The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved 4 development projects including a project for improvement of power distribution system in Chittagong zone, to provide new connections to five lakh subscribers.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today handed over the prestigious UNESCO International Literacy Prize to the recipients for this year, marking the International Literacy Day.
Bangladesh will invite fresh block bidding for oil and gas exploration in the bay of the Bengal soon. “We have around seven blocks. After we modernize the PSC, we will go for bidding," State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid Bipu told reporters recently.
The Awami League government’s initiative “Ghore Phera Kormosuchi” (let’s go back to home) has made progress in turning around the families of the urban troubled slums. Initiated in 1998, the financial scheme has so far helped 987 families to return home and became self employed.
The World Health Organization is going to award Saima Wazed Hossain, daughter of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in recognition of her contribution in public health development in South-East Asian region.
Bangladesh has shown remarkable success in reducing child blindness by 50 percent, to 24,000 in 2014 from 48,000 in 2000.
The 54th council meeting and annual forum of Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO) started yesterday in Dhaka for the first time.
Health ministers from eleven countries of South-East Asia Region of WHO will attend a four-day meeting in Dhaka that starts tomorrow. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the program.
The cabinet today approved a proposal for converting city's Tejgaon industrial zone and its all main roads into an industry cum commercial and residential area.
UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova was today all praise for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her outstanding contribution to promoting girls and women education and raising literacy rate in Bangladesh.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today received a special memento from UNESCO in recognition of her outstanding contribution to promotion of girls' and women's education.
The Awami League led government has taken a number of development initiatives in last six years that led the country to achieve the major key targets under the Millennium Development Goals before the 2015 deadline.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the present government has been implementing various programmes to provide job-oriented education to the country's illiterate people for building them as human resources.
Bangladesh’s inflow of inward remittance rose 16 percent to $1.16 billion in August, compared to the same month a year ago, as a result of governments effort to ensure export of skilled workers remains strong.
A top spokesman of the Japanese government today said despite being brief, the Bangladesh visit by their Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared "very successful" with its focus being economy for mutual benefit.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the Awami League lawmakers to remain alert against the propaganda by the vested quarters centering the 16th amendment to the constitution.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the officials of the shipping ministry and all its departments concerned to work sincerely for making the river routes safe and secure for passengers and goods.
Bangladesh has withdrawn its candidature from the Asia Pacific Group for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council and extended support in favour of Japan.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her firm optimism that the friendship and understanding between Bangladesh and Japan would be substantially augmented in the coming days.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the Japanese businessmen to make more investment in Bangladesh, especially in the high-tech manufacturing, as the country is giving highest scopes for the foreign investors.
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