The cabinet approved an amendment proposal for the National Hajj and Umrah Policy and Hajj Package-2016 (Hijri 1437) by doubling the number of Hajj pilgrims under the government management.
Recalling her return to Bangladesh in 1981 as the president of Awami League, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, "At that time I had none except you. Awami League was my family and I have got motherly and sisterly affection from them."
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the country's largest and top-security prison with modern facilities on the outskirts of the capital saying that the prisons, instead of merely using for detaining, should be made into correction centres.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon the South Asian leaders to take necessary steps to establish a "food bank" as soon as possible to ensure food security for all the people of the region.
Visiting SAARC agriculture ministers highly appreciated Bangladesh's tremendous success in socioeconomic field under the visionary and dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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