Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh's graduation to a developing country is a slap to those who forecast that Bangladesh will be a bottomless basket after independence. "A quarter during the Liberation War asked what the country will achieve after being independent and said it will be a bottomless basket. I think the Bangalees can give...
Highlighting Bangladesh's graduation from the LDC to the status of 'Developing Country', Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh is no more falling behind the neighbouring countries. The prime minister said this yesterday while addressing a Children's Rally and Cultural Programme marking the 99th birthday of Father of the Nation Bang...
The United Nations has recognized Bangladesh as a developing country in the month of independence and on the day of Bangabandhu's birthday. Roland Mollerus, Chief of the United Nations CPD Secretariat, handed over the letter to the Bangladeshi envoy in New York. World Bank recognized Bangladesh as a low-middle income country in July 2015 and n...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman heralding the nationwide programmes on the occasion of the 99th birthday of the great leader. The premier paid the homage by placing a wreath at the portrait of Bangabandhu in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at historic 32 Dh...
Rohingya refugees from Myanmar continue to trickle into Bangladesh and are a heavy burden on the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said as she pressed Yangon to honour its promise to repatriate them. PM Hasina flew back to Dhaka on Tuesday afternoon, curtailing her first official visit by a day after a Bangladeshi passenger plane ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked authorities concerned to take preventive measures to avoid air crashes like US-Bangla Airlines plane in future. While chairing a high-level emergency meeting at the Prime Minister's Office here this morning, the prime minister also directed the ministries and divisions concerned and the airline operat...
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged Singapore business communities to take a partnership role in Bangladesh's journey towards economic development as she offered 500 acres of land or more for setting their own industrial park. Pointing out her government's initiative for setting up Special Economic Zones across the country, the pr...
Bangladesh has signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) on air service and public-private partnership with Singapore. The MoU was signed on Monday at the Istana, office of the President of Singapore, in the presence of the prime ministers of both countries. The Confidential MoU on Air Services between the Government of the Peoples' Re...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has opened the first-ever Bangladesh Youth Games, expressing her hope that the country could effectively counter militancy and terrorism through games and sports. "Through games and sports, we'll face militancy and terrorism as well as save the youths from the menace of drug abuse . . . we'll also advance the ...
Terming the historic March 7 speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as incomparable, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said his speech is a source of inspiration for all freedom-loving people of the globe. "Now today, the whole of the Bangali nation is proud of it. I'll say we've got our 'harano manik' (lost jewel) ... ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged parents on International Women’s Day to guide their daughters into self-reliance. Enabling girls for work through education will bring the best results to families and society, Hasina said at a programme at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on Thursday. “We want to ensure that women ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the nation to debar anti-liberation forces and perpetrators of crimes against humanity from returning to power, as she addressed a public rally coinciding with Bangabandhu's historic 7th March speech anniversary."Those people who have faith in War of Liberation and spirit of independence and development sho...
Bangladesh today sought Vietnam's support for a peaceful solution to the Rohingya crisis as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held bilateral official talks with visiting Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang saying the issue was threatening the region's stability. "We have discussed the Rohingya crisis that threatens peace and stability of our reg...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the authorities concerned to do whatever necessary for the better treatment of eminent writer and educationist Professor Zafar Iqbal. The prime minister gave the directives while visiting Zafar Iqbal at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka this afternoon. Iqbal, a professor of Shahjalal Univers...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the government is implementing all development programmes to make sure the benefits reach villages across the country. “We have planned it so development starts at the village level,” Hasina said during the inauguration of the 58th Bangladesh Engineers Institution Convention in Khulna’s Khalis...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed her firm optimism of Awami League' s victory in the next election and the development spree will continue through it. "Insha Allah the 'boat' (AL's election symbol) will be victorious and the development spree of the country will keep on," she told a mammoth public rally here this afternoon. Sheikh Ha...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has suggested students to pursue practical education on agriculture, saying that there is nothing of shame to work on land or plant seedlings. "We're providing education to our children. But after pursuing education, they don't want to work on land. I think they should be given (practical) education on agricul...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has opened digital platform "Krishi Batayon" (agriculture portal) and "Krishak Bandhu Phone Seba" for expansion of e-agriculture services across the country.The prime minister inaugurated the services through a video conference from her official residence Ganabhaban on Wednesday afternoon.Agriculture Minister Begum M...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came down heavily on BNP for making a convict its chairman and expressed her doubt about the ability of the party to do any good to the people as "it has taken corruption as its principle". "I want to tell the countrymen and parliament members through hounourable Speaker what work will be done by a party which...
Visiting Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao highly praised Bangladesh's tremendous socioeconomic uplift under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, saying the country has an immense potentiality to emerge as an economic power in Asia."Bangladesh has immense potentiality to emerge as an economic power in Asia like Chi...
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