Bangladesh has an impressive record in various aspects of development, including poverty reduction, climate change adaptation and disaster-risk preparedness, says the World Bank. “I look forward to working closely with the government and people of Bangladesh as the country works towards the goal of achieving upper-middle income status by ...
Hiren Pandit: Today, the national flag is the main carrier of our identity all over the world. Then comes the national anthem. The father of the nation, the architect of Bengal, is still testifying to the fact that every single institution of this country was formed by him. His daughter, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, is taking this state ...
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has been implementing massive infrastructure development works aimed at improving the livelihood and socio-economic conditions of the citizens. "We have been implementing our scheduled development projects despite the Covid-19 pandemic," City Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton said, while addressing a view-sharing meet...
Pranab Kumar Panday March 2021 marks the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation and the golden jubilee of the country’s independence. The country has attained phenomenal success in numerous fields over the past fifty years. However, the intensity of positive attainments was considerably higher in the last decade under the Awami Leagu...
As Bangladesh celebrates 50 years of its independence, the nation, born in violence after the 1971 Liberation War in opposition to Pakistan, is quickly shifting forward on the path of development from its preliminary excessive poverty. Olivier Guillard for the Asialyst writes that at current, Dhaka ranks forward of Islamabad in phrases of devel...
Shah Ali Farhad: When the world turned away from one of the greatest refugee crises, despite its own limitations, Bangladesh played a major humanitarian role by sheltering over a million forcibly displaced Rohingyas. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina -- unlike many leaders of the developed world, too afraid to speak sympathetically about refugee is...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the officials to keep the all river channels navigational saying riverine Bangladesh would become cripple without maintaining its river ‘vessel’ clean. She said this while commissioning of the ferry services on Munsigonj-Gazaria river route and other projects of the Shipping Ministry through vi...
HPM Sheikh Hasina at the public rally organized by district Awami League at Chandpur
Blessed with excellent gifts of nature Cox’s Bazar is developing into a city of joy for the people of South and South East Asia. Its excellent geographical location having the longest flat sandy sea beach in the world, huge prospects of untapped maritime resources, excellent prospect of construction of fuel import infrastructures and power...
A total of 11,104 megawatts (MW) of power have been added to the national grid in the last nine years, facilitiating 83 percent of the country's total population access to electricity, according to official sources."The electricity generation capacity reached 16,046 MW and now 83 percent people are getting power facility across the country. In t...
Mentioning that the government wants peace and security of the people, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said continuation of the government is very much needed for development of the country. "We're accomplishing the development work as we remain in state power for nine years at a stretch from 2009 to 2017. So the continuation of the government is ...
Bangladesh has achieved independence after 227 years of tyrannical rule from the British and Pakistani authority. Bangladesh had to sacrifice the lives of it sons and daughters for gaining this independence. After the independence of Bangladesh, the architect behind it, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman took necessary and effective steps...
Bangladesh has achieved independence after 227 years of tyrannical rule from the British and Pakistani authority. Bangladesh had to sacrifice the lives of it sons and daughters for gaining this independence. After the independence of Bangladesh, the architect behind it, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman took necessary and effective steps for reb...