Full Coverage: Bangladesh

30.12.2005 The Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 was one of the greatest natural disasters; it was also the first internet-mediated natural disaster.

29.12.2005 Non-government organisation (NGO) ASA has taken up a microcredit programme of disbursing about Taka 58 crore among 1,00,977 people to alleviate poverty through income generating activities in Thakurgaon district during the current fiscal.

29.12.2005 After being in dither for over a week, the government finally yielded to fertiliser importersÂ’ demand, albeit partially, and decided to release Tk 66 crore in subsidy to the importers as their strike triggered a countrywide fertiliser crisis that threatened boro cultivation.

29.12.2005 Several hundred teachers of non-government primary school under the banner of Bangladesh Non-government Primary School Teachers' Association have passed the second consecutive day of their "fast unto death programme" demanding nationalisation of their schools and jobs.

27.12.2005 While powerful illegal internet telephony operators keep on draining out hundreds of crores taka each year, the government is delaying the process of awarding licence for VoIP operation on various pretexts ignoring a fresh recommendation of Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Authority (BTRC).

27.12.2005 The number of mobile subscribers in Bangladesh has increased from 4.0 million to 10.02 million registering a growth of nearly 150 per cent during the last one year after the announcement of new discount packages by the telecom operators.

27.12.2005 Bangladesh commerce minister Altaf Hossain Chowdhury on Monday said the country has asked the WTO to help prepare a list of products which will fall under the 3 percent exclusion list and will not enjoy duty free and quota free market access under the Hong Kong offer.

21.12.2005 This World Bank report examines the impacts of donor-supported programmes for maternal and child health, nutrition, and fertility in Bangladesh. It reports that under-five mortality has been reduced substantially since the 1990s, but malnutrition remains high.

21.12.2005 During a comparative study, conducted in 2001-2002, researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK examined how the structure and operation of a health system influences maternal health care provision and outcomes in Bangladesh, Russia, South Africa and Uganda.

20.12.2005 This document is a guideline for replicating the Village Phone program in a new country. infoDev along with several other partners, supported this publication.

20.12.2005 The draft Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Bill, 2005 is likely to be submitted to the Cabinet for approval within this week before it is tabled at the next Jatiya Sangsad session. The draft bill was sent to the Ministry of Law and Parliamentary Affairs for vetting last week.

20.12.2005 The UNDP in cooperation with donor partners will invest US$ 50 million equivalent to Tk 300 crore in local currency till 2009 in the Chittagong Hill Tracts to accelerate the pace of development in the region.

20.12.2005 The Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute has developed two varieties of summer onion — BARI-2 and BARI-3 and demonstrations showed good results in some of the north-western districts, said the officials.

20.12.2005 Arsenic enters Bangladeshi drinking water from soil near the surface rather than deep underground as thought, say researchers. The finding suggests that there is an unlimited supply of the poison to Bangladeshi water.

15.12.2005 The country witnessed six hundred percent export growth in
Information Technology (IT) sector during the last five years,
reports BSS.

15.12.2005 Country's telecom watchdog, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), plans to grant licence to Warid Telecom to enable it to start operation as the sixth mobile phone operator in Bangladesh, informed sources said.

15.12.2005 The country witnessed 600% export growth in Information Technology (IT) sector during the last five years.

12.12.2005 While India has been seen as an international "success story" in recent times despite the widespread agrarian crisis and collapse in employment generation, now it is the turn of Bangladesh to enjoy such international recognition. For nearly three decades now, the economy of Bangladesh has been growing at slightly more than 4 per cent, and per capita income growth even accelerated in the 1990s compared to the previous decades. In the first half of the 1990s, the growth rate accelerated to 2.4 per cent and further to 3.6 per cent in the second half of the decade.

08.12.2005 The European Commission Wednesday committed a fund worth 150 million euro for Bangladesh this year to accelerate poverty alleviation activities, Finance and Planning Minister M Saifur Rahman said, reports BDNEWS.

06.12.2005 Microsoft will train over 10,000 teachers and 200,000 students in information technology in Bangladesh in next three years and has already donated $100,000 to this end.