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New generation to carry forward Bangladesh-Japan partnership: PM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid deep homage to the Japanese who raised voice during the great War of Liberation of Bangladesh and hoped the new generation would carry forward the 'lasting friendship' and 'enviable partnership' between the two country in the years to come . "I am confident that the people of Japan will always be on our si...

With its pragmatic vision, Bangladesh is going to be the regional hub for investment: PM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh is going to be a regional hub for investment, industrialization and export due to the government's pragmatic policies, calling for more Japanese investment in larger volumes. "With our pragmatic policies and Vision, Bangladesh is guaranteed to emerge as a regional hub for investment, industriali...

Bangladesh-Japan relations turn into 'Strategic Partnership': PM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh and Japan have successfully elevated the bilateral relations to a "Strategic Partnership" from the existing "Comprehensive Partnership". "Prime Minister Kishida and I have discussed today the entire gamut of our bilateral relations. We are happy that Bangladesh and Japan have successfully eleva...

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...

Prothom Alo is enemy of democracy and people: PM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday came down heavily on the Prothom Alo saying that the Bengali language daily is the enemy of her ruling Awami League party, democracy and the people of the country. "The name of the paper is Prothom Alo (first light), but it lives in darkness. Prothom Alo is the enemy of democracy and the people of the coun...

Bangladesh elected to UN Commission on Status of Women

Bangladesh has been unanimously elected a member of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) for a four-year term, 2024-2028. The election was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York yesterday. Along with Bangladesh, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Mali, Romania, Bolivia, Brazil, and Colombia have also been elected to th...

Govt to assist Bangabazar businesses to recover from fire damages: PM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government will assist the Bangabazar businesspeople as much as possible after estimating the damages caused by Tuesday's fire. "I've already assured that we will help them as much as we can. We'll assess who incurred how much loss," she said addressing an event at her official residence Ganabhaban. ...

Embedded Journalism: Prothom Alo & the history of intimidation of journalists in Bangladesh

BNP leaders and activists brutally beat up the journalists whom they had invited to an Iftar event in Pallabi the capital on March 31. This is not the first time that such an incident has occurred. Last year on September 26, during a rally in Dhanmondi, BNP leaders recklessly attacked journalists, breaking the cameras of television journalists. ...

Agriculture to be mechanised through multipurpose cooperatives: PM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government will mechanise the agriculture through multipurpose rural cooperatives to boost production of food and other crops. "We are taking an initiative to mechanise the agriculture through multipurpose rural cooperatives system which was initially taken up by the Father of the Nation Bangab...

‘You set an example of empathy, generosity for the world’: Biden writes to PM Sheikh Hasina

US President Joe Biden has said his country made a commitment to finding long-term solutions to the Rohingya refugee crisis and holding perpetrators of the atrocities accountable. “You set an example for the world of empathy and generosity in practice,” the US President wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The US Emba...

Recognise 25th March as 'International Genocide Day: HPM Sheikh Hasina urges the global community

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina today called upon the world community including the United Nations to recognise March 25 of 1971 as International Genocide Day. "The Pakistan occupation forces committed killings since this day (March 25, 1971). We want the 25th of March to be recognised as International Genocide Day. ...

Ashrayan project creates hope for homeless

The homeless people who got their permanent abodes today under the Ashrayan-2 Project are now dreaming of becoming self-reliant as they have found a favorable environment for generating livelihood options - cultivating vegetable, rearing domestic animals and running small shops on their homesteads. Since the Ashrayan Project is dubbed as 'Sheik...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hands over 39,365 more houses to homeless people

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today handed over 39365 more houses to homeless people ahead of the holy Eid-ul-Fitr as part of her government's aim to ensure housing for all landless persons. The premier handed over the houses in the fourth phase of Ashrayan-2 project through a programme virtually from her official Ganabhaban residence here. Ear...

We don't take any unnecessary loans or big projects: HPM Sheikh Hasina in an interview with CNN

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh is close to everyone, not just any one country. "We're close to everybody -- China, USA or India. Those who support our development, we're with them," she said in an interview with the US-based Cable News Network (CNN) aired today (Tuesday). The premier made this remark when CNN journalist Ric...

HPM Sheikh Hasina inaugurates Bangladesh's first submarine base

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the first submarine base of Bangladesh ‘BNS Sheikh Hasina’ at Pekua in Cox’s Bazar on Monday. Hailing the newly inaugurated naval base as an ‘ultra-modern submarine base’, Prime Minister called the event a proud chapter in the history of the Bangladesh navy. Inaugurating the...

HPM Sheikh Hasina for new global markets for Bangladeshi goods

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked all concerned to find a way out to ensure sustainable export growth and explore new global markets for Bangladeshi goods in the context of Ukraine war. "Steps will have to be taken to achieve sustainable export growth after analysing situation steamed from the global economic recession due to the war in U...