, the global economy has left few alternatives for the developing nations.

Cox’s Bazar – World’s Longest Sea Beach: The most prominent travel destination in Bangladesh is the world’s longest unbroken sandy sea beach of Cox’s Bazar. Another specialty about Cox’s Bazar is the unique combination of hills and sea beach. Which is why its natural scenario is amazing and is very hard to find anywhere in the world. That’s why it’s the most visited travel destination in Bangladesh.

Enchanting Saint Martin: Another stunning travel destination of Bangladesh is the Saint Martin’s Island. It’s very close to Cox’s Bazar placed in the lap of the Bay of Bengal. It’s the only coral island of the country with crystal clear blue water of the sea. In a moon lit night it turns into a fairy land like natural view that no one can’t forget.

Sundarbans – World’s Largest Mangrove Forest: Sundarbans is the world’s largest mangrove forest which is located in the south western part of Bangladesh and is one of the most desired tourists’ destinations in Bangladesh. Sundarbans is home to the majestic Royal Bengal Tigers and of Sunduri trees. It has a very rich variation of wild life and covered by a net of canals which makes the jungle one of the most gorgeous jungles of the world.

Sylhet – World’s Biggest Tea Garden: Sylhet of Bangladesh is place where world’s biggest tea garden is situated. It’s a place of hilly terrains covered with a green carpet and has a colorful cultural life of the various tribes live here. It also has some holy shrines which makes Sylhet craving place to the religious people. All in all it is one of the most desired travel destinations in Bangladesh.

Kuakata – The Daughter of the Sea: Kuakata is so blessed with nature that it is often called as the daughter of the sea. It is one of the rarest places on earth where sun rise and sun set both can be seen. Also it has some sea-shore forests which make it a charismatic place for the tourists to visit.

Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts – located in an attractive residential building in the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The art gallery is truly beautiful inside and out. It has an amazing garden right outside the building, and a beautiful and artistically designed interior. The building’s spectacular beauty can be viewed the by guests right after they enter the gallery. Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts is the home of the country’s valued art designs and art pieces. The gallery was officially opened to the public in 2000, and has become the leading gallery of Fine Arts ever since. Bengal gallery has already organized many exhibitions and has showcased the works of almost 300 artists both local and abroad. The gallery has been a regular showroom for artworks of Bangladeshi artists.

National Art Gallery – this gallery was built in 1974. It is located inside the Shilpaka Academy in Dhaka. The gallery is a two story building, which consists of a number of exhibition halls and work shops. These work shops are being used today for educational purposes such as lectures and practical working. The National Art Gallery is the country’s true historical treasure. It holds the most precious and valuable historical materials of Bangladesh.

Saju Art Gallery – located in Gulshan suburbs of Dhaka. For more than three decades, the gallery has been a favorite of artists to display and exhibit their artworks. Tha Saju Art gallery is owned by Ramiz Ahmed Chowdhury Saju, who is now a well respected personality among artists, art dealers and the critics. The Saju Art Gallery is best visited any time of the year.

Drik Gallery – a very well-known establishment in Bangladesh for its stylish layout and its beautiful exhibited artworks. Thousands of visitors come here each year to witness different art displays. The gallery is much dedicated to photography and also other arts like painting and sculpture. Drik Gallery also opens various workshops throughout the year prior to the subject of the exhibit.

Chitrak Gallery – located in Dhanmondi, a residential area in Dhaka. Different art exhibitions with different themes are held here, consequently so the visitors can always have something new. There are also various events that the gallery organizes such as charitable events where they promote to earn funds for schools and to earn money for feeding programs.

Parliamentary elections, which were to take place in January 2007, were postponed due to violent disagreement between the two major political blocs over the preparations of the elections. On 11 January 2007, the President declared a state of emergency.A new caretaker government under Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed was installed with the backing of the military. After the 5 years tenure of BNP (last) government the caretaker government has come into the power as the process of constitution with a lot of debatable persons. The country was in crisis of non-party or impartial person for the chair of the chief advisor of non-party caretaker government.The first assembly of non-party caretaker government had oath on October 2006. But the rights and freedom of citizens were fully protected by the supreme law the Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. However, the chief election commissioner appointed in the first time was the most disputed person though his appointment had legal authenticity.

But on that time with the bitter intervention of foreign diplomats in the internal politics of country the political climate had been changed as political calamity and therefore day by day the inside political atmosphere of the country became more uncertain. In the meantime the weakness of Presidential power finally turned off the hope-light of the nation. Unexpectedly the first assembly of Caretaker Government falls down on early January 2007 with an uncertain future of the country for impalpable plan of foreign diplomats (as demanded by media & specialists). EU considered this abnormal circumstance as their experiment on human right violation because where every day people’s life become more and more dangerous and the commission of EU addressed that they were monitoring the situation very seriously and human rights violation is sustainable in Bangladesh.

By their intervention together with foreign diplomats the internal political atmosphere of the country turned away to an unpredictable disaster and the human rights faced the final stage inside the country. The non-party caretaker government assembly of the caretaker government broke down for their incompetence to an uncertain future of Country. The final disaster came with failure of free fair and credible and transparent election. The second military backed assembly of the caretaker government headed by Mr. Fakruddin Ahmed (former employee of World Bank) came into effect from 11 January 2007. In the meantime the people who always desire the democracy and freedom of citizens had lost their language by the proclamation of State Emergency on 11 January 2007.

Military backed government took the power with trampling the hope and desire of democracy loved citizens and by burial of human rights and freedom of speech. With crystal violation of Constitution the semi-martial government starts their journey in the name of upholding and regaining the democracy in the state as well as to curb rampant corruption. Mr. Fokruddin becomes the chief adviser of the military-led government who has no constitutional legality as well as impartiality or popularity in Bangladesh. The government is trying to preserve & protect the interest of foreign policy without caring the sovereignty of Bangladesh. Incompetency of government taking the future of this country towards an unpredictable danger.

There is nothing like Human Rights & Fundamental Rights in Bangladesh rather the arbitrary operation of “The Emergency Power Ordinance 2007″.Social, political & economical sectors are being destroyed through the enactment of various Laws without bothering the interest and undue effect of these laws. Government is taking every action with the military backing where the image of our precious armed forces distinctly in question.Government is playing with various sensitive issues which are not even possible for an elected government.

The brains behind the concert was ex Beatle, George Harrison, who had become very much into causes after the group split up. In this case, the cause was the people of Bangladesh, who were literally starving to death. The concert was put on in the hopes of bringing some hope to a dying region of the world.

Bangladesh had a troubled history. The events leading up to this concert are as follows.

In 1969 General Yahya Khan assumed power in Pakistan. His goal was to put an end to end the dictatorship and start a democracy. In December of the following year the League of Bangladesh won a huge victory. It became the largest party in Pakistan. But Kahn was unwilling to allow a power shift to Bangladesh. So the results of the election were ignored and a reign of terror was unleashed in Bangladesh to eliminate the opposition to Kahn. It is estimated that over 1 million people were murdered. This was the greatest atrocity since Hitler and the Jews. The ones who escaped to India suffered terrible starvation, among other things. Thus, the reason for the concert.

It all started with a call that George Harrison made to Ringo Starr, another ex Beatle. He then made another call to Leon Russell. Both agreed to come to the East Coast for the concert. After those calls, others were made to business managers, the Garden itself and everyone and anyone Harrison could think of to be of assistance.

The list of performers were as long as King Kong’s right arm. At the top of the list was Eric Clapton, who had played with George Harrison while with the Beatles on tunes like “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” which was played at the concert itself.

Another friend of Harrison’s, Billy Preston, who played on the Beatle’s big hit “Get Back” was also there. At the concert itself Preston played “That’s The Way God Planned It.”

A group that was up and coming at the time, Badfinger, was also in attendance. They were supposed to be the next Beatles, actually founded by the Beatles and also on Apple Records. At the concert Badfinger served as a backing band and didn’t play any of their original material.

Rounding out the all star cast was the great Bob Dylan, who sang many tunes including his signature tune “Blowin’ In The Wind.”

The Concert for Bangladesh was not just a concert. It was an event. One that will never be forgotten and one that hopefully will never come again.

Bangladesh occupies part of the north eastern corner of the Indian subcontinent. It is surrounded by India apart from a short boarder with Myanmar and its 580 kilometre coastline. Most of the coastline is not continuous but broken up by the channels of delta. There are many rivers which flow through the delta and end up at the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean. These rivers are the Ganges, Brahmaputra, Meghna etc. The Ganges and the Brahmaputra start in the Himalaya Mountains.

In Bangladesh about 35 percent adults are literate. Poor families cannot afford to let their children go to school so instead they work. Although primary schools are free, only about 80 percent of eligible pupils attend them. Only 25 percent of them will complete five years of basic education. After having completed basic or primary education pupils start class 6 at high school and get their Secondary School Certificate after they have studied another 4 years.

Subjects include English, Bengali, General Maths, Additional Math, optional, Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Home Economics, Religious studies. Students need to study for two more years to get Higher Secondary Certificate which are the equivalent of A levels. In higher education a student must complete 2 years for ordinary graduation and 3 years for an Honours degree. Ordinary graduates need two more years for a Masters whilst an Honours graduate need only study for one more year.

Bangladesh is hot and humid in summer and cool in winter. During the monsoon, it rains heavily average rainfall being 136. The climate is characterised by moderately high temperature for about eight months in the year, maximum temperature in summer ranges between 30 and 38, while the minimum during the winter is 9. You’ll appreciate our culture and the environment. These are not simply sight-seeing excursions, but real-time learning experiences. Enjoy an ideal blend of adventure and exploration with comfort and relaxation.

Banks usually offer their remittance services at a higher value for customers who have accounts with them. The rates on small money transfers are often higher than money transfer operators. Transfers through banks average 5 days, but this time can vary from 2 to 10 days depending on the method used to process the transaction from the receiving banks.

Money Transfer operators (MTOs) tend to have lower rates than banks for small remittances. There is also the convenience of longer operating hours and more locations. MTOs usually take less than 24 hours to process a transfer. In some cases, it can take as little as 10 minutes.

MTOs have better coverage in receiving countries with more outlets spread throughout the region. Some of the larger networks have over 60,000 outlets worldwide.

Security is the number one factor in choosing a money transfer provider. Many times immigrants choose a provider based on word of mouth from someone else that has used the service. Banks are viewed as more trustworthy.

Money transfer operators are viewed as offering better service mainly because this is their main scope of business. MTOs seem be targeted because of the low-value transfers that are the most common form of remittances sent to countries.

Prepaid debit cards are widely becoming a more popular way for people sending money home to relatives and friends. Because of their low cost and the ability to reload the card, it is convenient for the sender and receiver. Companies like ATMCASH offer fees starting as low at $5.00, and is fast becoming one of the leaders in the industry with flat-fee rates for transferring money.

Although banks and MTOs remain the number one choice for immigrants to transfer funds, the competition from debit cards (cash cards, prepaid cards), and online services are increasing in popularity and will soon take the  number one spot for those working abroad to send money back home to the country of origin quickly, securely, and at a substantial savings.