Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the authorities concerned to ensure desired healthcare services for the people at the hospitals of the country. The Prime Minister issued this directive while witnessing the presentation of a model on expansion and modernisation of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) at her office here this aft...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved 14 development projects involving Taka 6,228.49 crore including one project to ensure cent percent electrification under Comilla zone with Taka 1,521.76 crore. The approval came from the 16th ECNEC meeting of the current fiscal year held at the NEC conference room in ...
Urging the people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region to maintain peace and discipline, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has assured that they (people) would enjoy the ownership of their land in the area. "Development is not possible without maintaining peaceful atmosphere ... so, keeping this in mind, I call upon all to work together to thi...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought more Canadian investment for mutual benefits of the two countries."We need more investment for rapid economic development and we're setting up 100 special economic zones in the country with various facilities to attract more investment and generate employment," she said.In this connection, the prime minist...
Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina said the people will resist the BNP-Jamaat like the previous time if they try to foil the election this time. "The BNP-Jamaat made allout efforts and unleashed terrorist acts to resist the 2014 elections. But their movement didn't get public support, rather they (people) put up resistance...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has compared the comments of Khaleda Zia about the Padma Bridge with the raving of a mad. "The honourable speaker, I think it's good to accept it as the delirium of a mad," she said replying to a supplementary raised by Awami League lawmaker Begum Fazilatunnesa Bappi in her question answer session. BNP Chairperson ...
Issuing a strong warning against destructive politics like killing, fire terrorism and vandalism, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said those who will be involved in such destructive acts will be contained with iron hands. "Burning people to death and unleashing terrorism and vandalism cannot be a political programme ... we'll never tolerate such h...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved 13 projects involving an overall estimated cost of Taka 12,415.79 crore including one project to ensure infrastructural development of some 3,250 private secondary schools across the country with Taka 5,237.38 crore. The approval was given at the 14th ECNEC meeting of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked police personnel to be friendlier to people in discharging their crucial role as protectors of law as Bangladesh Police launched its annual Police Week. "You'll have to build yourselves as more public-friendly keeping in mind that you are members of the police force of an independent country," the prem...
Visiting French special envoy and former Director General of World Trade Organization (WTO) Pascal Lamy expressed his optimism that Bangladesh will support France to host the World Expo-2025 considering "extremely vibrant" relations between the two countries."In present situation, France and Bangladesh are well-aligned ... Our bilateral relation...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accorded a reception to Bangladesh girls' football team for clinching the title of the inaugural edition of the SAFF Under-15 Women's Championship, saying that they've brought huge honour for the country. "Becoming unbeaten champions in the SAFF Under-15 tournament by defeating India twice was not an easy ta...
Coming down heavily on Khaleda Zia for her comments about the Padma Bridge construction, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said making this nonsense remarks, the BNP leader has understood that she has no ability to build such a bridge."Any person who has a little bit sense and who has some knowledge in his or her head must not utter those words...
The cabinet has approved the proposed National Mental Health Act-2017 to replace a 105-year old lunacy law with the draft suggesting stern punitive actions against provoking mental patients to commit crimes and running unlicensed facilities for lunatics. The cabinet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair approved the proposed law in its...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said her government doesn't want to build a "work-reluctant" nation, rather it wants that everybody who has work ability to utilise this strength for the country's socioeconomic development."We never want Bangladesh be built as a work-reluctant nation. Rather, we want that everybody who has work ability and str...
A total of 11,104 megawatts (MW) of power have been added to the national grid in the last nine years, facilitiating 83 percent of the country's total population access to electricity, according to official sources."The electricity generation capacity reached 16,046 MW and now 83 percent people are getting power facility across the country. In t...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a total of 16 projects, including establishment of a naval base in Patuakhali, involving Taka 5,221 crore. The ECNEC approved the projects at its 13th meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair at the NEC conference room in city's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the exporters to make their level best efforts to find new markets of Bangladeshi products abroad for further expansion of overseas trade saying it's essential to accelerate current economic growth. "To expand the trade volume, you have to find new markets, develop quality products, enhance productivity, brand...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought public mandate again for Awami League in the next general elections saying it was the only political party in the country which could take forward Bangladesh in all fronts. "The Awami League is the only party which has the vision to move forward the country in all areas of development and the party has pr...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved the 'Procurement of 20 meter-gauge diesel-electric locomotives and 150 meter-gauge passenger carriages for Bangladesh Railway' with an estimated cost of Taka 1,799.11 crore. Bangladesh Railway will implement the project by June 2021. Of the total project cost of Taka ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the officials of the administrative cadre to look into the problems of the local people in their assigned areas and work with devotion to resolve those alongside doing their usual official duties."The officials who work in the field level administration should have utmost sincerity to resolve the problems o...
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