Bangladesh, Bangabandhu, AL sewed in single thread: discussants at Awami Leagues special webinar on 71st anniversary

Veteran politicians, academicians and analysts in a webinar discussion have said Bangladesh, Bangabandhu and Awami League (AL) are sewed in a single thread as if anyone talks about Bangladesh he or she must utter the names of Bangabandhu and AL. Over seven decades ago on June 23 in 1949, the Awami League had begun its journey to realize the rig...

71 Years of Awami League's Glorious Journey and Digital Bangladesh

Prof. Dr. Munaz Ahmed Noor:  71 is a very significant number in the history of the nation’s glorious achievement and struggle. We got an independent and sovereign country in 1971 under the leadership of the Father of the Nation and the greatest Bengali of all time Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The victory in the nine-month-long ...

71 years of AL: Webinar with Senior Leaders Tomorrow

The 71st founding anniversary of Bangladesh Awami League, the party which spearheaded the country’s 1971 Liberation War, will be observed tomorrow particularly on virtual media due to the coronavirus pandemic. Marking the day, the party will arrange a webinar on ‘Awami League: A Party of Masses’ tomorrow which can be watc...

71st Anniversary of Bangladesh Awami League: Webinar on Youth Expectations

The 23rd of this June is Bangladesh Awami League’s 71st anniversary. Awami League’s 71 years of standing with people. This year, Awami League has planned differently to celebrate this anniversary. On 22nd June, Awami League has planned to organize a webinar on ‘Youth Expectations from Bangladesh Awami League’. The webina...

Proposed budget to keep the economy strong and help people survive: Speakers at 'Beyond the Pandemic's latest apisode

Speakers at a webinar here said the proposed budget for 2020-21 fiscal would help the people survive and save the economy of the country amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. They came up with the remarks, joining the 6th episode of the Awami League’s ongoing webinar titled ‘Beyond the Pandemic’ on Tuesday night. Moderated ...

Grassroot workers risking their lives to send help to people: Speakers at Beyond the Pandemic’s 4th episode

Speakers of the latest episode of Beyond The Pandemic agrees that while fighting this COVID-19 crisis, distressed and low-income people are getting help as the grass root workers of Bangladesh Awami League are risking their lives. Bangladesh Awami League’s special webinar titled Beyond the Pandemic was broadcasted live on 2nd June which i...

Awami League's Webinar 'Beyond The Pandemic' returning on Saturday

Bangladesh Awami League has taken up an initiative to organize a webinar on government and party’s initiatives and measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar titled ‘Beyond the Pandemic’ is broadcasted live on the party’s official Facebook page (www.facebook.com/awamileague.1949). On 30th May, the third episode...

Communist Party of China to support Bangladesh in fighting COVID-19

Communist Party of China (CPC) will extend all kinds of support to Bangladesh to combat novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The CPC leaders gave the assurance during a videoconference with the leaders of Bangladesh Awami League (AL). Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) organised the event at its office this noon. Issues related to sen...

Awami League provides food aid to over 90.25 lakh families

Bangladesh Awami League has provided food assistance to over 90.25 lakh families across the country amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Besides the food assistance, the party has distributed Taka 8.62 crore cash among the poor and destitute people amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, according to a webpost of the Awami Leagu...

Awami League's 21st Council in photos

Awami League's 21st Council in photos

Youths Learn History Through CRI at Awami League Council

Youths of numerous universities and colleges across Bangladesh joined hundreds of thousands of delegates in the Awami League’s 21st council on Friday to know the history of the party and share their thoughts. Research organization Center for Research and Information (CRI) brought them under their signature event ‘Let’s Talk&rsq...

Nation celebrates 49th Victory Day

The nation is celebrating the 49th Victory Day, the most precious day of the Bangalee people, as the country was liberated from the Pakistani occupation forces on the day 48 years back after a nine-month-long bloodstained War of Liberation. On December 16 in 1971, Bangladesh was born as an independent country under the leadership of Father of t...

Awami League to set up party offices in each division, district and upazilla

The Awami League (AL) is planning to set up party offices in each district, divisional city and upazila with its own funds. AL president Sheikh Hasina has already directed some of her party leaders to take steps to set up party offices across the country to strengthen the organisation right from the grassroots levels. The AL central office has ...

Bangladesh Awami League – Resilient at 70

Abdul Mannan: June 23rd is the 70th founding anniversary of Bangladesh Awami League, perhaps the most resilient political party of the sub-continent. It is also the party that led the Bengali nation to have a country of their own and produced not only the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman but also statesmen like his daughte...

The Awami League, seventy years after 1949

Syed Badrul Ahsan: Seventy years ago, on 23 June 1949, history took a definitive and decisive new turn. There were some courageous men - Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Yar Mohammad, Shamsul Haque, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and, of course, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy - whose names are today engraved in the Bengali consciousness. These men, grown ...

AL finalizes candidates in 10 unions

Bangladesh Awami League (AL) has finalised its candidates in the chairman posts for the union parishad (UP) elections in 10 UPs in Patuakhali Sadar, Mymensingh Sadar and Kamalnagar upazilas. The nominations were finalised at a meeting of the AL Local Government Nomination Board held at Ganabhaban, on Monday (June 10) evening, said a party press...

Awami League forms two committees to help Fani-hit people

Awami League on Sunday formed two committees to assess the damages done by Cyclone Fani. The party will also distribute relief among the cyclone affected people. At a press conference at the party president's political office in Dhanmondi in the capital, AL Advisory Council Member Amir Hossain Amu revealed the information. AL Presidium Member...

Bangabandhu's thoughts on inclusive development

Dr. Atiur Rahman: Seventeenth March 1920 was a blessed day for Bengalis. Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born on this auspicious day in a remote village of Tungipara in the then Gopalganj Sub-Division, as it used to be known. There was no transport system to easily connect this remote village with urban areas. Yet, t...

Every party and citizen is important for us: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has promised to value the people’s confidence bestowed on her government through the December 30 elections saying, it would work for every citizen irrespective of their political affiliations or views. “Victory and defeat is a natural course of an election and its true Awami League won the election but, ...

Saudi King emphasizes on continuity of Bangladesh's development

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has emphasised maintaining continuity of Bangladesh’s development in a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, according to Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque. Hasina met King Salman in Riyadh before attending a luncheon hosted by the king on Wednesday afternoon local time. &ldqu...