Barisal

[buhr-uh-sahl, bar-uh-sawl]

noun

1. a port city in S Bangladesh, on the Ganges River.

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Younger women, aged from 15-19 years, and women from urban slums and disaster-prone coastal regions such as Barisal and Khulna experienced even higher rates, of more than 80 percent, the survey added.

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China helped with two coal plants, in Barisal and Payra.

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Mr Hossain was born in Barisal, Bangladesh, and came to the UK in 1995.

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We started near Sealdah station, where my grandmother had stepped off the train from Barisal in 1946, with five boys and four steel trunks in tow.

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In his ancestral village of Dehergoti, near Barisal, Jagu’s psyche had somehow been tethered to his friends and his family.

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