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HPM Sheikh Hasina's statement at "South-South and Triangular Cooperation in Scaling up Innovation in Public Service Delivery" seminar

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has attended the seminar on "South-South and Triangular Cooperation in Scaling up Innovation in Public Service Delivery" organised by Bangladesh and UN office for South-South cooperation at the Conference Room of UN Headquarters on Tuesday. Here is the full speech by the Bangladesh premier. Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahi...

Trial of Mir Quasem Ali's war crimes

The International Crimes Tribunals were established by the Government of Bangladesh in 2009 for the purpose of bringing to justice the perpetrators of the crimes against humanity and genocide, including the well-identified masterminds, who actively collaborated as auxiliary forces with the occupying forces during our War of Liberation in 1971. ...

Bangladesh a Booming Economy: Writes Sajeeb Wazed in Diplomatic Courier

A remarkable economic surge, taken place over the last seven years under the Awami League government, has made Bangladesh stand out as an exception in South Asia for having rapidly elevated the country to lower dependency ratios and higher per capita income. According to a recent write up, published by Diplomatic Courier, by ICT advisor to HPM ...

Bangladesh Is A Role Model For Development: HPM Sheikh Hasina

I convey my heartiest greetings to my countrymen as well as to all expatriate Banglees on the occasion of the great Independence and National Day of Bangladesh. The 26th March is the day of earning self-identity of our nation.  It’s the day of breaking the shackles of subjugation. On the eve of the Independence, I recall with deep ...

Climate Change After Paris: Developed nations must do their part in the fight - HPM Sheikh Hasina

The Global Climate Risk Index ranks Bangladesh as one of the 10 nations most vulnerable to climate change. Each year, the impact of the global shift wipes out 2 to 3 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product and some 900,000 Bangladeshis have died over the past 35 years because of severe storms and natural disasters attributable to global ...