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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be awarded with the prestigious Global Women's Leadership Award in recognition of her leadership role in expansion of women education and women entrepreneurship in Bangladesh, Asia and Asia-pacific region. Global Summit of Women, a US-based NGO, will confer the award, a lifetime honour, to the Bangladesh premie...
HPM Sheikh Hasina has met Narendra Modi in London on the sidelines of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The two leaders discussed different issues, including bilateral ones, at the Lancaster House on Thursday, Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque told the media. “India has changed its stance much on the Rohingya issue. They are very ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has put forward a proposal to reform the Commonwealth by revitalising its secretariat to make the 53-member body much more relevant in the current global context. "We appreciate that the Group (High-Level Group or HLG) is dealing with important questions of prioritising member states developmental challenges, fundin...
The Commonwealth leaders have expressed solidarity with Bangladesh over the Rohingya issue and demanded justice for the persecution of the minority group in Myanmar. “Heads expressed full solidarity with the Government and the people of Bangladesh affected by the influx of more than a million Rohingya from Rakhine State in Myanmar,”...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has placed a seven-point proposal to promote intra-Commonwealth trade, investment and innovation and urged the grouping to keep the trade regime open and transparent. "We should ensure that the trade regime remains open, rules-based, transparent, inclusive and fair," she said while taking part in an event titled "Co...
Viewing stability as the key to the future of Asia, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the Asian leaders to build bridges and strive for connectivity to make the region more peaceful and stable for its further development and prosperity. "Indeed, we believe stability to be the key to the future of Asia. For that, we need to build bridges,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the Commonwealth leaders to make efforts to build a future where global peace and women empowerment will remain as the cornerstone to create a society free from poverty, discrimination and conflict.She also laid importance on imparting proper education to women for their empowerment in society. "Withou...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the bank authorities to bring down interest rate to a single digit to expedite investment in the country. "I would like to tell you to cut interest rate, otherwise investment is not possible in the country ... it must be brought down to a single digit," she said while receiving donation for her Relief and Welf...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today renewed her call to the countrymen to be economical in using electricity saying that the government has to spend a huge amount of money to produce it. "You'll have to be economical in using electricity ... we want that the people to use it properly," she said while opening Bheramara 410-MW Combined Cycle...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she was hopeful of solving the pending Teesta water sharing issue with India as Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Keshav Gokhale paid a courtesy call on her. "We've resolved many problems. Now one problem remains to be resolved is Teesta issue," Premier's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim quoted her as saying while br...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated just-completed four road development projects in Cumilla expressing her firm optimism that Bangladesh would advance further keeping its head high."We're a victorious nation ... we'll move keeping our head high and materialize Bangabandhu's dream of establishing a developed and prosperous Sonar Bangla (Gol...
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