The Bangladesh National Scientific and Technical Documentation Centre is the national scientific research archive and provides support to research and development projects in Bangladesh and is located in
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
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History
The organisation traces its origins to a regional unit of Pakistan National Scientific and Technical Documentation Centre in East Regional Laboratories of the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. After the
Independence of Bangladesh Independence of Bangladesh was declared on 26 March 1971, celebrated as Independence Day, from Pakistan. The Independence Day of Bangladesh is celebrated on 26 March when Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared the Independence of Bangladesh. The Bangladesh ...
it was reestablished as the Bangladesh National Scientific and Technical Documentation Centre and placed under
in 1972.
References
Research institutes in Bangladesh
Government agencies of Bangladesh
1972 establishments in Bangladesh
Organisations based in Dhaka
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