Nine commercial banks and one individual today donated 73,000 pieces of blankets to the Prime Minister's Relief and Welfare Fund for the cold-stricken people of the country.
Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi today expressed his country's eagerness to be a partner of the government's endeavors to build a digital Bangladesh by 2021.
Terming those who make derogatory remarks against Bangabandhu as "kulangar" (black sheep), Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina warned that this type of people would not be spared for such comments against the Father of the Nation.
Bangladesh for the first time will export 12,500 tonnes of rice to Sri Lanka as part of a agreement between the two countries to export 50,000-MT of rice to Sri Lanka.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon the newly-commissioned officers of Bangladesh Army to remain always alert and ready for safeguarding the country's hard-earned independence and sovereignty.