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Japan-Bangladesh signed 8 agreements including metro rail, defense cooperation

Dhaka and Tokyo on Wednesday signed eight instruments on the second day of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's four-day state visit to Japan at the invitation of her Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida. Those were signed on agriculture, metro rail, industrial upgrade, ship recycling, customs matters, intellectual properties, defence cooper...

Govt must try killings in military during Zia's regime: PM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said her government must hold the trials of the mass killings of military officials during the regime of military dictator Ziaur Rahman and the arson terrorism sponsored by the BNP-Jamaat clique from 2013 to 2015. "I have no word to console you. I am one of you as I heard one day that I have nothing (after ass...

Political leadership, not a military rule, the key to Bangladesh's prosperity: PM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday (16 April) said that political leadership and decision- and not military rule -- is the most important matter for a country to prosper. "Whenever our country was outside this political decision, which means under direct or indirect military rule, it did not register its development and prosperity. The peop...

There would be no extreme poor in Bangladesh: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina said "There would be no extreme poor in Bangladesh". She said the Awami League government is doing everything possible that include giving houses free of cost, reaching healthcare services to people's doorsteps and increasing the education rate for changing the fate of the country...

Article 70 gives stability to government: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came down heavily on a few parliament members as they are advocating against Article 70 in the Constitution despite the article having given sustainability to the government and thus the development. "Article 70 has given protection to democracy alongside further strengthening it to reach its benefit to the people. B...