Marking his first visit to Bangladesh, Intel Corporation Chairman Craig Barrett announced one of the most comprehensive deployments to date of the Intel World Ahead Program, a global effort to provide people in developing countries with the benefits of better, faster access to information and communications technology (ICT).

Bangladesh is struggling to contain outbreaks of water-borne disease as waters recede following major flooding and monsoon rains. Health spokesman Aisha Akhter says at least 18,300 people suffering from diarrhoea have been admitted to hospitals across the country in the past eight days because of a lack of clean drinking water.

As catastrophic floods worsen in Bangladesh, a pilot forecasting program is being used to warn thousands of residents in selected flood-prone regions. The forecasting system was designed by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Georgia Institute of Technology.

The death toll rose Friday to at least 186 as heavy monsoon rains triggered floods across a wide swath of northern India and Bangladesh, destroying crops, submerging roads and displacing 19 million people, officials said.

The World Bank has approved a US$16 million credit for Bangladesh from the International Development Association (IDA), the Bank’s concessionary arm, to support the Government’s efforts to minimize the threat and risk of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI).

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been detained by security forces in Dhaka, while earlier she had been charged with corruption and murder in courts.

Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) has been selected by Orascom Telecom Holdings to supply, install and commission network radio equipment for the access network of its Bangladeshi subsidiary, Banglalink. This will be the first time that Ericsson and Orascom Telecom have worked together.

The World Bank approved on May 30th additional financing of US$15 million to the Government of Bangladesh, designed to support poor rickshaw-pullers that have been adversely affected by a ban on Non-Motorized Transport (NMT) on certain roads in Dhaka, the nation's capital.

The World Bank approved on May 24th additional financing of US$8 million to the Social Investment Program Project in Bangladesh, a community driven program supporting village level infrastructure development, social assistance, and income generating activities.

A 15-member Indian cricket team led by captain Rahul Dravid arrived Monday in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, pledging to play a hard game in the limited-overs and test series.

Amnesty International says the human rights situation in two South Asian countries - Sri Lanka and Bangladesh - has deteriorated in recent years. The human rights watchdog says that in Bangladesh people promoting human rights are under attack, while in Sri Lanka an escalated ethnic conflict has resulted in the killings and disappearances of many civilians. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, where Amnesty has two reports.