Drive Safely in the Rain

It's maybe astounding, yet genuine: Driving on a blustery day is more unsafe than driving on a frigid one. At the point when the rain begins to fall and asphalt is wet, your probability of a crash is higher than amid stormy conditions like snow, hail, and ice, as indicated by information from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

In the wake of averaging 10 years of measurements, NHTSA specialists found that 46% p of climate-related accidents occurred amid precipitation, however only 17 percent while it was snowing or sleeting. Those measurements are in part clarified, obviously, by the way, that numerous drivers have the great sense to remain home amid a terrible snowstorm, says Debbie Heisman, president, and CEO of the National Safety Council, which offers guarded driving courses. In any case, the insights likewise mirror a calming truth, she says: Drivers frequently don't regard the rain, and neglect to modify their driving propensities to dangerous conditions.

Here are the means by which to diminish the odds of being a blustery day measurement, as indicated by well-being specialists.

Get Your Car Rain-Ready: 

Tire tread is vital, says Bill Van Tassel, Ph.D., administrator of driver preparing programs for the AAA national office in Orlando, Florida. Uncover a quarter (overlook the old guidance about Lincoln's head on a penny, as a few specialists have found the quarter test more exact). Embed it tipsy truly into your tire tread. "On the off chance that piece of Washington's head is constantly secured by the tread, your tires have more than 4/32 of an inch of tread remaining. On the off chance that the highest point of Washington's head is uncovered anytime, you ought to supplant the tires."

As per NHTSA, tires with 2/32 of an inch of tread are perilous. Be that as it may, you might need to supplant tires before they get this well used, contingent upon driving conditions.

Check headlights, taillights, brake lights and swing signs to make sure all are working appropriately. When you're driving, turn on your headlights to support your deceivability. A few states require the utilization of headlights when windshield wipers are being used.

Back off: Driving too quickly for conditions is particularly hazardous on wet asphalt in light of the fact that your tires lose footing with the precipitation, Van Tassel says. "At the point when roadways are wet, the grating is decreased between the tire and the street,'' Heisman includes. No contact is an awful thing. Tires are intended to hold the streets, not slide on them.

What amount does footing decrease in a wet climate? "You may lose around 33% of your footing," Van Tassel says. What's more, that figure is the reason this suggestion bodes well: Reduce your speed by about a third when it's wet or blustery. On the off chance that as far as possible is 55 mph, go for under 40 mph. "That is not a hard measurement but rather a dependable guideline," he says.

Back off:

Disregard the old run about keeping a specific number of auto lengths amongst you and the vehicle before you, Van Tassel says. Concentrate on staying 3-4 seconds behind the vehicle before you in dry conditions. Watch the vehicle before you as it passes a settled marker, for example, a road light, he says. At that point tally 3 seconds. Include additional time if it's downpouring, remaining around 5 seconds behind.

For each extra driving test, include one more second, Van Tassel says. In the event that it's sprinkling and you are driving around evening time, you ought to expect to be 6 seconds behind the vehicle before you.

Know when to incline toward innovation, and when not to:

"While a few advancements are not fitting for use amid terrible climate, others can help," Hersman says. Try not to rely on upon journey control, versatile voyage control or forward impact cautioning frameworks amid the rain, she says. Wet climate may influence the frameworks' sensors and diminish their dependability, she says.

Indeed, even versatile voyage control, which is a propelled rendition of journey control and keeps up a set speed and a sheltered after separation, is not prescribed amid blustery climate, Van Tassel says.

Here's the reason: When you're driving without voyage control and you see a danger, you lift your foot off the gas pedal as you get ready to brake. As you fall off the gas, the noise of the auto begins to plunge a bit, exchanging some weight to the front.

Van Tassel sees against slide control and path keeping help highlights as being possibly valuable in the rain. "Hostile to slip control is best in class than footing control," he says. "Footing control keeps the drive wheels from turning when you apply the gas (as when attempting to get an auto moving from a stop in snow or ice). Against slide control really forestalls front wheel or back wheel slips when you are driving through a turn (paying little heed to whether the surface is dry or smooth)."

Be that as it may, as other innovation includes, these ought to be seen as a reinforcement, he says. The best guidance for a stormy day with regards to cutting edge vehicle advancements is to "quite recently imagine they are not there," he says.

When You Hydroplane

Assume your auto hydroplanes, which can be a frightening background. Hydroplaning happens when the tires are riding on the highest point of a layer of water and have totally lost contact with the asphalt. It can happen when your speed is as meager as 35 mph. You will know when it happens. "Directing will get light in your grasp," Van Tassel says.

"Delicately back off foot the gas," he prompts. "This may exchange enough weight forward so that your front tires recapture contact with the street."

"We don't prescribe handing the wheel over a hydroplaning circumstance," he says. "On the off chance that you make them direct 'dialed in' when the front tires at long last do recover footing, you may instantly control appropriate off the street. Clearly, that is not something worth being thankful for."

On the off chance that you do begin to slip, don't transform into the slide, paying little respect to what you've listened. "Proceed to look and direct where you need to go," Van Tassel says. This procedure works for both front and back slips.

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A Tour to Sonargaon: True Heritage of Bangladesh

 Sonargaon was the capital of the ancient kingdom ruled by Isa Khan of Bengal. Bengal is now divided into West Bengal, which is a state in India and Eastern Bengal, which is the nation of Bangladesh. Today, old Sonargaon is home to some of the oldest buildings in Bangladesh.

Muslim Settlers firs arrive in Sonargaon in around 1281, from the first settlers like Sufi Saint Sharfuddin Abu Tawwamah, Sultan Firoz Shah his son Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Sha and later Bahram Khan resided and ruled Sonargaon under Emperor Muhammad bin Tughlaq. The history goes on by various ruler and whom treasures Sonargaon with building various palaces, Mosque and monument, which are hard to find now a days.

Old Sonargaon can be found near Narayanganj and Dhaka, cities in Bangladesh, and is considered one of the first and oldest capitals of Bengal. Sonargaon was known as “The City of Panam” and was a focal part of the renowned Deva Dynasty until the thirteenth century. Mainly middle or upper class people inhabited Sonargaon during that time period.
For those interested in historical and archaeological relics, they can enjoy the jewels of Medieval treasures of Sonargaon, which have been unearthed from Sonargaon, the Jainal Abedin Museum (Folk Arts and Crafts Museum)is a good place to visit to see them.
Old Sonargaon is a wonderful city to visit, with so much to offer visitors if history and culture is what they enjoy.
Tour Highlights
·       15th Century Goaldi Mosque
·       Folk Arts and Crafts Museum
·       Visit Abandoned Merchant City (Panam Nagar)
·       Boat Riding on Museum Lake
·       Boat Ride on River Meghna
·       Experiencing Life of Char (A Small land in the River)

Itinerary of Visiting Sonargaon

 8.00 AM – Our Guide and driver will met with tourists at Hotel and start from there to Sonargaon (approx. 50 KM from Northern side of Dhaka City, Travelling duration may vary to 1.5 to 2.00 hours).
9.30/10.00 AM – Starting visit by Goaldi Mosque. (A graceful Single domed mosque originated from Pre-Mughal area as precise novel shrine of the original Heritage of Bangladesh.)
10.30 to 12.00 – Visit Folk Arts and Crafts Museum where we will visit mainly the Sadar Bari (Open House) richly ornamented by 17th century onward local Falk Arts and  Handicrafts. The museum represent the authentic culture and heritage of Bengal nation. After visiting the full museum the Guest can have a watery stroll in the museum lake by small boat by choice.
12.15 -01.00 PM – Visit abandoned city Panam Nagar (Situated in 1895-1905) this settlement consist of single street lined with around 50 mansions build by then the local hindu wealthy merchants.
1.15 – 2.00- Lunch on a Decent Local Restaurant with authentic local food.
2.00 – 4.00 PM – Visit a Char (Small land in the river) during our boat journey in mighty river Meghna. Where we discover the the true life of farmers in Bangladesh.
4.00 – 5.30 PM – Starts for Dhaka, Reaching Hotel therefore the end of Dhaka Heritage Sonargaon tour.

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Ramadan The Month of Taqwa

The month of Ramadan is that in which was revealed the Quran; a guidance for mankind, and clear proofs of the guidance, and the criterion (of right and wrong). And whosoever of you is present, let him fast the month, and whosoever of you is sick or on a journey, a number of other days. Allah desires for you ease; He desires not hardship for you; and that you should complete the period, and that you should magnify Allah for having guided you, and that perhaps you may be thankful.^{[Quran 2:185]}

It is believed that the Quran was first revealed to Muhammad during the month of Ramadan which has been referred to as the "best of times". The first revelation was sent down on Laylat al-Qadr (The night of Power) which is one of the five odd nights of the last ten days of Ramadan.^[17] According to hadith, all holy scriptures were sent down during Ramadan. The tablets of Ibrahim, the Torah, the Psalms, the Gospel and the Quran were sent down on 1st, 6th, 12th, 13th^{[note 2]} and 24th Ramadan respectively.^[18]

According to the Quran, fasting was also obligatory for prior nations, and is a way to attain taqwa, fear of Allah.^{[19][Quran 2:183]} Allah proclaimed to Muhammad that fasting for His sake was not a new innovation in monotheism, but rather an obligation practiced by those truly devoted to the oneness of Allah.^[20] The pagans of Mecca also fasted, but only on tenth day of Muharram to expiate sins and avoid droughts.^[21]

The ruling to observe fasting during Ramadan was sent down 18 months after Hijra, during the month of Sha'aban in the second year of Hijra in 624 CE.^[18]

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The Strange Case of Bhawal Estate !

Bhawal Estate (Bengali: ভাওয়াল) was a large zamindari estate in Bengal in modern-day Bangladesh. Bhawal Estate spread over 579 square miles (1,500 km²) and covered 2,274 villages with the combined population around 500,000, many of them tenant farmers. It gained particular notoriety during the famous Bhawal case.

The area under the estate currently falls under the Gazipur District and the Upazilas of Bangladesh Kaliganj of Dhaka Division. The most famous capitol of the Bhawal Estate was Choira Meah Bari, where zamindar Fazal Gazi lived. He was one of the Baro-Bhuyans(twelve zamindars of Bengal).

Before the Mughal conquest, Bhawal Estate belonged to Gazis of Bhawal. The first known Gazi was Fazal Gazi, who lent a cannon toSher Shah Suri with 'Az Fazal Gazi' (from Fazal Gazi) inscribed on it. Bahadur Gazi was in control during Akbar's invasion. Gazis accepted Mughal suzerainty during Subahdar Islam Khan's final conquest and rule of Bengal. Gazipur District was named after the Gazis of Bhawal.

The Rajas of Bhawal came from the village of Bajrayogini under Munshiganj. Bala Ram, the ancestor of the Rajas of Bhawal, was Dewan to Daulat Gazi at the time of Murshid Kuli Khan's reign in the late seventeenth century. As a policy to collect proper and due revenue, Murshid Kuli Khan replaced many Muslim zamindaris with Hindu ones. Dewan Bala Ram took the opportunity and convinced Murshid Kuli to install his son, Sri Krishna, as the zamindar of Bhawal in 1704 instead of Daulat Gazi. His family ruled Bhawal until the abolition of the zamindari system in 1951 at Choira Meah Bari, which was the capital of Bhawal.

The Bhawal case was an extended Indian court case about a possible impostor who claimed to be the prince of Bhawal, who was presumed dead a decade earlier.

Ramendra Narayan Roy was one of the kumars ("princes") of the Bhawal Estate, a large zamindar in Bengal in modern-day Bangladesh. He was one of three brothers who had inherited the estate from their father. The Bhawal Estate spread over 579 square miles (1,500 km²) and included villages with a population of around 500.000, many of them tenant farmers.

Ramendra Narayan Roy, Second kumar of Bhawal, spent most of his time hunting, in festivities and with women, having several mistresses. By 1905 he had contracted syphilis. In 1909 he went to Darjeeling to seek treatment but was reported to have died there on May 7 at the age of 25. The reported cause of death was biliary colic (gallstones). His body was supposedly cremated in Darjeeling the next day and customary funerary rites were performed on the 8th of May.

Later there was much discussion of what had exactly happened on the 8th of May and what was the exact time of the cremation and exactly who had been cremated. Some witnesses testified that a sudden hailstorm had interrupted the cremation just before the pyre should have been lighted and the body might have disappeared when the mourners had sought shelter.

His young wife Bibhabati Debi moved to Dhaka to live with her brother Satyen Banerjee. Over the next ten years the other Bhawal Estate kumars also died and the colonial BritishCourt of Wards took control of the estate on behalf of their widows.

Over the years there were rumours that Ramendra's body had not been successfully cremated, that the body had disappeared or that he had been seen alive. Relatives sent people to Bengal to investigate rumours that he had become a sannyasi, a religious ascetic. Jyotirmayi, a sister of the kumars, made inquiries and gradually became convinced that her middle brother was somehow alive.

Around 1920-1921 a sannyasi appeared in Buckland Bund in Dhaka covered in ashes. He sat on the street for four months and attracted attention because he was of unusually good physical condition. There were rumors that the second kumar had returned, even when the man said that he had renounced his family. Buddhu, the son of an elder sister of the brothers, visited him but was not yet convinced. Some of the locals arranged for the man's visit to Jaidebpur where he arrived on April 12, 1921 on an elephant.

Over the following couple of days, relatives became convinced that this man was the second kumar, but he returned to Dhaka by April 25. Relatives invited him back to Jaidebpur on April 30 when various relatives and tenants came to see him. When the crowd questioned him, he remembered the name of his wet nurse, a fact that was not public and they recognized him as the second kumar of Bhawal.

The man said that he had become ill in Darjeeling and forgot much of it. He had recovered in the jungle alongside the sadhu Dharamdas Naga who said that he had found him lying on the ground, wet from rain. The sadhu had become his guru and he had spent the intervening years as a sannyasi.

The claimant said that he had wandered all around India without recollection of his past until his memory began to return and his guru told him to return home.

On April 24, 1930, lawyers working for the claimant filed a suit against Bibhabati Debi and other landholders who were represented by the Court of Wards. District judge Alan Henderson assigned judge Panna Lal Basu/Pannalal Bose to the case. Bejoy Chandra Chatterjee served as counsel for the claimant, now a plaintiff. Amiya Nath Chaudhuri counseled the defendants, those represented by the Court of wards. The trial began on November 30, 1933.

Lawyers working for the Court of Wards tried to prove that this barely literate man could not be of Brahmin caste, but those on the claimant's side were able to prove that kumar had really been able to barely read and write. Defense also claimed that the fact that Kumar had had a mistress named Elokeshi was total fiction. When Elokeshi was summoned, she said that police had offered her money for not testifying.

Defense also argued that kumar's syphilis had advanced to the state of open sores when there were no sign of any syphilitic scars in the claimant's body. The claimant spoke mainly Urdu, claiming that he had forgotten most of his Bengali during his travels. There was also an argument about the exact color of kumar's eyes. There were also claims that the body burned in the funeral pyre had been a substitute.

Both sides summoned hundreds of witnesses and some of their comments were contradictory. Defense questioned kumar's sister Jyotirmayi Debi, who supported the claimant and stated that the claimant had various family characteristics and that the claimant did speak Bengali. The plaintiff's side, in turn, closely questioned Bibhabati Debi, who denied she saw any resemblance between her dead husband and the claimant. Ananda Kumari, widow of one of the other kumars, claimed that the kumar had been able to speak English and write in Bengali, neither of which the claimant could do. However, the letters that were presented as evidence of this were found to be forgeries.

In September 1935, the guru Dharamdas Naga arrived to testify in court through an interpreter and repeated that he recognized the claimant as his former disciple Sundardas, previously Mal Singh, who was a Punjabi sikh from Lahore. Das fell ill and had to be questioned outside the courthouse. The claimant's supporters insisted that this guru was a fraud. Both sides' closing arguments lasted for 6 weeks before the court adjourned on May 20, 1936.

Judge Pannabal Basu deliberated his final judgment for three months and on August 24, 1936, after a very detailed explanation and with a large crowd waiting outside, he ruled in favor of the claimant. Afterwards he retired from the judiciary.

The claimant was allowed to withdraw money from his share of the estate. He still left this share in the care of the Court of Wards until further developments. He also got married.

The Board of Revenue did not answer right away and A.N. Chaudhuri withdrew from the case but Bibhabati Debi was not ready to give up. Developments of the war delayed further appeals until 1943, when lawyers for Bibhabati Debi filed appeal for a leave for appeal against the judgment of the High Court in the Privy Council in London. Partially because of the bomb damage to the council chamber in the blitz, The Council moved to the House of Lords and the next hearing began there in 1945. D.N. Pritt worked for the claimant's side and king's counsel W.W. K. Page argued the case for the Court of Wards.

The Privy Council did grant the leave to appeal. Lord Thankerton, Lord Herbert du Parcq and Sir Chettur Madhavan Nair handled the case. The hearing lasted for 28 days. On July 30, 1946 they ruled in favour of the claimant and dismissed the appeal. Judgment was telegraphed to Calcutta the next day.

The same evening, when the claimant went to offer prayers, he suffered a stroke and died two days later. Funeral rites were performed on August 13, 1946. Bibhabati Debi later regarded this as a divinely ordained punishment for impostor. She later refused the inheritance (Rs. 800000) coming from the estate.

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Spectacular Bangladesh -- Paharpur Buddhist Monastery :

A tourist attraction of North Bengal. Somapura Mahavihara  in Paharpur, Badalgachhi Upazila, Naogaon District, Bangladesh is among the best known Buddhist vihar  and is one of the most important archeological sites in the country. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985.Dated from the 8th century AD, the Somapuri Vihara at Paharpur was once the largest Buddhist monastery on the south of the Himalayas. It is considered the most impressive and important archaeological site in Bangladesh. King Dharma Pal established Paharpur Buddhist Monastery which is the most important and largest known monastery in this country. The main Mandir is in the center of this Monastery which is approximately an area of 27 acres of land.

The entire establishment, occupying a quadrangular court, measuring more than 900 ft. externally on each side, has high enclosure – walls about 16 ft. thickness is about 12 ft. to 15 ft. height. With elaborate gateway complex on the north, there are 45 cells on the north and 44 in each of the other three sides with a total number of 177 rooms. The architecture of the pyramidal cruciform temple is profoundly influenced by those of South-East Asia, especially Myanmar and Java.

A small site-museum, built in 1956-57, houses the representation collection of objects recovered from the area, where you can see the statues of Buddha and Vishnu. The antiquities of the museum include terracotta plaques, images of different gods and goodness, potteries, coins, inscriptions, ornamental bricks and other minor clay objects.

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Historical Tourist spot in Dhaka: Ahsan Manzil

Ahsan Manzil situated in old Dhaka beside Buriganga river. This is one of the most visited historical tourist spots in Dhaka. Once the building used as the palace of Nawab. Now a days the Building use as a museum. The founder of the building is Nawab Abdul Gani. He named the building according to the name of his son Khwaja Ahsanullah. The duration of the construction is 1859-1872. In the year of 1906 the decision of the establishment of Muslim League were taken in this building.

In the middle of Eighteenth century Sheikh Enayet Ullah the land lord of Jamalpur district build a palace named "Rangmahal" in the place of Ahsan Manzil. Then his son sold the Rangmahal to the Persian traders.For a long time the building were known as Trading House. In 1835 Khwaja Alimullah father of Abdul Gani bought the building and started living. In 1872 Nawab Abdul Gani rebuild the building and named it as "Ahsan Manzil".

In 1897, an earthquake rocked and made a massive damage of Ahsan Manzil. After then Nawab Khwaja Ahsanullah repaired the whole place again.

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