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PM urges youths to be self- dependent

  "Youths can take initiative for fisheries, poultry and dairy farming, horticulture, cultivation of cash crops, food processing industries and other self employment occupations," she said adding youths can make more money from these professions than they could have earn from a job. The Prime Minister said this while addressing the inaugur...

PM lays foundation stone of metro rail project

  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today laid the foundation stone of the country's first-ever metro rail project, opening up a new era in the country's communication system. The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone of the much- hyped metro rail project titled "The MRT Line-6 under the Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Development Project" fr...

PM for building a modern air force

    "As the head of the government I have given the air force as much as possible according to my capabilities. I will do everything necessary for building a modern air force in future Insha Allah," Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said this while addressing a "darbar" of the members of Bangladesh Air Force at BAF Base Bashar in Dhaka Ca...

Bangladesh should work with foreign companies for strengthening BAPEX: PM

  "Our manpower including engineers and officers will have to be given scope for work with foreign firms so that they could gather experiences and prepare themselves through work. I would like to tell the authorities concerned to strengthen the Bapex further and train up its manpower so that we could ourselves explore gas and oil," Prime M...

NPR strategy gets cabinet’s approval

  The government is going to prepare a National Population Register (NPR) to create a comprehensive database with full identification and other details of every sector and person. The cabinet in its regular meeting today has approved a planning document in this regard titled 'National Strategy for the Development of Statistics'.