Shah Ali Farhad: When the world turned away from one of the greatest refugee crises, despite its own limitations, Bangladesh played a major humanitarian role by sheltering over a million forcibly displaced Rohingyas. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina -- unlike many leaders of the developed world, too afraid to speak sympathetically about refugee is...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the employees of the public administration to work with innovative ideas and sincerity for the welfare of the grassroots people. “We want the Public administration employees to work in their respective field applying their innovative thoughts for development of the country,” she said. The pr...
Syed Badrul Ahsan: History took a decisive new turn for the Bengali nation on 23 June 1949.There were some courageous men - Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Yar Mohammad, Shamsul Haque, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and, of course, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy - whose names are today engraved in the Bengali consciousness. These men, grown acutely aware...
Forty-nine years ago, the nation had the dream for freedom. Then, Awami League was the party to lead the road to freedom. Now, the nation has another dream — seeing Bangladesh as a developed country by 2041. Once more Awami League is leading the country towards the goal. We are working to make life better for every citizen. It is because ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina suggested Myanmar to follow Bangladesh in maintaining religious harmony in Bangladesh. "I think that Myanmar should follow Bangladesh that how a country could be run by maintaining (traditional) religious harmony," she said. The prime minister was addressing a view-exchange meeting with the Buddhist religious...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her government began works to formulate plans and action programmes to transform Bangladesh into a developed country during a set timeframe from 2021 to 2041. "We have started to devise the plan how we want to develop Bangladesh and how we want to look Bangladesh from 2021 to 2041," she told a reception hosted ...
President Abdul Hamid has taken oath as the President of Bangladesh for the second consecutive term at a ceremony at Bangabhaban on Tuesday evening.Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered his oath of office in the presence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, among other dignitaries, at the Darbar Hall of Bangabhaban.The cer...
The Commonwealth leaders have expressed solidarity with Bangladesh over the Rohingya issue and demanded justice for the persecution of the minority group in Myanmar. “Heads expressed full solidarity with the Government and the people of Bangladesh affected by the influx of more than a million Rohingya from Rakhine State in Myanmar,”...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has placed a seven-point proposal to promote intra-Commonwealth trade, investment and innovation and urged the grouping to keep the trade regime open and transparent. "We should ensure that the trade regime remains open, rules-based, transparent, inclusive and fair," she said while taking part in an event titled "Co...
Bangladesh’s energy sector is going to achieve a new milestone next month towards achieving sustainable energy security. It is now all set for the commencement of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) supply to the national gas grid of Bangladesh from the first week of May 2018. The Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) to be owned and ope...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she was hopeful of solving the pending Teesta water sharing issue with India as Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Keshav Gokhale paid a courtesy call on her. "We've resolved many problems. Now one problem remains to be resolved is Teesta issue," Premier's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim quoted her as saying while br...
H.E President M Abdul Hamid hosted a reception at Bangabhaban marking the country's 48th Independence and National Day P.C: Saiful Islam Kallol
The adoption of a resolution by parliament on the observance of 25 March as Genocide Day raises the very critical question of the significance of the day. That question has nothing to do with the platitudinous or the emotional, though platitudes and emotions are always necessary components of the human experience everywhere. But now that we offi...
Visiting Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao highly praised Bangladesh's tremendous socioeconomic uplift under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, saying the country has an immense potentiality to emerge as an economic power in Asia."Bangladesh has immense potentiality to emerge as an economic power in Asia like Chi...
Bangladesh with its head held high emerged as an independent sovereign state thundering from the burns and ashes, destruction and demolition brutally wrought by the barbarous Pakistani occupation forces who left no stone unturned to appease their ugly lust and devilries from plundering and vandalism to rape and genocide, yet ultimately yielded t...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called for a massive restructuring of the country's education system integrating the knowledge-based and practical learning to further advance the overall development of the country. "A competent manpower is the main tool to carry out the development activities. So, technical and vocational education should graduall...
Soon after the historic election of December 7, 1970, I along with three of my classmates from Rajshahi Cadet College (RCC), went to Lahore to study there on “Inter-Wing Scholarships.”
On 10 May 2017, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) unveiled its so-called ‘Vision 2030’ as a roadmap of how they will govern the country if they are elected to power in the next national elections. As will be visible from the following discussion, while some of the proposals in the document are well meant especially given that BNP h...
After assuming power in 2014 for the second straight term, the present Awami League government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina earmarked on a host of mega infrastructural projects to transform the future of the country and to change the course of national progress for good. To this end, a good number of projects have been put under the Fast-...
The year 2014 was marked with a series of success stories of Bangladeshi nationals on the international arena. With Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina and her daughter Saima Wazed Putul on the forefront, the country's scholars including artist, scientist, entrepreneur and journalist leapt into the world wining international prizes for their signature ...
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