June 06,2010

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave for Nigerian capital Abuja early tomorrow to attend the 7th Developing-8 Summit on Thursday. Under the theme "Enhancing Investment Cooperation Among D-8 Members" the summit is likely to approve the Offer List of D-8 Preferential Trade Agreement. The meet involves private sectors apart from the D-8 heads of state and government, foreign ministers and bureaucrats. The daylong summit will create an opportunity for the eight heads of state and government to hold bilateral meetings on its sidelines. The D-8 is comprised of Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey. In the summit, Malaysia will hand over the chairmanship to Nigeria. The prime minister is expected to return home in the early hours of July 10

Sister Prema, Director of Mother Teresa Centre called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

July 04,2010

A 13-member delegation led by Sister Prema, Director of Mother Teresa Centre, yesterday called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Gono Bhaban in the city. Sister Prema gave an album to the Prime Minister containing her photographs with Mother Teresa. Describing various human qualities of Hasina, she said the human qualities and activities of Sheikh Hasina have similarities with Teresa. The delegation will visit 13 monasteries run by Mother Teresa Centre on the occasion of the 100th birth anniversary of Mother Teresa. Paying deep respect to Teresa, Sheikh Hasina said Teresa served the mankind as an expatriate leaving her motherland. The people of the whole world will remember her with profound respect throughout the ages for her qualities, she added. Referring to different programmes taken by her government for welfare of the persons with disabilities, Sheikh Hasina said separate beds have been arranged for the persons with disabilities in hospitals. Besides, better healthcare facilities have been ensured for children in every hospitals, she added. The prime minister said her government has a plan to set up a centre at each division like Paralysed Rehabilitation Centre at Savar.

June 03, 2010

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has alleged opposition BNP of siding with the war criminals of 1971."They have become restless just as the government is moving to prosecute the war criminals, “she said on Saturday while inaugurating an extended meeting of Swechchhasebak League. Sheikh Hasina said (BNP's) real face had surfaced alleging that the main opposition had lent its support to the war criminals, without naming the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami. BNP has recently declared that it endorsed Jamaat's protests against the arrest of its top leaders. She said the motive of the opposition leader is to safeguard the corrupt quarters and war criminals and secure her possession of the cantonment house. "The government is having a hard time providing accommodation for military personnel but Khaleda Zia continues to occupy 180 kathas (290 decimals) at the heart of the cantonment." The prime minister called upon the BNP chief to vacate the cantonment house and shift to her house in Gulshan. The two-time prime minister was served a legal notice last year to vacate the cantonment house. The three-acre compound was originally official residence of the deputy chief of army staff, a position then held by Ziaur Rahman, who later became army chief, martial law administrator and then president. After the murder of Ziaur Rahman, in a military coup in 1981, his widow Khaleda was also given a house in Gulshan in addition to the cantonment house which the family had been occupying since the 1970s. Sheikh Hasina on Saturday also condemned BNP's countrywide June 27 hartal and violence by pro-hartal pickets. BNP allegedly torched a taxicab in Dhaka on the eve of the hartal in which two people were burnt severely. Among them one Faruk Hossain died on July 1. Sheikh Hasina quoted Faruk telling her at the hospital that the picket had poured petrol on him and set him on fire as he tried to get out of the taxi. "You can enforce hartal. But why do you have to kill people?" the PM questioned.  

July 03,2010

Awami League announced a two-day protest programs demanding trial of the BNP and Jamaat activists for “killing, terrorism, bombing and arson, and obstructing trial of the war criminals. “The programmes include protest in the metropolitan cities and district headquarters today, while at thana and upazila headquarters tomorrow, said a party press release. It said the Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) has urged all independence and democracy loving people to make the programs a success through greater participation. “The identified undemocratic forces, in the guise of politics and democracy, sprayed petrol on a taxicab the night before June 27 hartal and set fire to it. As a result, Faruk Hossain and Sumon sustained serious burn injuries,” the release said.