Awami League Always Stands Beside People During Disaster: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the Awami League (AL) always stands beside the people during any disaster. "In government or opposition, wherever AL remains, its leaders and activists always stand beside the countrymen and work for them. During cyclone, flood or any other disaster, we always stay beside people and will continue assistan...

Awami League stands against communalism, BNP's falsehood

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said that the 6.15 kilometre long Padma Bridge is the symbol of dignity as well as revenge to humiliation. "It is the dream bridge of Sheikh Hasina. The Padma Bridge is the golden outcome of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's bold courage, which proved our ability and capacity," he told a pre...

Release of Sheikh Hasina & Return of Democracy

Sheikh Hasina had to overcome obstacles in every step of her life. She lived in exile for six years after the assassination of her father, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family in 1975. She re-established parliamentary democracy through a decade-long movement against autocracy. After becoming the Prime Minister in 1996, she made the c...

Six-Point Demand was "Magna Carta" for Bangladesh Independence: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the Six-Point Demand raised by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the "Magna Carta" of Bangalees as it had prepared the people for independence of the country. "The Six-Point Demand prepared the people fully for Independence and propelled them to the War of Liberation. Actually, it (Six-Point) was the ...

Awami League always fulfils its election pledges to the people: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday expressed satisfaction that her ruling Awami League party has been able to fulfil its election pledges to the people. She said this in her introductory speech at the Awami League Advisory Council meeting held at her official residence Ganobhaban. At the outset of the meeting observed one-minute silence...

CIRDAP awards HPM Sheikh Hasina for her contribution in Bangladesh's rural development

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said her government is developing the country in a planned manner from the grassroots. “My party Awami League has given priority to the development of rural areas of the country as desired development is not possible leaving the grass root people behind,” she said. The premier came up with the...

From Father to Daughter: The Story of Bangladesh's Surprising Rise in South Asia

The infrastructural and economic development of Bangladesh in the last era is a surprise to the whole world today. The UN resolution states: If this trend of development in Bangladesh continues, it will soon be enlisted as a developed country from a developing one. This change in Bangladesh compared to the South Asian countries is an unprecedent...

HPM Sheikh Hasina gives home to 3.53 million homeless people

Families who have been struggling to make ends meet with their children under the scorching sun in the streets or slums without finding a place to sleep are now happy to have the opportunity to live in a proper house. At the initiative of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 3.53 million people from 778,040 families have found a place, a permanent add...

The long-cherished Padma Bridge will open to traffic on June 25

The long-awaited 6.15km Padma Bridge is all set to open for public use at 10am on 25 June. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader made the announcement following a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday noon. He told journalists that the mega project will be named after River Padma as per the instruction of the premie...

HPM Sheikh Hasina for designing reliable sustainable development plans

Different parts of Bangladesh have different geographical characteristics, which should be taken into consideration in designing development plans, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “You need to understand Bangladesh and work accordingly,” she said in the first meeting of the Delta Governance Council, formed to implement the Bangla...

HPM Sheikh Hasina places four proposals before GRCG to tackle global crises risen from Russia-Ukraine war

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for strengthening global solidarity and adopting a well-coordinated response against the food, energy and financial crises resulting from the Russia-Ukraine war and Covid-19 pandemic, placing four proposals to tackle the situation. "The war in Ukraine comes at a time when the world is still struggling to ...

Sheikh Hasina's homecoming and resurrection of democracy

Sheikh Wali Asif: Bangladesh's political discourse, 17 May 1981, is popularly known as "Hasina's homecoming day". The homecoming of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was not only the individual return of Bangabandhu's daughter but also the return of democracy and the spirit of the liberation that had been halted after the brutal killing of the fathe...

Returned home to bring smile on people's faces: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reiterated that she returned home with only a goal to bring smiles on the faces of the country's people. "I returned home to bring smiles on the people's faces, because, it was my father's (Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman) dream," she said. The premier made this remark while speaking at...

Only HPM Sheikh Hasina indispensable for Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has proved that only she is indispensable for Bangladesh, says the ruling party’s youth wing Bangladesh Jubo League Chairman Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash. “During the 1/11 of 2007 (the military-backed caretaker regime), a government official asked me, why is Sheikh Hasina essential for Bangladesh Awami Leag...

New generation is very much aware of the country's true history: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said repeated attempts were made to remove the name of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from history and thus the nation was deprived of knowing the real history since 1975. “But, it is not possible now as the new generation is very much aware of the country's true history," she sai...

Bangladesh has the most liberal investment policy in South Asia: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the US to think of Bangladesh as a potential partner for enhanced trade and investment, saying she expects to double the trade volume between the two countries. The prime minister made the statement in a meeting with the first executive business delegation of the US-Bangladesh Business Council in Dhaka on ...

Awami League government increased minimum wage more than 200%: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the owners and workers of the industries to always keep in their mind the spirit of the immortal May Day and work together for country's industrialisation. "It's the foremost duty of the workers to work honestly and sincerely to keep their industries operative and it's the duty of the owners to look into...

HPM Sheikh Hasina for inventing climate tolerate crops to achieve global food security

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today suggested the invention of climate tolerance species of crops, food preservation, reduction in post-harvest loss, nutrition security and adaptation of modern technology by agriculture scientists. She made the suggestion when a Canadian delegation called on her at her official residence Ganabhaban on Sunday. T...

It’s Awami League who Upholds the Democratic System in Bangladesh: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Awami League never used the backdoor for grabbing power, rather it always assumes state power through elections.  "Awami League (AL) always assumes power through elections. It never grabbed power using the backdoor as AL is not an organisation that was created from the pocket of any military dict...

HPM Sheikh Hasina for further improving connectivity with India

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (April 28, 2022) emphasized the importance of improving connectivity between Bangladesh and India for mutual benefit, saying that steps have been initiated to reopen various cross-border roads between the two nations that were closed in 1965. "We need to improve our connectivity. India's North Eastern province...