Full Coverage: Bangladesh

28.11.2005 Bangladesh govt planning to introduce 'unified education system' at the secondary level.The system that intends to replace the existing compartmentalized methods of education---- students are allowed to take up science, commerce and humanities subjects at class nine--- with an unified education system at the secondary level from the next academic year.

25.11.2005 Religious extremism is threatening democratic institutions and freedoms in Bangladesh, and fomenting hatred and violence towards minority ethnic and faith communities, a group of mainly British MPs claimed this week as they established an international civil society network to monitor the country's progress towards compliance with international human rights standards.

23.11.2005 The world's largest summit held in the UN in New York only assessed the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from September 14 to 16. The MDGs are the targets set in the UN-designed development recipe for the developing countries of the world to attain within 2015 by addressing various underdeveloped sectors, such as poverty, education, health, nutrition, infant and maternal mortality, and environment

23.11.2005 Looking back at the recently-held SAARC-meet (South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation) Amit Baruah writes for The Hindu whether the seven nations can sink their differences and work together like the countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion.

17.11.2005 Mr.Junaid Ahmed, says in The Indian Express that the considered once the test case of development, Bangladesh has quietly undergone a major transformation. Bangladesh has eliminated the gender bias in primary and secondary education — achieving this MDG at a historic rate — and attained dramatic declines in infant and maternal mortality. Similarly, once considered a population time-bomb, Bangladesh has achieved one of the fastest declines in fertility rates in the world.

14.11.2005 Bangladesh cannot meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target on sanitation for all by 2010, if sanitation coverage is not raised by 9.5 percent a year, experts at a roundtable said. hey mention that though sanitation coverage achieved 7.5 percent in the early 90s in the country, it slowed down in the past decade.

09.11.2005 EDUCATION reforms are very necessary to address various issues in the education sector. At the same time it is also very important to deal with unacceptable levels of corruption in the education sector. Successive reports on the corruption scene in Bangladesh compiled by Transparency International (TI) found the education sector as being infested by most corruption, only next after the police administration. Anti-corruption measures in this sector have been overdue.

08.11.2005 MANILA, PHILIPPINES: ADB aims to help alleviate rural poverty in Bangladesh through a new US$42.5 million loan for an Agribusiness Development Project to stimulate commercial activities in the agriculture sector.To promote agribusiness investment and expansion, the project will provide a $36 million credit line that will allow about 28,000 small-scale agribusinesses throughout the country's rural areas to access loans ranging from $500 to $5,000 from reputable and experienced nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and wholesale banks.