Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said today the law would decide whether Khaleda Zia would be allowed to go abroad for medical treatment. “I have done whatever I can for Khaleda Zia. Now the law will decide the next course of action (regarding Khaleda’s overseas treatment),” she said while answering queries from the journalists in...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina believes Bangladesh has the capacity to manufacture the COVID-19 vaccine in the country and export it around the world. She outlined her experiences from her recent foreign tour and emphasised the international reaction to Bangladesh's COVID-19 response during a general discussion in parliament on Monday. "Our succ...
The World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) today named Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for its Eminent Persons Award for 2021 for her fight against fundamentalism, militancy and terrorism and her dedication to the Bangladeshi people's fundamental rights, dignity, self-sufficiency and prosperity. The award was decaled at the Wor...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the world community to forge a strong partnership for common good of global humanity seizing the current Covid-19 situation. Addressing a function at the UNESCO headquarters here on the occasion of 75th founding anniversary of the UN body, the Bangladesh premier said her government has been disseminating...
Prime Minister's ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has been conferred with “ASOCIO Leadership Award-2021” for his contribution to bringing unprecedented change in the country's ICT sector. On behalf of Sajeeb Wazed Joy, State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak received the award on Friday on the second day of World Cong...
Highlighting the disparities in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic between rich and poor countries, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for a change in the thinking and narratives around international development cooperation. She lamented the 'failure' of the international governance system to protect the interests of millions in the 'Gl...
Prime Minister's ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy on Thursday hoped that Bangladesh would lead the fourth industrial revolution as the country is marching forward following the target. "Bangladesh is marching towards the fourth industrial revolution. Bangladesh has the capability," he told a ministerial conference of the World Congress on I...
The MoTIV Creations Limited (Uganda) has won the maiden 2021 UNESCO-Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International Prize for the "Creative Economy". Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced the name of the winner and handed over the prize and certificates to the recipient while addressing the award distributing ceremony at the UNE...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the world leaders to ensure repatriation of Rohingya people to their homeland Mayanmar soon to escape security risks in the region and beyond worldwide. "The world must act seriously to make sure that these (Rohingya) people can go back to Myanmar soon. Otherwise, the security risks from the crisis will ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged UNESCO to put more emphasis on climate-related topics in education programmes in the wake of global warming. She also called for more technical support from the agency of the United Nations to raise awareness about the challenges created by climate change. “Climate change is a life-threatening reali...
Bangladesh and France signed three agreements on financial assistance and technical cooperation on the second day of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's five-day state visit to this friendly European country yesterday (Wednesday). As per two agreements, France will provide 330 million Euro to Bangladesh to support its development projects. Of the 3...
To cap Bangladesh's golden decade of development marking an amazing turnaround story, the government, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has introduced a global award with UNESCO to recognize contributions to "Creative Economy". The award takes the Bangladesh success story to the global stage and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to hand ov...
Laying emphasis on doubling bilateral trade volume by 2025, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today invited French businessmen to boost their investors in Bangladesh as the country sits at a strategic location among major economic centers in the Indo-Pacific. "French investment in Bangladesh is still modest compared to its global footprint. I invite...
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and French President Emmanuel Macron have discussed geopolitical and security issues in the Indo-Pacific region at a meeting in Paris. "France and Bangladesh shared the same vision for a free, open, peaceful, secure and inclusive Indo-Pacific region, based on international law and with shared prosperity f...
Bangladesh has reached a ‘dignified position’ on the global stage and will continue to prosper while maintaining it, says Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The holistic plans initiated by her government will never allow Bangladesh to ‘divert from its road to development’, Hasina said during a reception organised by the expat...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today invited the investors of the United Kingdom (UK) to be part of the developmental journey of Bangladesh by investing in a host of lucrative sectors. "… energy, renewable energy, shipbuilding, automobile, light engineering, agro-processing, blue economy, tourism, knowledge based hi-tech industries, ICT ar...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named as one of the five influential dealmakers at COP26 being held at Glasgow, according to a BBC report that described the Bangladesh leader as “voice of the vulnerable”. The four other influential dealmakers who will have a major impact on the summit's success or failure are China's climate n...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has emphasised the dangers facing climate-vulnerable countries due to the failure of the world's major carbon polluters to uphold their pledge to mitigate the damage. The Bangladesh leader made the remarks while presiding over a dialogue with leaders of the 48 member states of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) in G...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on the developed countries to set ambitious targets to cut carbon emissions and implement plans to stop the warming of the planet. Countries are obliged to submit Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs, to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change under the agreement signed in the 20...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) and the Commonwealth members to work together as no country is safe from the impact of climate change. "With more than one-third member states of the CVF also being the members of the Commonwealth, I firmly believe that joint efforts of the CVF and the Commonwealth memb...
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