Bangladesh Science & Technology News

President Zillur Rahman clicked open a redesigned website of bdnews24.com at Bangabhaban at around 1:30pm on Tuesday. The event, webcast live, was attended by bdnews24.com journalists and high officials. Bangladesh's first online newspaper, bdnews24.com, has come up not only with...

The Indian High Commission in Dhaka is introducing a new system for visa applicants -- 'E-token' from Nov 15. The system would allow applicants to confirm their date and location of submission of papers beforehand on the net, says a...

The government will pay five months' dues, July to November, under the recently approved pay scale within seven days, finance minister AMA Muhith said Monday. Until then, however, salaries for November will be disbursed according to the old scale, Muhith...

The case in which all money in the bank account of the Bulgarian Presidency was suddenly withdrawn by the Finance Ministry is clearly a technical mistake as it was described by Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov; President Parvanov has undeservedly called...

Pro-Choice America participated in a campaign that generated more than 97,000 signatures in opposition to the so-called Stupak amendment, named for its chief sponsor Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), an abortion-rights opponent. The language, added to the House healthcare bill, prohibits...

Butchers were preparing to unsheathe their knives for ritual slaughter on Saturday as bustling livestock markets, approved and otherwise, in capital Dhaka were attracting big crowds on Friday, last day before the Eid-ul-Azha.

Health minister AFM Ruhul Huq has called upon the big pharmaceutical companies to produce low-cost life-saving medicines and help maintain their supply. "It is necessary to refix the prices of life-saving medicines in such a way so that their supplies...

Syed Nahas Pasha, London Dhaka, Nov 25 (bdnews24.com)�A new UK-funded programme to improve women's life chances and tackle violence against women in South Asia was launched today, which is the international Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.