Full Coverage: Bangladesh

28.07.2005 President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed of Bangladesh has urged the people put in more efforts to create IT-knowledge based human resources and promote the prospective IT sector.

26.07.2005 Aiming to outline a new strategy for United Nations-backed development projects in Bangladesh, more than one hundred national experts and representatives of UN agencies wrapped up a series of roundtables and workshops today in Dhaka the capital, focused on helping the rural population to fight poverty.

25.07.2005 Floods in Bangladesh have claimed 15 lives, rendered 10,000 homeless and affected over a million people. Both the Ganga and the Brahmaputra rivers have breached the danger mark, overflowing into homes and farmland.

15.07.2005 Grameen Phone in Bangladesh has more than 3.5 million subscribers, with more than 115,000 phones in villages across the country.

08.07.2005 Hundreds of men, women and children hold a rally in Dhaka on the first White Band Day to remind world leaders of their promises to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to put an end to world poverty.

07.07.2005 Bangladesh Government has already acquired 232 acres of land in Kaliakoir of Gazipur district to set up an IT (Information Technology) Village.