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Chawkbazar tragedy is a lesson to chemical warehouse owners of Old Dhaka: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the Chawkbazar tragedy appeared as a lesson for chemical warehouse owners in Old Dhaka, expressing her belief this time they would not decline to relocate their godowns elsewhere as insisted earlier. “I hope that those who earlier opposed to relocating their chemical warehouses from (crammed) old Dhak...

HPM Sheikh Hasina for delivering verdicts in Bangla

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has requested the judges to deliver the verdicts of lawsuits in Bangla taking into consideration the poor knowledge of most of the litigants in the foreign language. “Because of poor knowledge in English, most of the litigants need to depend on their lawyers to understand the verdict. The litigants have no sco...

Bangladesh-UAE sign four MoUs to promote relations in investment and power sector

Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) here on Sunday signed four memorandums of understanding (MoUs) to promote relations between the two countries in the areas of investment, business and power sector. The instruments were inked after a meeting between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and a 15-member UAE business delegation led by Minister...

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...