Elderly AllowanceBeneficiary: 4.9 millionBudget Allocation: $347 million Allowance for Widow and Destitute WomenBeneficiary: 2.05 millionBudget Allocation: $143.9 million Allowance for Insolvent Persons with DisabilityBeneficiary: 1.8 millionBudget Allocation: $191.1 million Stipend for Students with DisabilityBeneficiary: 100,000Budget Alloc...
The Communist Party of China (CPC) has conveyed its heartfelt congratulations and best wishes for the people of Bangladesh and the ruling Awami League on the occasion of the country’s 50 years of independence. The international department of the party’s central committee issued a press release in this regard on Tuesday. CPC remarke...
2020 was a significant year for Bangladesh. The country and its people were all gearing up to celebrate the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the golden anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence. The nation’s mood was optimistic. 2019 had been a good year, both economically and socially....
Major targets of the 8th five-year plan (2020-2025) formulated by Sheikh Hasina-led Bangladesh Awami League government - Economic growth rate to reach 8.51% by 2025 - 11.33 million people will get employed within 2025 - By 2025, 3.2 million people will be employed overseas - Poverty and extreme poverty rate will drop down to 15.6% and 7....
Pranab Kumar Panday: The year 2021 carries particular importance in Bangladesh's history as the nation is set to celebrate the birth centenary of its Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the golden jubilee of the country's independence. The UN CDP's decision to recommend Bangladesh, favouring its graduation in developing c...
The fiery March, month of independence, began today giving a heartbreaking reminder to the genocide that the Pakistani occupation forces carried out in the country from March to mid-December in 1971. The month of March is very significant in the country’s history as Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared the count...
Barrister Shah Ali Farhad: When Awami League won a landslide election led by Sheikh Hasina on 29 December 2008, it was bad bad news for some very crooked and powerful people: 1. The convicted killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib, whose appeals in the Supreme Court were intentionally stalled by the then BNP-Jamaat Government from 2001-06. Rememb...
The Bangladesh Awami League’s plan to hold a ‘career workshop’ for the youths has drawn huge response with hundreds of young people registering online to participate in the initiative. The registration commencing on January 9 will continue till midnight on January 30. Interested applicants can still access the program by loggi...
Laying emphasis on continuation of the ongoing pace of development works, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh becomes a dignified and self-reliant developing nation as the people have voted the Awami League government for a long tenure. “Bangladesh is no more known as the country of natural calamities, cyclone...
Ajoy Dasgupta: Ruling the country for over 12 years in a row is not the only feat that Awami League can be credited for. Rather, many countries and organisations across the world take note of their basket of achievements in socio-economic aspects. But, is everyone in Bangladesh willing to take any lesson from them? Before taking over as the pri...
Prime Minister and Bangladesh Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina said Bangabandhu's January 10, 1972 speech has all the guidelines required to run an independent state. "The January 10, 1972 speech of Bangabandhu at the Racecourse Maidan on his return to the country from Pakistani captivity has all the required guidelines to run an indep...
Speakers and guests have lauded the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s leadership strengths and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s politics of development at a webinar titled, ‘Liberation of Bangladesh and the Dream of Sonar Bangla’. The webinar was organised by the Bangladesh Embassy in Amman, Jordan as...
The bond between Bangladesh and India has passed the test of time, said Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh HE Vikram Doraiswami. During a meeting today with senior leaders of Bangladesh Awami League at the party's head office at 23 Bangabandhu Avenue, Indian HC Doraiswami said, 'Friendly relations between Bangladesh and India are based on t...
Bangladesh Awami League has announced the party candidates for the election to 61 municipalities. The names of the candidates were announced at a meeting of Bangladesh Awami League Local Government Public Representative Nomination Board held at the Prime Minister’s official Ganabhaban residence on Friday. President of AL Local Government...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her call to the countrymen to stay firm on non-communal spirit of the War of Liberation, saying people of all religious faiths will live in the country with equal right. “All people in combine have made the country independent in exchange of their blood . . . Freedom of pract...
Many conversations and a load of arguments have been going on around the recent spell of elections in Pakistan which have brought the until-now fringe party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf to power in Islamabad. There is little question that behind this 'phenomenal' rise of Imran Khan in politics has been the hand of the Pakistan army, which has in the...
A radical group is creating unnecessary debates over establishment of statues of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. These imaginary and baseless explanations are a challenge against the spirit of the Liberation War and the culture of Bangladesh. A group of religious fundamentalist group is spreading misinterpretation over th...
Syed Badrul Ahsan: Fifty years ago, in 1970, a general election took place in Pakistan. It was the country’s very first election in its twenty three-year history. It would have ramifications that are today part of the political narrative in our part of the world. It is important that, half a century on, we travel back to that year, the be...
Bangladesh Awami League paid rich tributes to Shaheed Noor Hossain by placing floral wreaths at the Noor Hossain Square at the Zero Point in the city. On November 10 in 1987, Noor Hossain, who imprinted his bare chest and back with the slogan “Swairachar nipat jak, gonotantra mukti pak” (down with autocracy, let democracy be freed),...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today urged all concerned to evaluate the party’s devoted workers who stayed with the AL in its crisis while forming new committees at all levels across the country. “Don’t keep away the dedicated workers, rather ease the path of doing politics for them as they will always stay wit...
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