People suffer in Paturia, Daulatdia tailbacks

Passengers on the both ends of Paturia and Daulatdia ferry terminals are suffering as they remain stuck in a tailback on Sunday, September 18, 2016. In the photo, workers are putting sand-filled sacks on the banks of the Padma River to save a ferry landing station in Paturia terminal from erosion. Photo: Palash Khan

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Passenger busses remain stuck in a tailback at Paturia ferry terminal on Sunday, September 18, 2016. Photo: Palash Khan Thousands of people have been suffering on both ends of Paturia and Daulatdia ferry terminals due to a tailback.

Ferry services at the terminals were hampered triggering a two-kilometre tailback as the number of landing stations at Daulatdia end was decreased due to river erosion.

Passengers of 21 south and south-western districts travelling to and fro have been facing serious problems including shortages food and toilet facilities at the ferry terminals.

Passenger busses remain stuck in a tailback at Paturia ferry terminal on Sunday, September 18, 2016. 

Two of the four landing stations of the Two of the four landing stations of the Daulatdia terminal are in operation, our Manikganj correspondent reports quoting Md Shafiqul Islam, manager (commerce) of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) at Daulatdia ferry terminal.

The landing station no. 4 was closed at around 1:00am today as its approach road of Rajbari Roads and High ways damaged by the river erosion, he said.

The landing station no. 2 was suspended earlier due to the damage by the erosion, the BIWTC official added.

Abdus Sattar, manager (Marine), of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) at Aricha office, said 13 of 19 ferries are in operation as six are being repaired.

Around five hundred vehicles were seen stranded at Daulatdia terminal under Goalunda upazila in Rajbari district today.

On the other end, a two-kilometre tailback was created at Paturia ferry terminal under Shivalaya upazila in Manikganj where Shyamal, a youth of Faridpur, said he was waiting for ferry at Paturia terminal for nearly three hours.

A driver of Eagle Paribahan said his vehicle was stranded at Paturia terminal for more than two and a half hour.

Powerful Blast Injures at Least 29 in Manhattan; Second Device Found

Powerful Blast Injures at Least 29 in Manhattan; 

Second Device Found

A powerful explosion caused by what the authorities believe was a homemade bomb injured at least 29 people on a crowded sidewalk in the bustling Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan on Saturday night.

A few hours later, the authorities found and removed what they described as a second explosive device four blocks away, raising the possibility that two bombs had been planted in the heart of the city.

Mayor Bill de Blasio called the explosion — which occurred about 8:30 p.m. on West 23rd Street — “an intentional act” but initially said there was no connection to terrorism and no immediate claim of responsibility.

Police officers swarmed Chelsea’s streets after the blast, which reverberated across a city scarred by terrorism and vigilant about threats, just days after the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

“Whatever the cause,” Mr. de Blasio said, “New Yorkers will not be intimidated.”

As the authorities sought to identify what had caused the explosion, they described the second device as a pressure cooker resembling the one used in the deadly Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, according to a police official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a continuing investigation.

It was unclear whether the blast on West 23rd Street had been caused by the same type of explosive.

In the immediate aftermath, the police shut down a swath of Manhattan south of Midtown. The area from 14th Street to 32nd Street was closed to traffic between Fifth and Eighth Avenues. But by 7 a.m., only 23rd Street remained closed.

A grim Mr. de Blasio, speaking at a news conference at the scene around 11:15 p.m., said “injuries are significant.” But for the moment, he said, none of them were life-threatening.

Many of the injuries were caused by shrapnel from the explosion, which witnesses said seemed to have started inside a sidewalk Dumpster near the Avenue of the Americas. Images of a twisted Dumpster in the middle of West 23rd Street quickly proliferated on Twitter.

Witnesses said the blast on West 23rd Street had seemed to come from a Dumpster. The authorities were investigating the cause. 

The impact shattered windows, damaged cars and sent crowds running from the scene at an hour when Chelsea, always a popular destination, was filled with residents and tourists.

“It was the biggest blast I ever would imagine, lights flashing, glass shattering,” said a woman who was injured in the explosion.

The force of the explosion, she said, flung her into the air.

“It happened so fast I was thrown up and landed down, I didn’t know where it had come from,” said the woman, who would give only her first name, Helena, as she hobbled out of Bellevue Hospital Center about 4 a.m. after she was treated for injuries to her eye and legs. “I realized there was blood streaming down my face, and I couldn’t see out of my eye.”

Luke McConnell, who was visiting from Colorado, was headed toward a restaurant on West 27th Street when the blast occurred. “I felt it, like a concussive wave, heading towards me.”

“Then there was a cloud of white smoke that came from the left side of 23rd Street near Sixth,” he said. “There was no fire, just smoke.”

Witnesses said they could feel the explosion from several blocks away. Daniel Yount, 34, said he was standing on the roof of a building at 25th Street and the Avenue of the Americas with friends.

“We felt the shock waves go through our bodies,” he said.

It was a startling scene, full of dark possibilities, for a city that endured the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but has so far been spared the kind of mayhem that has terrorized city after city around the world in the 15 years since.

The closest New York has come to an attack was in 2010, when the police found a crude car bomb of propane, gasoline and fireworks inside a sport utility vehicle in Times Square. Although the device had apparently started to detonate, there was no explosion.

On Saturday night in Chelsea, the device found on West 27th Street also caused no harm.

Images shared on social media and confirmed as authentic by a senior police official showed a silver-colored piece of cookware with wires and a cellphone attached.

The official said the Police Department’s bomb squad was taking the device to a department facility in the Bronx, where robots would inspect it.

A Police Department truck, which was towing the second explosive device in a spherical chamber, drove away with it around 2:25 a.m. Sunday. 

Around 2:25 a.m., a Police Department truck towing a spherical chamber, which contained the device, headed east on West 27th Street and turned up the Avenue of the Americas. Several police officers who had spent the evening on alert were visibly relieved, as one by one they let the few residents who had been waiting all night beside the caution tape return home.

It was a cool Saturday night, and the businesses along West 23rd Street, the busiest east-west thoroughfare in Chelsea, were teeming with customers.

The blast seemed to shake the entire block, smashing windows in a five-story brownstone building and sending debris into the street, a law enforcement official said.

The sidewalk where the explosion occurred is in front of a nondescript building wedged between a church and an apartment building.

Video captured before the explosion shows a man crossing “the street in the direction of where the device was found,” the same official said. But no video had yet been obtained clearly showing anyone placing the device in the spot where it detonated.

“We don’t understand the target or the significance of it,” the police official said. “It’s by a pile of Dumpsters on a random sidewalk.”

Marcello Begu, 58, was spinning pizzas at the nearby Ciao Bella Napoli restaurant when he heard the blast.

“I’ve never heard a noise like that in my life,” he said. “The ground was shaking. I was scared to go outside.”

In Washington, the White House issued a brief statement saying that President Obama had been briefed on the developing situation in New York.

Both the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates broke from their campaign routines to address the issue.

Donald J. Trump, in Colorado Springs, rushed to describe the explosion as a bomb well before the authorities had made any determinations about what had happened and while the situation was still in flux.

“I must tell you that just before I got off the plane, a bomb went off in New York and nobody knows exactly what’s going on,” he said. “But boy, we are living in a time — we better get very tough, folks.”

The Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, was informed of the episode after she gave a speech at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual awards dinner, her campaign said.

She seemed to scold Mr. Trump for his quick assessment.

“I think it’s always wiser to wait until you have information before making conclusions,” Mrs. Clinton said.

Officials said the New York explosion was not connected to a blast that happened 11 hours before when an improvised device exploded in a garbage can near the course of a charity race that was about to start in a small town on the Jersey Shore. That device went off around 9:30 a.m. near the boardwalk in Seaside Park, N.J., according to the Ocean County sheriff, Michael G. Mastronardy.

There were no injuries. The race, the Seaside Semper Five, a five-kilometer run and charity event along the waterfront that raises money for members of the United States Marine Corps and their families, was canceled.

Reporting was contributed by Nicholas Corasaniti, Sandra E. Garcia, Sarah Maslin Nir, William K. Rashbaum, Noah Remnick, Kenneth R. Rosen and Nate Schweber.

A version of this article appears in print on September 18, 2016, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Powerful Blast in Manhattan Is Called an ‘Intentional Act’. 

Nisha Biswal to arrive Dhaka tomorrow

US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow. 

 

US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow for a two-day official visit in the wake of terrorist attack at a Gulshan café in Dhaka on July 1 that left 22 people including 17 foreigners and two police officers dead.

During her visit to Dhaka, Biswas will meet with the high government officials including the home minister and foreign minister.

She may also call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, diplomatic sources in Dhaka and Washington said.

Biswal will discuss the security situation in Bangladesh following the July 1 attack, US offer for support in investigation into the attack, security for US embassy officials and US facilities in Bangladesh.

She visited Dhaka on May 5 and 6 after the brutal murder of USAID staff Xulhaz Mannan in Dhaka on April 25.

Twenty hostages were brutally murdered during the chilling siege on July 1 before the commandoes stormed the popular hangout in Dhaka's diplomatic zone next morning.

Nine Italians, seven Japanese, two Bangladeshis, one Bangladeshi-American and one Indian were killed among others.

To policemen were also killed on the day of the attack at Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan.

Thirteen hostages were rescued while six of the gunmen, who attacked the upscale eatery on Road 79 Friday night, were killed in the 50-minute army-led joint forces operation codenamed "Operation Thunderbolt".

The seventh attacker was held in the operation beginning at 7:40am, officials said.

Shootings Further Divide a Nation Torn Over Race

A spray-painted mural on a building on Foster Drive in Baton Rouge, La., on Thursday, where Alton Sterling was shot to death by a police officer two days earlier.

First came the cellphone video of an African-American man being fatally shot by a Louisiana police officer, and the astonishing live feed of a Minnesota woman narrating the police killing of her African-American boyfriend during a traffic stop. Then came the horrific live television coverage of police officers being gunned down by a sniper at a march protesting the police shootings.

And suddenly, the panoply of fears and resentments that have made this a foreboding summer had been brought into sharp relief.

Police accountability and racial bias have been at the center of the civic debate since August 2014, when a black teenager was killed by a white officer in Ferguson, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis. Mass murders in Newtown, Conn.; Charleston, S.C.; Orlando, Fla., and too many other locales have revived gun violence as a social issue and national shame. Both black anger at police killings and the boiling frustrations of some whites who feel they are ceding their long-held place in society have been constant undercurrents in politics since January and the Iowa presidential caucuses.

Now, in the space of three days, the killings of two black men by Louisiana and Minnesota police officers and the retaliatory murders of five Dallas officers, this time by a black Army veteran, have coalesced all those concerns into a single expression of national angst. In the midst of one of the most consequential presidential campaigns in memory, those convulsive events raised the prospect of still deeper divides in a country already torn by racial and ideological animus.

Since the Thursday night sniper attack the national conversation has swung between bitterness and despair over seemingly unbridgeable gulfs in society. The New York Post’s front page blared “CIVIL WAR.” The Drudge Report warned in a headline that “Black Lives Kill.” Some Minnesota protesters on Thursday night chanted, “Kill the police.”

Police officers and sociologists alike say that racial tension is approaching a point last seen during the street riots that swept urban American in the late 1960s when disturbances erupted in places like the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts and Detroit and Newark, during summers of deep discontent.

“Even in the 1960s and 1970s, when there was a lot of tension around policing and civil rights and the antiwar movement, we’d never seen anything like what happened in Dallas,” said Darrel W. Stephens, the executive director of the Major Cities Chiefs Association and an instructor at the Public Safety Leadership Program in the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University.

Mr. Stephens and other police officials said that departments were increasingly schooling officers in ways to avoid and defuse violent encounters with minorities. But other experts said the parade of cellphone videos depicting shootings of black men have only reinforced African-Americans’ conviction that little has changed in six decades.

“There is a constant bombardment of images of brutality against African-Americans, and not just brutality, but state-sponsored brutality,” said Paul Butler, a former federal prosecutor and a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center. This week’s videos, he said, were particularly devastating. “It’s visceral,” he said. “It hits you in the gut. It’s emotional and graphic, so it makes you feel worse.”

There are some parallels today to the 1960s. Those riots were largely touched off by violent encounters between blacks and the police. Scholars say and statistics show that attacks on police officers became an increasingly frequent African-American response to decades of inequality and mistreatment at that time.

The Kerner Commission, established by President Lyndon B. Johnson, reported in 1968 that “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate but unequal.” And a white backlash became a driving force in the presidential campaign that year that saw a tough-talking Republican, Richard M. Nixon, end eight years of Democratic rule.

Whether this week’s violence presages a repeat of that history is, of course, an unknown, as the nation’s first black president nears the end of two terms in office and the two political parties move toward their national conventions this month.

But racial tensions are clearly rising. A June survey by the Pew Research Center found that only 46 percent of whites surveyed thought that race relations were generally good, a sharp drop from the 66 percent who held that opinion in June 2009, shortly after Mr. Obama took office. For blacks, the corresponding decline — to 34 percent last month from 59 percent in 2009 — was even steeper.

The same Pew survey found that about three-quarters of African-Americans thought that blacks in their communities were treated less fairly by the police than were whites; a bare 35 percent of whites felt the same.

In the hours after the Dallas ambush, stunned officials and civic leaders pleaded for citizens to repair the rips in the nation’s social fabric.

“Our profession is hurting,” said the Dallas police chief, David O. Brown, who is African-American. “Dallas officers are hurting. We are heartbroken. There are no words to describe the atrocity that occurred to our city. All I know is that this must stop, this divisiveness between our police and our citizens.”

The Rev. Bryan Carter echoed him at a Friday memorial service for the fallen officers, saying: “We refuse to hate each other. We commit to pray together.”
 

President Obama, speaking on Friday from Warsaw, where he was attending a two-day NATO summit meeting, said of the police, “Today is a wrenching reminder of the sacrifices they make for us.” He called the attack a “vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement.”

In a presidential race in which racial and ethnic divisions have become an issue, both Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump canceled political events on Friday. Mr. Trump called the events in Texas “an attack on our country.”

“It is a coordinated, premeditated assault on the men and women who keep us safe,” Mr. Trump said in a statement. “We must restore law and order.”

Mrs. Clinton wrote on Twitter on Friday, “I mourn for the officers shot while doing their sacred duty to protect peaceful protesters, for their families and all who serve with them.”

But on social media, there were salutes to the sniper, blame of the news media for dividing the nation, charges that black protesters had spread hysteria, calls for love, fear of civil war and laments that the country is headed toward an unbridgeable divide.

ভুস্বর্গ কাশ্মীর যাবেন কিভাবে, ঘুরবেন কোথায়, খরচ কত (পুরো গাইডলাইন)

ভুস্বর্গ কাশ্মীর যাবেন কিভাবে, ঘুরবেন কোথায়, খরচ কত        (পুরো গাইডলাইন)

কাশ্মীর হিমালয়ান পর্বতমালার সবচেয়ে বড় উপত্যকা ,কাশ্মীরকে বলা হয় ভূস্বর্গ । মোগল বাদশাহ জাহাঙ্গীর কাশ্মীরকে প্রথম তুলনা করেছিলেন স্বর্গের সঙ্গে। তাঁর আকুল আকাঙ্ক্ষা ছিল কাশ্মীরের তৃণভূমিতে মৃত্যুবরণ করার। তিনি ফার্সি ভাষায় বলেছিলেন,
‘আগার ফেরদৌস বে-রোহী যামীন আস্ত্। হামীন আস্ত্, হামীন আস্ত্, হামীন আস্ত্।
অর্থাৎ পৃথিবীতে কোনো বেহেশত থেকে থাকে, তাহলে তা এখানে, এখানে, এখানে।

মোঘল সম্রাটরা দিল্লীর গ্রীষ্মের তাপদাহ থেকে নিস্তার পেতে অবকাশ যাপনের জন্য ছুটে আসতেন কাশ্মীরে। চশমাশাহী, পরিমহল, শালিমার, নিশাত, ভেরি নাগ ইত্যাদি তারই স্বাক্ষ্য বহন করছে।
শুধু কি মোগল বাদশারা ? বর্তমানে সমস্ত পৃথিবী থেকেই ভ্রমণপিপাসু মানুষেরা ভূস্বর্গ কাশ্মীর দেখার জন্য প্রতিনিয়ত ছুটে আসেন এখানে ।।
 তো চলুন আমরা জানার বুঝার চেষ্টা করি বাংলাদেশ থেকে এই ভুস্বর্গে আমরা কিভাবে সহজে এবং কম খরচে  ঘুরে আসতে পারি ।

কাশ্নীর যাবার উপযুক্ত সময় কখন : 

কাশ্মীর ঘোরার উপযুক্ত সময় এপ্রিল থেকে অক্টোবর পর্যন্ত। তবে কাশ্মীরের পুরো রুপ দেখতে চাইলে আপনাকে অন্তত তিনবার যেতে হবে।
‪এপ্রিল থেকে মে বসন্তকালঃ‬ এই সময় ফুলে ভরা ভ্যালী। টিউলিপ ফুলও দেখতে পারবেন। আর শীতের পরপরই তাই Snow ও অনেক। ‪
সেপ্টেম্বর থেকে অক্টোবর শরৎকালঃ‬ এই সময়ে Snow কিছুটা কম থাকবে। তবে উপরের দিকে পাওয়া যাবে। যেমন, গুলমার্গ গন্ডোলার ২য় ফেজে, সোনামার্গের থাজিওয়াস হিমবাহে। এই সময় ফল পাওয়া যাবে। গাছে গাছে আপেল ঝুলে থাকবে। আর তার সাথে চিনার গাছের রঙ্গিন রুপ।
‎ডিসেম্বর থেকে ফেব্রুয়ারি শীতকালঃ‬ এই সময়ে দেখবেন সাদা শুভ্র পাহাড়। চারিদিকে শুধু Snow, snow & snow. আর Snow fall তো আছেই। তবে শীতকালে অসুবিধাও অনেক। শীতের অনেক প্রস্তুতি নিতে হবে, রাস্তা-ঘাট বন্ধ থাকে ফলে অনেক জায়গায় যেতেই পারবেন না। এমন কি আপনার আটকে পড়ার চান্স অনেক বেশী।
তাই সবদিক বিবেচনা করলে এবং আপনি যদি একবার যেতে চান, তাহলে এপ্রিল-মে উপযুক্ত সময়। ‪

বাংলাদেশ থেকে কাশ্মীর যাবো কিভাবে ? 

প্রথমে ট্রেনে কিভাবে যেতে হবে সেটা বলি , ট্রেনে যেতে চাইলে আপনাকে ঢাকা থেকে কলকাতা কলকাতা থেকে জম্মু যেতে হবে এবং সেখান থেকে গাড়ী করে শ্রীনগর।
কলকাতা থেকে জম্মু যাওয়ার দুটি ট্রেন আছে। হিমগিরি ও জম্মু তাওয়াই, হিমগিরি সপ্তাহে ৩ দিন (মঙ্গল, শুক্র ও শনিবার) রাত ১১:৫০ টায় হাওড়া থেকে জম্মুর উদ্দেশ্যে ছেড়ে যায়। সময় লাগে ৩৫ ঘন্টা ৩৫ মিনিট। আর জম্মু তাওয়াই প্রতিদিন চললেও সময় একটু বেশী লাগে।
অনেকে আবার ট্রেনে দিল্লী গিয়ে আগ্রার তাজমহল এগুলো ঘুরে কাশ্মীর যায় সেক্ষেত্রে আপনি দিল্লী চলে যান সেখানে ঘুরে তারপর জম্মুর এভেইলেভেল ট্রেন পাবেন ।। কলকাতা থেকে দিল্লি যাবার ট্রেন সবসময়ই পাবেন ।।
কলকাতা থেকে জম্মু পর্যন্ত নন এসি স্লিপার ১৫০০-১৬০০/- বাংলাদেশী টাকায় আর এসি ৩৩০০-৩৫০০/-টাকা পড়বে। এরপর জম্মু থেকে শ্রীনগর গাড়ীতে ৬ জনের দল হলে পার হেড ৬০০-৮০০/- টাকায় হয়ে যাবে। জম্মু থেকে শ্রীনগর যেতে সময় লাগবে ৮-১০ ঘন্টা।
ট্রেনের টিকেট দেশের যেকোন ট্রাভেল এজেন্সি থেকে অগ্রিম কেটে রাখতে পারেন অথবা গিয়েও কাটতে পারেন যেমন আপনার খুশি ।।
এবার আসি বিমানে যারা যেতে চান তারা কি করবেন 
কাশ্মীর যেতে হলে ঢাকা থেকে আন্তর্জাতিক বিমানে প্রথম যেতে হবে দিল্লি ইন্ধিরা গান্ধী আন্তর্জাতিক বিমানবন্দরে সেখান থেকে শ্রীনগর। অথবা ঢাকা থেকে কলকাতা যাবেন ট্রেনে বা বাসে  পরে সেখান থেকে ডোমেস্টিক বিমানে জম্মু অথবা শ্রীনগর বিমানবন্দরে যাওয়া যাবে। কলকাতা থেকে সরাসরি শ্রীনগরে কোনো ফ্লাইট নেই তাই, দিল্লি হয়ে যেতে হয়।

বিমানের টিকেট শ্রীনগর পর্যন্ত ৮০০০/- ১৫,০০০/- টাকা বিভিন্ন মৌসুমের উপর নির্ভর করবে। ‪তবে বিমান খরচ কমানোর সবচেয়ে ভালো বুদ্ধি হলো বাংলাদেশের কোন ট্রাভেল এজেন্সি দিয়ে যত আগে সম্ভব ১/২ মাস আগে বিমানের টিকেট কেটে রাখা এতে সস্তায় বিমানের টিকেট পাওয়া যায় ।
#‎কোন_স্থল_বন্দর_দিয়ে_ঢুকবেনঃ‬
দর্শনা বা বেনাপোল দিয়ে ঢোকায় ভাল হবে।

১।বেনাপোল (বেনাপোল-পেট্রাপোল) : ঢাকা থেকে যেকোন বাসে পৌছে যান সরাসরি বেনাপোল । সীমান্তে দুই দেশের ইমিগ্রেশন পেরিয়ে আরেকটি অটোরিকশায় ২০ রুপি নেবে বনগাঁও রেলস্টেশন পর্যন্ত। বনগাঁও থেকে কলকাতার ট্রেন পাওয়া যায় প্রায় প্রতি ঘণ্টায়ই। টিকেট হবে ২০-৩০ রুপি।
এছাড়া গ্রিনলাইন শ্যামলী সহ বেশকিছু বাস সার্ভিস সরাসরি কলকাতা পর্যন্ত যায় ।।
ট্রেনেও ঢাকা থেকে যেতে পারেন সরাসরি কলকাতা ভাড়া পড়বে ৬৫০ টাকার মতো ।। কমলাপুর বা চিটাগাং স্টেশনে টিকেট পাবেন ।
কলকাতা হয়ে যাওয়াটা বেস্ট কারণ কলকাতাটাও দেখা হয়ে গেলো :)
২। দর্শনা - গেদে দিয়ে যদি যেতে চান তাহলে প্রথমে দর্শনা হল্ট স্টেশনে যেতে হবে। এখান থেকে চেকপোস্ট ৫ কিঃমিঃ এর মত। আপনি অটোরিকশা বা ভ্যানে চলে যান। ভারতের দিকের চেকপোস্ট গেদে রেল স্টেশনেই। এখান থেকে ১ ঘন্টা ৩০ মিঃ পরপর ট্রেন আছে। ভাড়া শেয়ালদহ পর্যন্ত ৩০ রুপি ও দমদম জং ২৫ রুপি। আপনি যদি বিমানে শ্রীনগর যান তাহলে দমদম নামবেন আর ট্রেনে গেলে শিয়ালদহ।

সীমান্ত পেরিয়ে আপনার ডলারগুলো রুপিতে কনভার্ট করে নিবেন তবে কনভার্ট করার আগে অনলাইনে রেটটা জেনে নিবেন ।।

থাকার ব্যবস্হা ? :
এবার দেখি থাকার ব্যবস্হা কি , থাকার জন্য প্রচুর হোটেল পাবেন কাশ্মীরে ।।
সাধারণ মানের ব্যাচেলার থাকার জন্য হোটেল ৫০০-৬০০ টাকার মাঝে পাবেন ।। আর ফ্যামিলির স্ট্যান্ডার্ট হোটেল ১২০০-১৫০০ রুপির ভিতরে পাবেন । এর চেয়ে দামী দামী হোটেল পাবেন ।। আপনার বাজেট ও পছন্দ অনুযায়ী নিয়ে নিন হোটেল ।।

কাশ্মীকে কোথায় কোথায় ঘুরবেন : 

কাশ্মীর পুরোটাই ভ্রমণপিপাসুদের জন্য স্বর্গ ।। তারপরও ভিন্ন ভিন্ন লোকেশনে বেশ কিছু টুরিস্ট স্পটের তালিকা দিলাম ।
‬ ১। শ্রীনগরে- মোঘল গার্ডেন, টিউলিপ গার্ডেন, ডাল লেক ও নাগিন লেকে শিকারা রাইড, হযরত বাল মসজিদ।
২। গুলমার্গেঃ গন্ডোলা (ক্যাবল কার), গলফ কোর্স, বাবা ঋষির মাজার,আফারওয়াত পিক, সেন্ট ম্যারী চার্চ।
৩। পেহেলগামঃ লিদার নদী, বেতাব ভ্যালী, আরু ভ্যালী, চন্দন বাড়ী এবং ঘোড়ায় ট্রেকিং করে পেহেলগাম ভিউপয়েন্ট, মিনি সুইজারল্যান্ড খ্যাত বাইসারান, ধাবিয়ান, কাশ্মীর ভ্যালী ভিউপয়েন্ট, কানিমার্গ, Waterfall, তুলিয়ান ভ্যালী ইত্যাদি। পায়ে হেঁটেও যাওয়া যায়। তবে বৃষ্টি হলে রাস্তা অনেক পিচ্ছিল থাকে। আর তাছাড়া ঘোড়ায় চড়লে একটু Adventure ও হয়।
৪। সোনামার্গ ঃ প্রধানত থাজিওয়াস হিমবাহ। এছাড়া সিন্ধ নদী, Waterfall, বাজরাঙ্গী ভাইজান ও রাম তেরে গঙ্গা মেরে ছবির স্যুটিং স্পট। ‪
এবার আমরা দেখি এই প্রধান স্পটগুলো ঘুরে দেখার জন্য কিভাবে প্লান করা যেতে পারে
দিন-১ঃ শ্রীনগর
দিন-২ঃ পেহেলগাম (পেহেলগামে রাতে থাকবেন)
দিন-৩ঃ পেহেলগাম  (পেহেলগাম দেখা শেষ করে শ্রীনগরে আবারও ফিরে আসবেন)
দিন-৪ঃ গুলমার্গ  (গুলমার্গ দেখে শ্রীনগরে ফিরে আসবেন)
দিন-৫ঃ সোনামার্গ (রাতে সোনামাগার্গের হাউজ বোটে থাকবেন)
এভাবে প্লান করলে আপনি ৫ দিনে মোটামুটি কভার করে ফেলতে পারবেন :) তবে আমি শুধুমাত্র একটা গাইডলাইন দিয়ে দিলাম আপনি আপনার মতো কাস্টমাইজ করে নিতেপারেন ।
সব জায়গাতেই রিজার্ভ গাড়ী নিতে হবে আপনাকে চারজন বসার মতো গাড়ীগুলো ১২০০-১৫০০ নিবে এর চেয়ে বড়গুলো ২-৩ হাজার নিবে আপনি যাচাই করে দাম দর করে গাড়ী ঠিক করবেন ,কিন্তু এরপরও কথা আছে কাশ্মীরে এক জোনের গাড়ী আরেকজোন পর্যন্ত আপনাকে নিয়ে যাবে কিন্তু টুরিস্ট প্লেসগুলো দেখার জন্য আবার গাড়ী নিতে হবে ওখানকার যেমন  পেহেলগাম ও সোনামার্গে রিজার্ভ গাড়ীতে যাওয়ার পর আবারও ওখানকার গাড়ী ভাড়া করতে হবে। যেমন পেহেলগামে থেকে আরু ভ্যালী ও চন্দনবাড়ী যেতে ভাড়া ১৬০০ রুপি। পেহেলগামে ৬ পয়েন্ট (পেহেলগাম ভিউপয়েন্ট, ধাবিয়ান, বাইসারান, কানিমার্গ, কাশ্মীর ভ্যালী ভিউ পয়েন্ট, waterfall) ঘোড়ায় প্রতিজনের ১৫০০-২০০০ রুপি। এদিকে সোনামার্গ থেকে থাজিওয়াস হিমবাহ গাড়ী ভাড়া ২৫০০- ৩৫০০/- রুপি।
কি বুঝে গেলো ব্যাপারটা ?

কাশ্মীরে ঘুরে আসতে খরচ কেমন হবে 

সত্যি বলতে খরচটা নির্ভর করে আপনার উপরে আপনি কতটা খরুচে বা বিলাসীতা প্রিয় এর উপর ।। তারপরও আমি একটা আইডিয়া দিয়ে দিচ্ছি ,এখান থেকে আপনি ভালো আইডিয়া পাবেন ।‬
একটা রাফ হিসেব দেই
১। বাংলাদেশ -কলকাতা (আসা যাওয়া)=ট্রেনে ঢাকা টু কলকাতা ৬৫০ টাকা করে আসা যাওয়া রাফ হিসেব ১৫০০ টাকা ।। অথবা বাসেও বর্ডারে গিয়ে সেখান থেকে কলতাকা চলে যেতে পারেন ।
২। কলকাতা- জম্মু= (ট্রেন+ খাওয়া)- ১৬০০+৬৫০=২২৫০x২= ৪৫০০ টাকা আসা যাওয়া
৩। জম্মু- শ্রীনগর= ৭৫০/-x২= ১৫০০/- আসা যাওয়া ।।
৪। কাশ্মীরে (সবকিছু) = ২০,০০০ টাকা ,থাকা খাওয়া ঘুরাঘুরি প্রতিজন ।

তো রাফ হিসেব করলে আপনার বাজেট ২৫+ হাজার টাকায় ঘুরে আসতে পারবেন ।। এটা একটা রাফ হিসেব খরচ বাড়তেও পারে আবার আপনি চাইলে কমতেও পারে নির্ভর করে আপনার উপর ।। আমি শুধু একটা ধারণা দিলাম ।


এবার কিছু দরকারী টিপস শেয়ার করি 
‬ ১। কাশ্মীর পর্যটন এলাকা। এখানে সবকিছুর দাম বেশী চাইবে। তাই যাই করুন না কেনো, দরদাম করতে ভুলবেন না। তবে ভদ্রভাবে কথা বলবেন অবশ্যই।
২। এখানকার খাবারে মশলা বেশী থাকায় আমরা বাংলাদেশীরা খেতে সমস্যা হয়। ভাতের দামও অনেক বেশী । তাই রুটি খেলে খরচ কম হবে এবং খাওয়াও যাবে।
৩। সন্ধ্যা ৮টার পর হোটেলের বাইরে অযথা ঘোরাফেরা করবেন না। আর হ্যাঁ, কেনাকাটা করতে চাইলে রাত ৮ টার মধ্যেই সারুন। কারন রাত ৮ টার পর দোকান বন্ধ হয়ে যায়।
৪। যেখানেই যান পাসপোর্টসহ প্রয়োজনীয় কাগজপত্র সঙ্গে রাখুন।
৫। কাশ্মীর মুসলিম প্রধান (৯৯%)। তাই মুসলিম হলে পরিচয় দিলে সুবিধা পাবেন। আর একটি কথা কাশ্মীরীরা বাংলাদেশ ক্রিকেট দলকে খুব পছন্দ করে এবং সাকিব আল হাসানের খুবই ভক্ত। তাই বাংলাদেশী পরিচয় দিন নির্দিধায়। ‪
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DiCaprio wins best actor Oscar for 'The Revenant'

Leonardo DiCaprio holds the Oscar for Best Actor for the movie "The Revenant" at the 88th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 28, 2016. 

Reuters, Los Angeles

Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar on Sunday, taking home the best actor statuette for his role in revenge movie "The Revenant."
DiCaprio, 41, had been nominated four times previously for an acting Oscar over a career spanning 25 years. He was the favorite to clinch the Academy Award this year for his grueling portrayal of a fur trapper left for dead in an icy wilderness after being mauled by a bear.
In a fight for survival, his "Revenant" character Hugh Glass treks through snow-covered forests, gets swept away in a waterfall, sleeps inside the carcass of a disemboweled horse and hungrily eats raw bison liver before making it back to his camp.
DiCaprio, a bachelor with a string of supermodel girlfriends, has matured into one of the world's most admired and popular actors, as well as a champion of environmental causes ranging from marine reserves to the rights of indigenous people.
In his acceptance speech, DiCaprio, who received a standing ovation, said: "Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted.DiCaprio added: "Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet to find snow. Climate change is real, it is happening now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together, and we need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters and the big corporations but who speak for all of humanity."
DiCaprio had already won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild trophies for the role, which transformed the heartthrob from movies like "Titanic" and "Romeo + Juliet" into a greasy-haired 1820s fur trapper who barely speaks after the bear ripped his throat.
DiCaprio won his first Oscar nomination in 1994 for his supporting role as a mentally challenged boy in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape."
His romantic "Romeo + Juliet" and "Titanic" roles went unrecognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and it was another 10 years before his obsessive-compulsive Howard Hughes in "The Aviator" brought a second Oscar nomination.
Nominations for 2006's "Blood Diamond" and 2013's "The Wolf of Wall Street" came and went without DiCaprio taking home the most coveted trophy in show business.

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Academy Awards 2016: Highlights and Analysis

 

Producers Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust.Credit Patrick T. 

Melena Ryzik

Every journalist watching this is at least a little bit gladdened that “Spotlight” took home best pic.

Wesley Morris

To start with, I’m happy for this movie — and not because I worked at The Boston Globe for almost a dozen years. Every single thing about the movie is sneaky-good, except Mark Ruffalo’s meltdown, which is sneaky-bad. I like a movie that makes me mad but is so well-acted that what every actor does feels like something beyond acting. Sidney Lumet’s movies did that, too. This was the most important movie of the bunch — and it’s hard to give an Oscar to two savages stab-fighting in the snow, when there’s international crime being reported.

Melena Ryzik

The academy did well enough by its mission to present the best side of Hollywood to the rest of the world, at least with the available nominees. And the telecast producers took care of the rest by ending the show with Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” — and ignoring, on the same album, “Burn Hollywood Burn.”

Wesley Morris

And with that, we’re off to our respective pillows. Thanks for reading, everybody. We’ll see you next year, when #OscarsSoSomethingElse.

Anatomy of a Scene | ‘Spotlight’

Produced by By MEKADO MURPHY

Tom McCarthy narrates a sequence from “Spotlight.”

Credit Kimberley French/20th Century Fox

Leonardo DiCaprio won the Oscar for best actor for his work in “The Revenant.” This is his sixth Oscar nomination, but first win. Read our review of “The Revenant.”

Wesley Morris

Finally, Melena, our long national nightmare is over! Leonardo DiCaprio can appear in “Fast 8 Furious.”

Melena Ryzik

As one of the cars.

Wesley Morris

Electric, of course!

Melena Ryzik

I await the first backstage pic of Leo and Vice President Biden. He gave an almost politically polished speech, but he delivered it with the right note of authenticity.

Wesley Morris

True. And as on-brand as Jenny Beavan’s outfit. The “it’s his time” conversation really drove me nuts. He was great in a headache-inducing movie. Grunting, impaling and all. “Wolf of Wall Street” will be the one that got away, far as I’m concerned.

Best Actress: Brie Larson for ‘Room’

Brie Larson won the Oscar for best actress for her work in “Room.” This is her first Oscar nomination. Read our review of “Room.”

Melena Ryzik

As expected, Brie Larson wins. I like her composure. This is the confidence on stage that comes from surviving being a child actor. And a would-be teen singing star.

Wesley Morris

During a commercial break, it looked like she was tearfully hugging the survivors from Lady Gaga’s performance. Her likability might soon surpass the Jennifer Lawrence zone.

Melena Ryzik

I’m seeing on Twitter some people who wanted more emotion from her speech but come on, at this point in the night, all my points go to brisk.

Wesley Morris

I must say, though, I feel bad for Charlotte Rampling. She gave my favorite of those five performances. I don’t like fearlessness as an attribute of actors, but sometimes it’s apt. And the way Ms. Rampling has been embracing the iciness and hauteur of the women she plays — for decades — is a rare, confident strength. She knows the camera will find what she’s doing. The way she says “still” in “45 Years” is worth two paragraphs of pain. Of course, what makes her a very good actress also, this year, made her a regrettable spokesperson regarding the pain of others. Crazy to say her ungenerous comments on non-white actors hurt her chances to be where Ms. Larson is standing. But the risk of practicing froideur is that it can leave you in the cold.

Backstage: The ‘Amy’ Filmmakers

The director and writer of “Amy,” which just won best documentary feature, were asked how they felt about Amy Winehouse’s father taking sharp aim at their film.

“At the end of the day, the film is about Amy, and she became a bit of a punching bag, a bit of a bad gag in the press at the end,” said James Gay-Rees, the film’s producer. “Our job wasn’t to blame anybody, our job was to tell people how great Amy Winehouse was. And that should be enough.”

The director, Asif Kapadia, said he hoped that the film would give people pause before they attacked troubled celebrities, the way the press, and the public, went after Ms. Winehouse. He said he hoped that next time, someone would stop and think before sending “the horrible nasty tweet.”

Asked about diversity, Mr. Kapadia said the problem wasn’t limited to Hollywood.

“How many brown people in this room?” he asked the hundreds of largely white reporters assembled. “A few people here, a few people there. I think that’s the question for everyone.”

Best Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu for ‘The Revenant’

Alejandro G. Iñárritu won the Oscar for best director for “The Revenant.” This is his his second best-director win in a row. Read our review of “The Revenant.”

Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Wesley Morris

Well there’s no shock there. Alejandro G. Iñárritu does it again. He’s the new Spielberg. Or something. I mean, he’s now powerful enough to stop the band from playing him off with “Flight of the Valkyries.” Apocalypse later, apparently.

Melena Ryzik

And he did it with a speech about ending racism, which was well-intentioned if not entirely emotionally fulfilling. (Which is also how I felt about “The Revenant.”)

Alejandro G. Iñárritu directing Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Revenant.”Credit Kimberley French/20th Century Fox

Anatomy of a Scene | ‘The Revenant’

Produced by By MEKADO MURPHY

Alejandro G. Inarritu narrates a scene from “The Revenant,” featuring Leonardo DiCaprio.

The Ennio Morricone Sound

The composer Ennio Morricone, who won an Oscar tonight for the “Hateful Eight” score, has been nominated plenty of times, for his work for “The Mission,” “The Untouchables” and several other films. He even won an honorary Academy Award in 2006. But he may be best known for his spaghetti western compositions, especially the music for “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Wah wah waaah.

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Vice President Joe Biden Takes the Stage, Lady Gaga Performs

Lady Gaga performed.

Vice President Biden took to the stage to introduce Lady Gaga, and the crowd went wild.

“I’m trying to find the teleprompter,” Mr. Biden as members of the audience got to their feet.

He waved them away: “I’m the least qualified man here tonight.”

Mr. Biden introduced Lady Gaga, who was performing the song “Til It Happens to You,” which is about sexual assault. He addressed the crowd and asked viewers to take a pledge: “I will intervene in situations when consent has not or cannot be given.

Let’s change the culture,” he added.

Melena Ryzik

Vice President Biden helped write the original Violence Against Women Act. And the people who stood surrounding Lady Gaga are apparently real-life survivors of sexual assault. Who would’ve predicted, a few months ago, that the most political, socially powerful moments of Oscar night would belong to Vice President Joe Biden and his “good friend” Lady Gaga?

Wesley Morris

I know. He just gives a rousingly Bidenesque speech in support of justice for sexual assault survivors then throws it to Lady Gaga who gives a rousingly Gagaesque performance of “Til It Happens to You.” It’s been some month for her as a paragon of emotionalism. At the end, she clutches hands with the survivors who surround her big white, Elton John machine and the room stands and applauds. Another bowl of tears from me.

Melena Ryzik

Even though she didn’t win, she can take some solace in the fact that she had one of the show’s few indelible moments.

Wesley Morris

No, she didn’t! That perfectly flavorless, embarrassingly deployed Sam Smith song did. And while he was at it, he tried to take credit for being the first openly gay winner. Nice try! But he did dedicate it to the L.G.B.T. community. Which was pretty Gaga of him.

Best Original Song: ‘Writing’s on the Wall’ From ‘Spectre’

Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith.

The Oscar for original song goes to “Writing’s On The Wall” from “Spectre,” by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith.

Backstage: The ‘Inside Out’ Team

Pete Docter, who won the Oscar for best-animated feature, for “Inside Out,” which he wrote and directed, said the most rewarding feedback has come from teachers and parents, especially those who had special-needs kids.

“We’ve heard from a lot of folks who have said this has given them a vocabulary to speak about emotions for the first time,” Mr. Docter said. “We’re so thankful that we’re able to contribute in that way.”

And Jonas Rivera, who produced the film, said his favorite moment in the awards campaign was meeting the guys from “Straight Outta Compton,” especially Ice Cube.

“I introduced myself to him as the producer of ‘Inside Out,’ not knowing what I’d get,’” Mr. Rivera said. “And he said, “Oh man, that movie was dope.’ And that was a pretty good moment for me.”

 

Best Original Score: ‘The Hateful Eight’

The Oscar for original score goes to “The Hateful Eight.”

Ennio Morricone.

Backstage: An Audible Gasp When Mark Rylance Wins

Mark Rylance hugged Patricia Arquette backstage after he won the Oscar for best supporting actor.

When the stage great and “Bridge of Spies” spy Mark Rylance won the Oscar for best supporting actor, an audible gasp went up from the Dolby Theater. Backstage, he was asked how he felt about having “outpunched Rocky.”

“The thing about competing as actors, and I know it’s necessary to make a show out of it, but all of those actors are so good,” Mr. Rylance said. “I feel I’m more a spokesman when I win than somebody better than all the nominees. I don’t take it too seriously.”

Not only were his fellow nominees so good, he said, but others who had not been nominated, too; among them, he said, Idris Elba (“Beasts of No Nation”) and Paul Dano (“Love & Mercy”).

On the subject of diversity, Mr. Rylance said, he thought Chris Rock had made a positive impact on the conversation. “Recent revelations have shown us just how dominated this storytelling form of our culture are by men,” he said. “I hope that this awareness that’s been raised very humorously by Chris tonight, and angrily by other people, justifiably so, continues on. I hope that this will do a little bit more to tell the story and diversify the stories that we listen to and watch.”

 

Best Foreign Language Film: ‘Son of Saul’

The Oscar for foreign language film goes to “Son of Saul.” Read our review.

László Nemes.Credit Patrick T. Fallon for The New York Times

Anatomy of a Scene | ‘Son of Saul’

Produced by By MEKADO MURPHY

Laszlo Nemes narrates a sequence from “Son of Saul.”

In ‘Son of Saul,’ Laszlo Nemes Expands the Language of Holocaust Films

By RACHEL DONADIO

Mr. Nemes, the movie’s director, says that in telling his death-camp story, he rejected the conventional method of finding an uplifting tale amid the horror.

Chris Rock Says Hollywood Helped Sell $65,000 Worth of Girl Scout Cookies

Chris Rock’s cookie earnings reached $65,243 in a matter of minutes.

It looks like Chris Rock’s effort to turn the Oscars into a giant platform for the bulk sale of junior mints has paid off: On behalf of his two daughters, he sent a Girl Scout troop through the aisles, and shook down Tina Fey, Charlize Theron and others for some cash pledges. Mindy Kaling was one of the celebrities who indulged.

Last year, the troop made $600 and finished second in its Girl Scout cookie sales competition, Mr. Rock said. This year, the group apparently did a little better: Mr. Rock revealed that $65,243 worth of cookies were sold.

Anna M. Chávez, the chief executive of Girl Scouts of the USA, seemed pleased.