The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved five similar projects to improve the respective district highways into due standard and width of Rajshahi, Khulna, Rangpur, Chattogram and Sylhet Zone with an overall outlay of Taka 3,368.21 crore for these five projects. The approval came from the 25th ECNEC meeting ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called for full utilisation of mutual cooperation between Bangladesh and India and hoped that both the countries would continue this trend of cooperation in the future. "The 'far beyond strategic relationship' between Bangladesh and India is often considered as a 'model of bilateral relation' for the rest of t...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the police force to provide proper service to people according to their expectation."We want to see that our people get proper service from police and for this we are determined to make a smart, professional and public-friendly police force," she said. The prime minister was addressing the passing-ou...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the international community for inclusion of the persons with disabilities in the development and disaster risk management process. "Bangladesh has done this..., and we hope that other countries would follow us," she said, highlighting the disaster management plans taken by her government over the years. ...
Putting emphasis on providing better services to the patients, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed the authorities concerned to create skilled manpower for operating diagnostic machines properly. "We some time see that a big mistake is made while diagnosing the patients. Though the equipment is developed, there is a lack of skil...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has greeted the countrymen for successful launching of Bangladesh's first communication satellite into space, saying that it added a new milestone to the path of continued advancement of the country. "Bangladesh entered a new era as a proud member of the satellite club from today as the flag of Bangladesh has al...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a project to construct a double line railway track on Khulna-Darshana section under the Indian 2nd Line of Credit in a bid to enhance the capacity of Bangladesh Railway on Dhaka-Khulna and Khulna-Chilahati routes. The approval was given at the 23rd ECNEC meeting of th...
The cabinet has given final approval to the revised dowry law suggesting five years of imprisonment for making efforts to implicate one with false charges at its weekly meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. "The new Dowry Prohibition Act, 2018 will replace the existing one framed in 1980," Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shaf...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina suggested Myanmar to follow Bangladesh in maintaining religious harmony in Bangladesh. "I think that Myanmar should follow Bangladesh that how a country could be run by maintaining (traditional) religious harmony," she said. The prime minister was addressing a view-exchange meeting with the Buddhist religious...
Urging the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to stand firm by the distressed Rohingyas, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the organisation must have to maintain international pressure on Naypyidaw to take back their nationals as it has agreed with Bangladesh for their safe return. Pointing out the message of Holy Prophet Muhammad (P...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her government began works to formulate plans and action programmes to transform Bangladesh into a developed country during a set timeframe from 2021 to 2041. "We have started to devise the plan how we want to develop Bangladesh and how we want to look Bangladesh from 2021 to 2041," she told a reception hosted ...
Another feather adds to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's crown as she received the Global Women's Leadership Award today for her outstanding leadership in women's education and entrepreneurship in Bangladesh, raising her total accolades to 33. The US-based Global Summit of Women conferred the prestigious accolade on Sheikh Hasina at a gala dinner...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be awarded with the prestigious Global Women's Leadership Award in recognition of her leadership role in expansion of women education and women entrepreneurship in Bangladesh, Asia and Asia-pacific region. Global Summit of Women, a US-based NGO, will confer the award, a lifetime honour, to the Bangladesh premie...
President Abdul Hamid has taken oath as the President of Bangladesh for the second consecutive term at a ceremony at Bangabhaban on Tuesday evening.Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered his oath of office in the presence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, among other dignitaries, at the Darbar Hall of Bangabhaban.The cer...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to bring convicted BNP leader Tarique Rahman back to Bangladesh from London. She says she talked to the British government and will have Tarique extradited ‘by any means’. The prime minister was addressing a reception organised by UK Awami League chapter at Westminster in London on Saturday. ...
HPM Sheikh Hasina has met Narendra Modi in London on the sidelines of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The two leaders discussed different issues, including bilateral ones, at the Lancaster House on Thursday, Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque told the media. “India has changed its stance much on the Rohingya issue. They are very ...
The Commonwealth leaders have expressed solidarity with Bangladesh over the Rohingya issue and demanded justice for the persecution of the minority group in Myanmar. “Heads expressed full solidarity with the Government and the people of Bangladesh affected by the influx of more than a million Rohingya from Rakhine State in Myanmar,”...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has put forward a proposal to reform the Commonwealth by revitalising its secretariat to make the 53-member body much more relevant in the current global context. "We appreciate that the Group (High-Level Group or HLG) is dealing with important questions of prioritising member states developmental challenges, fundin...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has placed a seven-point proposal to promote intra-Commonwealth trade, investment and innovation and urged the grouping to keep the trade regime open and transparent. "We should ensure that the trade regime remains open, rules-based, transparent, inclusive and fair," she said while taking part in an event titled "Co...
Viewing stability as the key to the future of Asia, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the Asian leaders to build bridges and strive for connectivity to make the region more peaceful and stable for its further development and prosperity. "Indeed, we believe stability to be the key to the future of Asia. For that, we need to build bridges,...
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