Putting emphasis on building strong armed forces to safeguard the country's sovereignty, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh would always remain ready to give a befitting reply, if anyone attacks the country.
Bangladesh Navy has started its journey as a "three-dimensional force" as two submarines were commissioned in its fleet for the first time.
Commerce ministers of Commonwealth countries highly appreciated the advancement of Bangladesh in different sectors.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that those who have forgotten the genocide carried out by the Pakistani occupation forces and their local collaborators during the Liberation War have no right to stay in Bangladesh.
The Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) has unanimously adopted a resolution to observe March 25 as the "Gonohotya Dibos" (Day of Genocide) marking the brutality carried out by Pakistani Army on the unarmed Bengalis on the black night of March 25, 1971.