Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the electronic payment system G2P (Government to Person) for disbursement of the allowances of Social Safety Net (SSN) programs for marginalized people including elderly and physically challenged persons and widows. Under the system, more than 6.6 million beneficiaries would directly draw the money e...
Director General of International Organization for Migration (IOM) William Lacy Swing said IOM would extend all-out support to Bangladesh for repatriation of the displaced Rohingyas to Myanmar. The IOM DG gave the assurances in a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office here on Monday. William Lacy Swing led a six-member delegati...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant is being constructed with taking full security measures, adding the design of the plant has been developed in such a way that it will not succumb to any accident – natural or man-made. Highest measures are being undertaken to avoid any sort of risk for the people, she said,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has offered the Singapore investors 500 acres of land in the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) for setting up industries. The prime minister made this proposal when visiting delegation of Singapore Business Federation (SBF) called on her at her Sangsad Bhaban office on Tuesday. Chairman of the Singapore Business Federa...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved six projects including an amended proposal on the project for the construction of a permanent trade fair centre at Purbachal. The approval came from an ECNEC meeting held at the NEC conference room on Tuesday with ECNEC Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in ...