Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged all concerned to encourage children to take part in sports and cultural activities alongside their academic pursuits for developing in them the leadership qualities. “We want our children’s participation in sports and cultural competitions alongside their studies for their sound health and mind...
Reiterating her call to bank owners to lower the interest rate to a single digit, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the businessmen to pay off the loan and interest on time. “We have given some facilities to bank owners as per their desire to lower the interest rate of bank loan to single digit. But, only some banks, not all, have sl...
The United Nations (UN) will raise the issue of Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh in 1971 in the international forum, visiting UN Under Secretary-General and Special Advisor on Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng said on Sunday. “Though some countries may oppose, we will raise the issue of Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh during the liberat...
The nation has celebrated the 99th birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman through extensive programmes, fanfare and gaiety. In Tungipara, Gopalganj, President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The President and the Pr...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged affluent people to dedicate them to the cause of nation following philanthropist RP Shaha’s footprints as she handed over “Danveer Ranada Prasad Shaha Memorial Gold Medal” to four national celebrities. “Ranada Prasad Shaha set an example in serving the human being,” she told t...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said bilateral relations between Bangladesh and India have appeared as a “role model” of good neighbourliness for the rest of the world, expressing her firm belief that this cooperation will also continue in future. “As a result of multifaceted and multi-dimensional cooperation, our bila...
The cabinet today requested the countrymen to pray for Road Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, who is now on the way for treatment at Mt. Elizabeth, Singapore with critical cardiac ailments. “The cabinet was informed about his (Quader’s) health condition (and) it urged the countrymen to...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the engineers to adopt development plans protecting environment alongside maintaining their standard. “You (engineers) have been playing the biggest role in implementing our development projects. So, you’ll have to adopt development plans keeping in mind environment and ecology,” she told...
Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina has said effective measures have been taken under “My Village, My Town” project aimed at expanding civic amenities to the villages. “Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman gave the commitment of taking effective measures in phases for reducing the gap between...
Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina said the government would rehabilitate the drug dealers on their surrenders. “Many drug peddlers are surrendering due to (nationwide) massive awareness campaign … Financial assistance will be given to them for their rehabilitation,” she said while replying to a supplementar...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the Bangladeshi engineers living abroad to make contribution to the country’s ongoing development as the ‘son of the soil’. “Non-resident Bangladeshi (NRB) engineers can play immense role in development of ICT sector, agricultural and industrial production, communication and sea r...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has opened the boring works of her government’s ambitious tunnel project under the Karnaphuli River saying she expects Bangladesh to be a “world wonder” with its spectacular development. “I want to build Bangladesh in such a way so that the entire world looks at it (country) with surprise . ....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the Chawkbazar tragedy appeared as a lesson for chemical warehouse owners in Old Dhaka, expressing her belief this time they would not decline to relocate their godowns elsewhere as insisted earlier. “I hope that those who earlier opposed to relocating their chemical warehouses from (crammed) old Dhak...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has requested the judges to deliver the verdicts of lawsuits in Bangla taking into consideration the poor knowledge of most of the litigants in the foreign language. “Because of poor knowledge in English, most of the litigants need to depend on their lawyers to understand the verdict. The litigants have no sco...
Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) here on Sunday signed four memorandums of understanding (MoUs) to promote relations between the two countries in the areas of investment, business and power sector. The instruments were inked after a meeting between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and a 15-member UAE business delegation led by Minister...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the LGRD ministry to sketch out a master plan to build up all upazila under a specific development design aimed at protecting cropland and check sporadic construction of buildings, roads and other structures. “Unplanned development of the upazilas should be regulated and roads and ways of the upazi...
American actress Angelina Jolie has praised Sheikh Hasina’s leadership as “exemplary” for keeping Bangladesh’s border open for the Rohingyas who have fled violent persecution in Myanmar. She says the world needs more leaders like her. The special envoy of the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR paid a courtesy call on the p...
On 6th February 2019, the visiting Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and renowned Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie made a visit to the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi Road 32, Dhaka. She was briefed about the history of the Father of the Nation and given the ...
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will be more engaged in the repatriation of the Rohingya people from Bangladesh. Visiting Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno L. P. Marsudio informed this today when she paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her Jatiya Sangsad office here this evening. After the meeting, PM&rsq...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed her government’s firm resolve to make Bangladesh Police a people-friendly organization saying the government would continue to enhance its strength in accordance with prevailing demand. “In 2009, the police-people ratio stood at 1:1355 — But our government has raised it to 1:801,&rdqu...
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