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Bangladeshi citizen awarded for showing civic responsibility in Qatar

A Bangladeshi national in Qatar was admired by the authorities concerned of Qatar for displaying his civic responsibility and humanitarian gesture. Bangladesh’s Ambassador to the State of Qatar Md Jashim Uddin appreciated the exemplary good deed of Mohammad Yasin by handing over a crest to him this morning at the Embassy of Bangladesh. M...

Cabinet approves Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Act, 2020

The cabinet has approved the draft of the “Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Act, 2020,” to replace the ordinance promulgated by the President a few days ago, keeping the provision of death penalty for rape. “The draft of the ‘Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Act, 2020’, which...

Ensuring food security is our top priority: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asserted that not a single person in the country will remain hungry as her government has attached top-most priority to increasing food production to ensure food security for all. “Our country is very small in terms of its land size while our current population is 165 million or around 17 crore. The most i...

Big disaster averted due to PM Sheikh Hasina's timely intervention: Speakers at AL's webinar

Speakers at a webinar have said Bangladesh has been able to avert a big disaster by coronavirus due to the timely intervention of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Shah Ali Farhad, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister, conducted the webinar titled ‘Encountering Coronavirus situation in Bangladesh under the leadership of premier Sheikh Hasi...

Cabinet approves death penalty for rapists

The cabinet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair has approved a draft law prescribing death penalty for rapists as a series of rape incidents sparked nationwide protests since last month. “The cabinet unanimously endorsed the amended law . . . prescribing capital punishment for rape instead of (existing) lifetime rigorous impris...

HPM Sheikh Hasina inaugurates All Weather Road in Kishoreganj

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has described the Itna-Mithamoin-Astagram Highway as a ‘gift’ on behalf of the “Honourable President” in the Mujib Borsho. “We give it as a ‘gift’ on behalf of the Honourable President in the Mujib Borsho,” she said while exchanging views virtually with the beneficiari...

HPM Sheikh Hasina places four proposals to save climate vulnerable nations

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called for ensuring 100 billion US dollars a year for developing countries to save them from climate change impacts as she placed a four-point proposal including “establishing climate justice” at a virtual “Climate Vulnerable Leaders’ Event”. She also informed that her government ...

HPM Sheikh Hasina unveils Braille version of Bangabandhu's autobiography

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has unveiled the Braille version of the autobiography of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman –“Oshomapto Atmojiboni” (The Unfinished Memoirs). She unveiled the cover of the book at a function from her official Ganabhaban residence on Wednesday (7th October) morning through a vide...

Sheikh Hasina the real champion of human security: Diplomats in Bangladesh

Diplomats in Dhaka on Saturday highly praised the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for taking the country to forward in a webinar marking her birthday. “I would say honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is a Real champion of human security,” Japanese ambassador Ito Naoki said. UN resident coordinator in Dhaka Mia Seppo s...

HPM Sheikh Hasina for economic diplomacy to boost country's trade

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the Bangladeshi diplomats to pursue economic diplomacy alongside political diplomacy to give a boost to the country’s trade and commerce. “The duty of diplomatic missions has changed in today’s world. Now economic diplomacy has surfaced alongside the political one. We have to pursue diplo...

Present challenges expose inadequacies of current world order: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the United Nations (UN) to formulate a “credible and practical roadmap” for delivering on commitments and responding resolutely to global challenges. “To take the UN on the right course towards its centenary and beyond, the world body should provide a credible and practical roadmap for de...

Sheikh Hasina's policy of leaving no one behind inherited from Bangabandhu: Radwan Mujib

Bangladesh's development in the last ten years has a lot to do with going back to its founding principles, said Bangabandhu's grandson and CRI's Trustee Radwan Mujib Siddiq today during the online launching of the policy magazine 'WhiteBoard'. Radwan, also the magazine's Editor in Chief, added that the policy of the current government of Pr...

Youths should be given a chance to take the country forward: Saima Wazed Hossain

Autism specialist Saima Wazed Hossain, the vice-chairperson of the Centre for Research and Information or CRI, has called for giving the youth a chance to take Bangladesh forward. Referring to how Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman became the founding father of the nation after getting involved in politics to safeguard the interests of his commu...

Bangladesh to host FAO's regional conference for the first time

Bangladesh will host the 36th Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) the first time since it joined the organisation in 1973. FAO is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque revealed the information at a...

17% electricity to come from renewable sources by 2041

Around 17 percent of Bangladesh's electricity will come from renewable energy sources by 2041, said State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid. State Minister said this during a virtual bilateral meeting with UK Minister for Pacific and Environment Lord Zac Goldsmith on Friday (28th August). They also discussed various...

Zia is the real villain behind Bangabandhu assassination: HPM Sheikh Hasina

 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today described Bangladesh’s first military ruler Ziaur Rahman as “real villain” of the August 15, 1975 plot while years later his wife Khaleda Zia emerged as another such figure as the August 21, 2004 grenade attack was carried out. The premier tended to compare the two incidents with the fi...

We weren't even allowed to talk about the grenade attack: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina believes the BNP-Jamaat-e-Islami coalition government's efforts to stifle any attempt by the Awami League to speak out against the grenade attack in 2004 points to their 'direct involvement' in the plot. Hasina made the remarks at a discussion organised by the Awami League, commemorating the 16th anniversary of the ...

Ziaur Rahman tried to take back Bangladesh to Pakistani era: speakers at Webinar

Speakers at the Awami League’s webinar today said Ziaur Rahman wanted to take back independent Bangladesh to Pakistani era after the heinous killing of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Terming the assassination of Bangabandhu on August 15, 1975 as most dreadful one in the history of Bangladesh, the speakers said Ban...

Sheikh Kamal could have given a lot to country: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Sheikh Kamal could give to the country much more if he remained alive as he made a significant contribution to the country’s politics, culture and sports with his multifaceted brilliance. “If Kamal (Sheikh Kamal) remained alive today he could have given the country many things. His all-round t...

Narendra Modi send Eid greetings to HPM Sheikh Hasina

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today sent a message to his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina, extending his warmest greetings to the people and the government of Bangladesh on the occasion of holy Eid-ul-Azha, to be celebrated tomorrow. “On the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, I would like to extend my warmest greetings to the people...