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Protect biodiversity in the villages: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her government has been working to make all the villages beautiful in a planned way by ensuring all the civic amenities alongside protecting bio-diversity as dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. “It is needed to arrange all the villages across the country in a beautiful manner...

Khaleda Zia had a condolence message ready: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Sheikh Hasina has said her arch political rival Khaleda Zia had a condolence message ready being certain she would die in the Aug 21, 2004 attack, which could not be carried out without the support of the BNP-Jamaat-e-Islami government. Hasina, the then opposition leader and now the prime minister, recounted the grisly attack on its 15th annive...

Midday meal in all govt primary school by 2023

The cabinet has approved the draft of the National School Meal Policy, 2019 setting a target to bring students of all government primary schools under universal midday meal coverage by 2023. The approval was given at a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair at the Prime Minister’s Office here on Monday. “We have app...

Undertake development projects on a priority basis: HPM Sheikh Hasina to govt officials

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the ministries to undertake development projects on a priority basis for implementation of the annual budget properly and accelerating the country’s uplift. “The ministries will have to fix priority that which development schemes are needed first and accordingly, they will have to start the wor...

HPM Sheikh Hasina for focusing on economic diplomacy in Europe

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the Bangladesh envoys in European countries to pursue the economic diplomacy alongside the political one as she joined the first-ever Bangladeshi envoys conference in the British capital here. “We need to focus more on economic issues besides political diplomacy so the ongoing dev...