Full Coverage: Bangladesh

28.06.2006 Bangladesh is increasingly tornbetween economic progress and insecurity, law and impunity, Islamism and secular politics, violence and democracy. Liz Philipson portrays a troubled country approaching its next major electoral test.

26.06.2006 Proshanta Karmakar Buddha's exhibition of photographs tracing a day in the life of at Gallery Chitrak. This display marks the poet and women's rights activist's 95th birthday on June 20.

26.06.2006 Mandi village, six kilometres from the district town, is now buzzing with working women. About one hundred and twenty non-literate, poor women coming from faraway areas produce garments in a tin-shed room. Today they are self-reliant, earning Tk 150 to Tk 200 a day by working for six to eight hours.

26.06.2006 An initiative by some youth in Bangladesh has raised great hopes among townspeoeple in Mymensingh. Their success in an anti-drug campaign has drawn attention of all including local public representatives and police officials.

26.06.2006 Bangladesh's Health and Family Welfare Minister, Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, said the country would be able to eliminate filaria and kalazar by the year 2015.

23.06.2006 For the second consecutive year, Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL) has come to the aid of HIV/AIDS patients.The bank, as part of its corporate social responsibility, has initiated a programme titled 'Caring patients living with AIDS' under which the HIV-positive people receive medical support and food supplements.

22.06.2006 Bangladesh has successfully completed three Polio National Immunization Days (NIDs) with 96 per cent of children under five being reached through the three rounds, says a press release.

19.06.2006 The World Bank has approved a US$111.5 million credit to strengthen the country's network of about 4,500 Union Parishads to respond to community needs and deliver services through a transparent fiscal transfer system.

16.06.2006 Flood preparation, including adequate provisioning of emergency supplies, their fair distribution and management of the entire relief efforts, all assume critical importance in decreasing human sufferings in flooded areas and help in their recovery from floods.

13.06.2006 Good cause, good entertainment, good debate - an afternoon for Bangladeshi garment workers on 2 July, in London, offers a "bilingual experimental dance drama on the life of a garment worker" followed by panel on the industry in Bangladesh with representatives from government, industry, trade unions, academia and NGOs.

12.06.2006 Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI), at a meeting under the chairmanship of its President M. A Momen held in the DCCI Auditorium on yesterday to review the Proposed National Budget, 2006-2007 welcomed the budget as a positive one to achieve the targets of SME development and poverty reduction as enshrined in the PRSP.

06.06.2006 Knowledge on reproductive health among more than 100,000 adolescent boys and girls in 17 districts and four metropolitan cities of Bangladesh has been raised.Adolescents were imparted training on health risk, different health issues and advocacy.

06.06.2006 Children from across Bangladesh have demanded quality health service for them through ensuring school based health services, supplying nutritious tiffin, make doctors available and adequate stock of medicines in the hospitals.

05.06.2006 The lingering power crisis is creating severe pressure on the country's economy. However, a proposal of the Power Division -- suggesting measures for energy efficiency and alternative energy generation -- is lying idle with the Planning Commission for the past several years.

05.06.2006 Rural infrastructure development, particluarly improvement in road, telecommunication and electricity, has increased livelihoods opportunities for the rural citizens in Northern Bangladesh, concluded the participants in a recent workshop organised by Care Bangladesh.

02.06.2006 A youth camp on reproductive health ended at Sitakunda in Chittagong, Bangladesh yesterday.UNFPA under its Reproductive Health Initiative for Youth in Asia (RHIYA) project and Young Power in Social Action (YPSA) jointly organised the camp at YPSA Human Resource Development Centre.

01.06.2006 Only 4.0 per cent households in the rural areas of Bangladesh can afford an optimal diet and about 39 per cent children under five years of age there are stunted.