Science & Technology

Govt to introduce online school admission system

The education ministry is set to introduce online application system for school admission to reduce harassment of admission-seekers and their guardians, ministry officials said. Thousands of children of school-going age and their guardians need to face harassment during collection and submission of admission forms every year.

Apple's App Store Reaches 2 Billion Downloads

Apple's App Store, which offers free and low-cost applications for its iPhone and iPod devices, reached an important milestone; offering 85,000 apps and logging over 2 billion downloads.

IPO subscription of GP begins

The subscription of Grameenphone's initial public offering (IPO), the largest of its kind in Bangladesh's capital market history, began nationwide this morning. The subscription will close Thursday for resident Bangladeshis, but will remain open for non-resident Bangladeshis until October 18. The IPO applications can be submitted at any of 503 branches of 15 selected banks and the Investment Corporation of Bangladesh.

Mobile phone users suffer multifarious problems

Obscenity spread out by mobile phone users more or less hampers study of nearly 90 per cent of its users, who are also students of Dhaka University (DU), a research revealed recently. Over 50 per cent users of mobile phone face different types of physical and mental problems due to use of their mobile, said the research.

One crore mobile phones unregistered: Criminals use unauthorised SIMs to commit crime

The six mobile phone operators in the country have at least 30 million subscribers on their roll and 35 percent of them use unregistered. SIM cards.

MRP by April 2010: JS body

The parliamentary standing committee on home ministry today said the machine-readable passport (MRP) would be introduced by the April 2010 international deadline.

Free internet service for schools, colleges planned

Telecommunications minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju said yesterday that the government planned to provide internet service to all schools, colleges, universities and most of government organisations free of cost to build a digital Bangladesh by 2021.

Viettel to invest $250m in Teletalk

Vietnam's state telecoms operator Veittel will buy stakes and invest $250 million in mobile-phone operator Teletalk, the telecommunications minister said on Wednesday. They will forward a written proposal in a week, Raziuddin Razu said.

Internet Says Goodbye To .YU Websites

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body that oversees much of how the world wide web interacts, will say goodbye to .yu, the country code for the former nation of Yugoslavia.

Electronic ID cards soon for security of Secretariat

The government has decided to intensify security of Bangladesh Secretariat, the hub of the country's administration, by introducing electronic identity cards (EICs) for employees and visitors, reports BSS.