HPM Sheikh Hasina inaugurates housing facilities for govt employees

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated 10 multi-storey buildings at city’s Motijheel and Azimpur government colonies as part of her government’s plan to raise the housing facilities of the government employees from the existing eight percent to 40 percent. The prime minister inaugurated the buildings at separate functions at M...

HPM Sheikh Hasina directs party men to campaign on govt's development works

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the party men to organize Awami League as well as its front organizations and go to the people to seek their votes in the next general election. “Awami League is the only political party in the country, which feels for the people and works for their welfare,” she said urging the party men to wa...

HPM Sheikh Hasina for well-thought long-term development plan

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laid utmost importance upon formulating a long-term plan for overall development of the country and sought well-thought out ideas in this regard particularly from the bureaucrats to prepare the nation’s development pathway for 2041. “We have already started working upon preparing the plan for 2021-2041 a...

UN Sec-Gen meets HPM Sheikh Hasina: Assures more pressure on Myanmar

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the UN is pressuring Myanmar to resolve the Rohingya crisis. The UN chief and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her offices in Dhaka on Sunday as part of their trip to Bangladesh. Guterres said there should be more pressure on Myanmar to make them understand w...

WB chief expresses confidence in Sheikh Hasina's leadership

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim expresses his organization’s confidence in the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. He said Bangladesh was the second largest recipient of the World Bank loan which shows our (WB) faith in your leadership”. World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said this during his meeting with HPM Sheikh ...

Only Awami League can change the fortune of the people: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina today urged her party leaders and workers to make the party stronger by increasing its popularity at the grassroots level as no party other than Awami League can change the fortune of the people. “Awami League is the only party in the country which can change the lot of the people. S...

HPM Sheikh Hasina emphasizes on sharing coastal security experiences between Bangladesh and Indian Navy

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has put emphasis on sharing experiences between Bangladesh Navy and Indian Navy on ensuring coastal security. “We can share the expertise of Indian Navy on coastal security,” she said when visiting Chief of Naval Staff of Indian Navy Admiral Sunil Lanba paid a courtesy call on the premier at her official...

The emergence of the politics of development

Shah Ali Farhad: Awami League, the oldest and largest political party in Bangladesh, celebrated its 69 years of founding in the early hours of 23 June 2018. That, in political time, is quite a long duration for any party to remain influential and most importantly, relevant in the fast moving politics of late 20th and early 21st century. A dura...

Awami League will upgrade rural people's lifestyle: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said her government will be able to upgrade Bangladesh’s rural lifestyle into urban one if the continuation of the government is maintained. “If there’s continuation of the government, I believe, we’ll be able to provide improved lifestyle to the people of every village like urban...

Awami League was born to serve people: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today warned all aspirants of her party in the next general election of the consequences of carrying out propaganda against each other while seeking nomination, saying such bad practice would disqualify them to get party ticket. Urging her party men to abandon mud sliding against the sitting parliament members or an...

HPM Sheikh Hasina reiterates request to Canada to deport Nur Chowdhury

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her request for deportation of Nur Chowdhury, one of Bangabandhu’s convicted killers, as she held a meeting here with her Canadian counterpart Justine Trudeau on Sunday. Bangladesh premier’s press secretary Ihsanul Karim said she called for Trudeau’s personal initiative for immediate...

Bangladesh would plunge into abyss if anti-liberation force comes to power: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh will plunge into an ‘abyss’ if the supporters of anti-liberation war criminals return to power. HPM spoke at an event organised by the Awami League’s Canada chapter in Toronto on Sunday after attending a G-7 session in Quebec. Prime minister highlighted the importance of Awami ...

Bangladesh's democracy stands on a strong foundation: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh’s democracy has stood on a strong foundation while its economy is now enough strong. “We’re advancing fast in all fields and our democracy has stood on a strong foundation, while the economy is adequate strong,” she said in her brief speech before an iftar mahfil here this aft...

No 'Godfathers' will be spared: HPM SHeikh Hasina

Iterating her firm stance on the ongoing countrywide drive against narcotics, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the people are now getting relief from such drives and none, even ‘godfathers’ and ‘dons’, would be spared in this regard. “The people of the country are getting relief from the anti-narcotics drive a...

Dhaka-Delhi to continue trend of cooperation in future: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called for full utilisation of mutual cooperation between Bangladesh and India and hoped that both the countries would continue this trend of cooperation in the future. "The 'far beyond strategic relationship' between Bangladesh and India is often considered as a 'model of bilateral relation' for the rest of t...

HPM Sheikh Hasina hosts Iftar for FFs, orphans, Ulamas and physically challenged children

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hosted an iftar for war-wounded freedom fighters (FFs), orphans, physically-challenged children and alem-ulema (Islamic clerics) at her Ganobhaban residence

Meet people's expectation with your services: HPM Sheikh Hasina to Police

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the police force to provide proper service to people according to their expectation."We want to see that our people get proper service from police and for this we are determined to make a smart, professional and public-friendly police force," she said. The prime minister was addressing the passing-ou...

Sheikh Hasina: Reflections of a citizen

Syed Badrul Ahsan The first time many of us came to know of Sheikh Hasina was on the day after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was freed from the Agartala Case and was released, along with his co-accused, unconditionally. On 23 February 1969, the Karachi-based newspaper Dawn carried a front-page picture of her hugging her father in what was c...

Govt formulating plans to turn Bangladesh into a developed country: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her government began works to formulate plans and action programmes to transform Bangladesh into a developed country during a set timeframe from 2021 to 2041. "We have started to devise the plan how we want to develop Bangladesh and how we want to look Bangladesh from 2021 to 2041," she told a reception hosted ...

Global Women's Leadership Award: Another achievement for HPM Sheikh Hasina

Another feather adds to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's crown as she received the Global Women's Leadership Award today for her outstanding leadership in women's education and entrepreneurship in Bangladesh, raising her total accolades to 33. The US-based Global Summit of Women conferred the prestigious accolade on Sheikh Hasina at a gala dinner...