Full Coverage: Bangladesh

29.09.2005 Banglalink, a cell phone operator in the country, has introduced voice message service styled i'bubble that will enable all Banglalink subscribers to send a message as voice instead of text to all local mobile operators.

26.09.2005 The government of bangladesh is set to seek around $25 million soft loan to South Korea to improve its internet
infrastructure with a view to providing high speed
internet service across the country.

23.09.2005 Pallitathya, an innovative Mobile Help-Line programme via cell phones for underprivileged women in rural Bangladesh beat thirty other entries from all over the Asia-Pacific to win
this year's Gender and Information & Communication Technology (GICT) Award.

13.09.2005 The Human Development Report released by UNDP recently finds that Bangladesh has improved a lot in terms of human development and has increased its rankings remarkably. At the same time the country has also seen an increase in Islamic fundamentalism which was bought to the fore last month when nearly 500 bomb blasts simultaneously took place all over the country.

08.09.2005 In the last decade, the number of Indians living in poverty has gone down from 35 per cent to 26 per cent. But the fact that there has been little forward movement on key development indicators has ensured that India is stuck, for the second year in a row, at its ranking of 127 (out of 177 countries) on the Human Development Index (HDI).