Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the Commonwealth leaders to make efforts to build a future where global peace and women empowerment will remain as the cornerstone to create a society free from poverty, discrimination and conflict.She also laid importance on imparting proper education to women for their empowerment in society. "Withou...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the bank authorities to bring down interest rate to a single digit to expedite investment in the country. "I would like to tell you to cut interest rate, otherwise investment is not possible in the country ... it must be brought down to a single digit," she said while receiving donation for her Relief and Welf...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today renewed her call to the countrymen to be economical in using electricity saying that the government has to spend a huge amount of money to produce it. "You'll have to be economical in using electricity ... we want that the people to use it properly," she said while opening Bheramara 410-MW Combined Cycle...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she was hopeful of solving the pending Teesta water sharing issue with India as Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Keshav Gokhale paid a courtesy call on her. "We've resolved many problems. Now one problem remains to be resolved is Teesta issue," Premier's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim quoted her as saying while br...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated just-completed four road development projects in Cumilla expressing her firm optimism that Bangladesh would advance further keeping its head high."We're a victorious nation ... we'll move keeping our head high and materialize Bangabandhu's dream of establishing a developed and prosperous Sonar Bangla (Gol...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her government has been making constant efforts to establish the fact that Islam is a religion of peace and make people aware of its real lessons. The Prime Minister said this while inaugurating the construction works of nine model mosques and Islamic cultural centres to be built in different places of the ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government would establish SME advisory centers in all district and Upazillas, which will act as one-stop centers to provide service to the entrepreneurs. "Entrepreneurs will be able to avail supports for starting a new business, expansion of existing ones, management and technical training, consu...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has described the people with autism as an integral part of society, calling upon all to stand beside them to unfold their hidden talents."Don't neglect the people with autism ... they are an integral part of our society," she told the inaugural function of the 11th World Autism Awareness Day at Bangabandhu Internati...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has described "boat" as the "symbol of the people" seeking vote for it saying Awami League's reelection in the next polls was crucial to keep up the peace and the current development spree. "Nobody returns empty-handed after voting for 'boat' . . . we delivered more than what we had committed," Sheikh Hasina told a ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the government is going to expand cub scouting in primary schools.She said this while inaugurating 6th National Comdeca of Bangladesh Scouts at Charvanga of Haimchar Upazila here on Sunday.A project for expanding cub scouting in primary school level would get government approval soon, the prime minister said.&nb...
Stating that seeking vote for 'boat', the election symbol of Bangladesh Awami League, is her political rights, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said wherever she will go as the president of her party she will seek vote. "Seeking vote for boat is my rights as I'm the president of our party. So wherever I will go I will seek vote for my par...
The government has granted citizenship to Lucy Helen Frances Holt, a British national who has lived in Bangladesh for the past 57 years. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presented Holt with a citizenship award on Saturday. Her sister, Sheikh Rehana, and daughter, Saima Wazed Hossain, were also present. The 87-year-old British national has spent 57...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the countrymen to cast vote for Awami League in upcoming elections recalling the party's historic role and sacrifices in realizing Bengali rights, nation building, independence and for continuity of the current development spree. "Cast your vote for our 'boat', we will give you a Sonar Bangla," she said wh...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for uprooting all sorts of terrorism to establish a secured and prosperous region. "We must root out all kinds of terrorism to build a secured and prosperous region," she said when the national security chiefs of the BIMSTEC countries paid a courtesy call on her at her Ganabhaban residence here this eveni...
Lions Clubs International has decorated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with the 'Medal of Distinction' in recognition to her services for the needy and distressed, particularly forcibly displaced Rohingya people. "Visiting Lions Clubs International President Dr Naresh Agarwal decorated the prime minister with the medal when he paid a courtesy cal...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed the hope for a bright future of the country's football in the global sports arena. Male and female players being groomed up through Bangabandhu Gold Cup and Bangamata Fazilutunnesa Mujib Gold Cup primary school football tournaments would take forward the country's football to a more successful position...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the countrymen to stay alert against anti-liberation forces' return to power so Bangladesh remained as the country of freedom fighters. "We got independence of the country in exchange for blood of three million martyrs . . . this independence must not go in vain," she told a discussion on the occasio...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh as a victorious nation would live in the world forever keeping its head high without seeking help to others. "We are moving ahead as best as possible on our part and we will continue our progress to take the country to a more dignified position," she said while distributing the "Swadhinata Padak-2018...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused the post-1975 rulers of implementing the agenda of the then Pakistani junta to appease Islamabad. "They didn't want that the people of Bangladesh will get square meals, houses and pursue education . . . they were executing the agenda of the Pakistani occupation forces in different way," she told a discus...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accused BNP of disrespecting justice system over its leader Begum Khaleda Zia's conviction on graft charges but feared the attitude to dwindle further the party's public support. "People do not side with a corrupt person," she said in an apparent reference to Begum Zia while addressing a huge public rally at this af...