State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said the government has chalked out a number of decisive moves to secure round-the-clock supplies of power for all citizens across the country by 2021.
Visiting Director General of World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Margaret Chan yesterday highly praised the achievements of Bangladesh in the health sector saying other countries in this region can follow the country in this field.
Health ministers of 11 Asian nations adopted the Dhaka Declaration, pledging to control and eliminate bacterial and viral diseases transmitted by blood sucking insects like mosquitoes.
Visiting Indian Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan Yerterday highly praised the health sector achievements of Bangladesh and said these successes could be utilized for development of the Indian health sector.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Yesterday put emphasis again on the framing of a national broadcast policy, saying that no institution could be run smoothly without the policy.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today expressed deep shock at the death of legendary Nazrul singer Feroza Begum.
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp, Japan's steel giant, is set to open a factory in Bangladesh this month in an effort to grab the growing steel market.
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury today greeted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on behalf of the Jatiya Sangsad for receiving the prestigious "Peace Tree" award from UNESCO for her outstanding contribution to women and girls education.
Bangladesh and India will swap all kinds of traditional medicines and also exchange experts and physicians for conducting trainings.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today stressed the need for the BIMSTEC to undertake time-bound and result-oriented programmes to meet hopes and aspirations of the people in the region.
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved 4 development projects including a project for improvement of power distribution system in Chittagong zone, to provide new connections to five lakh subscribers.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today handed over the prestigious UNESCO International Literacy Prize to the recipients for this year, marking the International Literacy Day.
Bangladesh will invite fresh block bidding for oil and gas exploration in the bay of the Bengal soon. “We have around seven blocks. After we modernize the PSC, we will go for bidding," State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid Bipu told reporters recently.
The Awami League government’s initiative “Ghore Phera Kormosuchi” (let’s go back to home) has made progress in turning around the families of the urban troubled slums. Initiated in 1998, the financial scheme has so far helped 987 families to return home and became self employed.
The World Health Organization is going to award Saima Wazed Hossain, daughter of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in recognition of her contribution in public health development in South-East Asian region.
Bangladesh has shown remarkable success in reducing child blindness by 50 percent, to 24,000 in 2014 from 48,000 in 2000.
The 54th council meeting and annual forum of Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO) started yesterday in Dhaka for the first time.
Health ministers from eleven countries of South-East Asia Region of WHO will attend a four-day meeting in Dhaka that starts tomorrow. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the program.
The cabinet today approved a proposal for converting city's Tejgaon industrial zone and its all main roads into an industry cum commercial and residential area.
UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova was today all praise for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her outstanding contribution to promoting girls and women education and raising literacy rate in Bangladesh.
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