Bangladesh, Health
Medical Centre Aims to Improve Life in Nowder, Biswanath
by st contributor
Tuesday 24th January 2012
Life for those in the Sylheti village of Nowder, Biswanath has recently been given a significant boost from the opening of a primary health care centre. The centre is a joint initiative of Gonoshasthaya Kendra, The HRA Foundation and its UK partner charity Friends of Nowder….
Tags: Arosh Ali,Bangladesh,Biswanath,Gonoshasthaya Kendra,HRA Foundation,Medical Centre,Nowder,Zafrulla Chowdhury
Read this articleDigital Bangladesh Launches “Doel” Laptops for Schools
by st editor
Wednesday 12th October 2011
Bangladesh State Telecom – Telephone Shilpa Sangstha – has launched a range Bangladesh-made low cost laptop computers running Google’s Android OS for schools and students. The manufacturer aims to build 10,000 of the laptops a month with the first on sale next week. The “Doel” range…
Tags: Android,Bangladesh,Computers,Dhaka,Doel,e-learning,Education,Google,Laptop,Linux,product launch,sheikh hasina,Shilpa Sangstha,Technology
Read this articleIndia Quake Shakes Bangladesh
by st editor
Tuesday 20th September 2011
A strong earthquake lasting 2 minutes shook Bangladesh on saturday evening. The quake felt in Dhaka measured 6.8 on the Richter scale and was centred in the the Indian state of Sikkim some 495 km away and while damage occurred no casualties have been reported. Thousands…
Tags: Bangladesh,damage,Dhaka,earthquake,India,quake,Sikkim
Read this articleMore Power for Bangladesh This Year
by st editor
Monday 30th May 2011
Bangladesh will spend even more this year to combat the chronic electrical power shortages in the country which impact both industry and homes. Bangladesh Power Development Board projects that over 12 lakh new domestic and industrial units are to be connected this year in a phased…
Tags: Ashuganj,Bangladesh,BPDB,Economy,electricity generation,growth,Power,power plant
Read this articleRussia to Build Nuclear Power for Bangladesh
by webminder
Thursday 24th February 2011
The Bangladesh Science, Information and Technology Ministry has signed a deal with Russia for the construction of two, 1000 Megawatt nuclear power plants. Part of the national drive to increase and improve electrical power production, the deal was signed in Dhaka by ICT Secretary Hawlander of…
Tags: Bangladesh,Electricity,Energy,Generator,Nuclear Power,power plant,Roopur
Read this articleSpanish Firm to Facilitate Power Import from India
by st contributor
Tuesday 22nd February 2011
The Bangladesh government has awarded a Spanish firm over Tk 1.0 billion project to build transmission line from Baharampur of India to Bheramara to import electricity from the neighbouring country. State-owned Power Grid Corporation of Bangladesh (PGCB) has recently inked a deal with the Spanish Cobra…
Tags: Baharampur,Bangladesh,Bheramara,Electricity,Energy,India,Power
Read this articleSingerkach Health Centre Update
by st contributor
Tuesday 28th December 2010
Members of the Singerkach Development Committee currently on site in Bangladesh report that the Sylhet Pouroshova engineers have now completed the extraction of soil on the health centre site and the samples are being tested. Once the results of the soil test have been approved final…