12 Years of Progress under the leadership of HPM Sheikh Hasina

12 Years of Progress under the leadership of HPM Sheikh Hasina

Bangladesh moves two notches up in UNDP's Human Development Index

Bangladesh has moved two notches up in the human development index — to 133 — compared to last year, said a new report of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The report, titled The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene, launched in Bangladesh on Monday morning, six days after the global launch, includes ...

A Dream of 160 Millions Comes True

Pranab Kumar Panday: Bangladeshi people’s dream of Padma Bridge has come true with the installation of the 41st span. Just a very few people could conceive of a bridge constructed in the country on the Padma five years ago. The World Bank's decision to withdraw funding from the mega project on the fake ground of imaginary corruption thwar...

1971 … And The Songs We Sang

Syed Badrul Ahsan: It was early March 1971 when songs became part of the Bengali political consciousness. As the non-violent non-cooperation movement launched by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to counter the conspiracies of the Pakistan ruling junta against popular democratic aspirations progressed, Dhaka Radio introduced Bengalis to a rivet...

Cabinet approves Bangladesh Film Artists’ Welfare Trust Act, 2020

The cabinet, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, approved the draft of the “Bangladesh Film Artists’ Welfare Trust Act, 2020” to ensure overall welfare of the actors and actresses of country’s film industry and enhance their professional excellence. “The law has been formulated in line with the prime mi...

Bangladesh edging past India

Dr Ashikur Rahman: For nearly five decades, any discourse on South Asia was almost always focused on the bitter animosity between the two nuclear giants India and Pakistan, where the former was viewed as a large mystical country trying to establish its position in the global political and economic order -- and Pakistan as a strategically import...

Bangladesh 8th in receiving remittance in 2020: World Bank

World Bank, in one of its reports, projects that Bangladesh will see increased remittance flow and secure eighth position in the world in terms of it in 2020. WB revealed the prediction in the report titled "COVID-19 Crisis Through a Migration Lens" published on October 29. According to the projection, two South Asian countries will see an inc...

Government is making Bangladesh self-reliant: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said her government has taken responsibility for running the state to take Bangladesh to a more dignified position by making it self-reliant in every aspect particularly socioeconomically. “We have shouldered the responsibility of running the state to take Bangladesh to a more dignifi...

Will BNP ever change?

- Ajoy Dasgupta Awami League contestants Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh and Atiqul Islam have attained victories in the elections to the two city corporations in Dhaka. They deserve a hearty congratulation. They have challenges to overcome and the voters have made it clear. Around three-quarters of the voters were absent. There are several reasons be...