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Bangladesh Awami League's 'Career Workshop' draws huge response from youths

The Bangladesh Awami League’s plan to hold a ‘career workshop’ for the youths has drawn huge response with hundreds of young people registering online to participate in the initiative. The registration commencing on January 9 will continue till midnight on January 30. Interested applicants can still access the program by loggi...

No bigger festival than gifting home to homeless: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina believes the gifting of homes to the homeless and landless people of Bangladesh marks the biggest festival in Mujib Year, the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Sheikh Hasina handed over the keys to the new homes for 66,189 homeless families via video conference on Saturday. Speaking at the event...

HPM Sheikh Hasina thanks Indian PM Narendra Modi for COVID-19 vaccines

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday thanked her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for sending the Oxford vaccine produced in India as a gift for Bangladesh. “I’m thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sending the vaccine as a gift,” she said, adding that the procured vaccine will come soon from India as planned. The Pr...

5 canals in capital come back to life

Manda, Jirani, Shyampur, Segunbagicha and Panthapath canals in the capital are getting new life as Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) is restoring navigability and connection of the canals with rivers under a crash programme. The DSCC is also conducting cleanliness, boundary demarcation and eviction drives on both banks of the canals under the...

Bangladesh govt rolls out new stimulus package worth Tk 27 billion

The government has announced two more stimulus packages worth Tk 27 billion to help small, medium and cottage industries and expand social safety coverage. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has approved the new packages to cushion small businesses against the effects of the pandemic, the finance ministry said in a statement on Sunday. Bangladesh ha...