Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib played an unparallel role to shape the thoughts of her husband Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and she contributed extensively to Awami League and the nation’s long struggle for freedom, said academics. “Bangamata played a historic role in the life of Bangabandhu. After Bangabandhu, Bangamata h...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said her younger brother Sheikh Kamal had made extensive contributions in the country’s culture and sports arenas. “Sheikh Kamal had made a great contribution after the liberation which helped the country’s culture and sports reach today’s well-heeled position,” she said, taking p...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today handed over newly-constructed flats to 300 low-income families as they were living in slums, enabling them to avail civic amenities. She handed over the allocation papers of the new flats -- in three 14-storey buildings -- on a rental basis. The programme was held at Bangabandhu International Conference Centr...
Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) has received investment proposals amounting to around US$20.13 billion from 153 investors for the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar (BSMSN) in Chattogram for setting up their factories. The zones authority has already allocated over 6,000 acres of land among the investors. In BSMSN, BEZA has alrea...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the perpetrators behind the conspiracy in assassinating Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman would be unmasked one day. Addressing a programme virtually from her official Ganabhaban residence, Sheikh Hasina also renewed her vow to materialise Bangabandhu’s unfinished dream of build...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said she had instructed the authorities concerned to inoculate the people massively with Covid-19 vaccines to ensure protection of all. ‘We have started purchasing vaccines. Inoculation has already started. We have to ensure massive vaccination so that all the people of our country are protected. We...
The prime minister said running the state in this Covid-19 pandemic would have been impossible had the initiatives for Digital Bangladesh not been implemented. Sheikh Hasina said 27 July was a special day for her as her only son Joy was born on this day in 1971. Joining a function on the occasion of the National Public Service Day and distribu...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said Japan will send more than three million doses of AstraZeneca COVID vaccine under COVAX facilities in phases. “On behalf of Bangladesh, I would like to express our gratitude to Japan government and its people for the (vaccine) supply in this critical period,” he said. The foreign ministe...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today expressed Bangladesh's firm resolve to win the battle against coronavirus (Covid-19) and renewed her call to all to strictly follow the health guidelines to check the deadly virus. "We have been fighting against Covid-19 for more than one year. But, we've to secure victory in the war ... we must win the battle...
The Government of Hon. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is working to vaccinate 80% population of Bangladesh against Covid-19 by the end of next year. To that end, here are some important facts regarding the mass vaccination programme (updated till evening of 15 July 2021): a) 10.2 million+ people have registered for getting vaccinated; b) 10.9 m...
A resolution on the "Human Rights Situation of Rohingya Muslims and other Minorities in Myanmar" was unanimously adopted today at the ongoing 47th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. Since the massive influx of Rohingyas from Myanmar into Bangladesh in August 2017, this is the first time that any resolution on the Rohingya was adopte...
Hon'ble Prime Minister and daughter of Bangabandhu, Sheikh Hasina took the initiative to rehabilitate every landless and homeless people in the country on the occasion of Mujib Year. To implement the Prime Minister's announcement of 'Not a single person in the country will be homeless' in May 2020, the government formulated a 'policy to provide...
Stating that the promises made by the global leaders in the fourth world conference on women in Beijing in 1995 are yet to be fulfilled while the participation of women parliamentarians is 25 percent and in workforce less than 31 percent, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that bold policy measures and concerted actions could reverse the situatio...
Dawn Global has recently announced the launch of the Asian Growth Cubs exchange traded fund (ETF), the first active thematic ETF to focus on public equities in emerging and frontier growth markets, including Bangladesh. "When people read about how well the Bangladeshi economy is doing, they now will have a way to invest into the story,” s...
Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina today asked her party men to remain always beside the countrymen as vanguards so that none could play ducks and drakes with their fate anymore. “The fates of the people are being changed due to stay of the Awami League in power. We, all the Awami League leaders and activists, have to...
Bangladesh Awami League (AL) has called upon the youth to send greeting video messages on the occasion of its founding anniversary. The AL will celebrate its 72nd founding anniversary on June 23 next. On this occasion, the AL has been urging the youths of the country to send greeting video messages on their expectations to the party. To this ...
The independence of Bangladesh is rooted in the Six-Point Demand formula, the “Charter of Freedom” for Bangladeshis, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said, reiterating her pledge to build the country as a developed and prosperous one in line with the spirit of the Liberation War. “We [the Awami League] won the 1970 general ele...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today placed a Taka 6,03,681 crore national budget for fiscal year 2021-22 (FY22) in the Jatiya Sangsad with a 7.2 percent GDP growth target attaching priority to the lives and livelihood of the country’s people in tandem with development amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “In the budget for the next fisc...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the government is working to expand rail communication networks across the country, especially in areas having no railway. Besides, the government has also restored the rail connectivity with neighbouring India on different routes and planned to establish rail communication with Siliguri, she said. The premier...
Prime Minister's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed has highlighted how Bangladesh harnessed the power of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) to achieve its transformative socio-economic development during the last decade at the UN. Highlighting the success of the "Digital Bangladesh" vision of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, he said Bangladesh ...
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