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HPM Sheikh Hasina for Upazilla development plan

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the LGRD ministry to sketch out a master plan to build up all upazila under a specific development design aimed at protecting cropland and check sporadic construction of buildings, roads and other structures. “Unplanned development of the upazilas should be regulated and roads and ways of the upazi...

Sheikh Hasina is an exemplary leader: Angelina Jolie

American actress Angelina Jolie has praised Sheikh Hasina’s leadership as “exemplary” for keeping Bangladesh’s border open for the Rohingyas who have fled violent persecution in Myanmar. She says the world needs more leaders like her. The special envoy of the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR paid a courtesy call on the p...

Angelina Jolie Visits Bangabandhu Museum

On 6th February 2019, the visiting Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and renowned Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie made a visit to the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi Road 32, Dhaka. She was briefed about the history of the Father of the Nation and given the ...

ASEAN to be more engaged in Rohingya repatriation: Indonesian FM to Prime Minister

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will be more engaged in the repatriation of the Rohingya people from Bangladesh. Visiting Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno L. P. Marsudio informed this today when she paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her Jatiya Sangsad office here this evening. After the meeting, PM&rsq...

Govt. to continue strengthening Bangladesh Police: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed her government’s firm resolve to make Bangladesh Police a people-friendly organization saying the government would continue to enhance its strength in accordance with prevailing demand. “In 2009, the police-people ratio stood at 1:1355 — But our government has raised it to 1:801,&rdqu...