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Give expats their due honor and ensure their safety: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry and recruiting agencies to take care of Bangladeshi expatriates. "Those who are involved in manpower migration -- from recruiting agencies to the ministry, I request you to give them (expats) the due honour and make sure they are not facing any prob...

Vitamin A-Plus Campaign 2020: A success story of Bangladesh, reports UNICEF

According to a recent report by the UNICEF Bangladesh, the Awami League Government was able to successfully conduct a nationwide campaign for administering Vitamin A Plus: 97% of the target age group or 20.8 million (more than 2 Crore) children received their dosage of Vitamin A Plus from October 4 to 17, with careful planning and additional saf...

Young students received free textbook on the first day of the year

Like every year, free textbooks have been handed over to the students in the academic year 2021 as the textbook distribution started all over the country including the capital on Friday. The book distribution process started at 9.30 am and continued till 4 pm. The students wearing masks on their faces entered the school grounds maintaining pro...

Mujib Barsha Webinar lauds Bangabandhu’s leadership strengths, Sheikh Hasina’s development focus

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...

Bangladesh's 'Mega Projects' move full-speed ahead despite COVID-19 setback

The coronavirus pandemic, an unprecedented crisis that has upended the world in 2020, has slowed Bangladesh's journey on the ‘highway of development’, but not thrown the country off track.   The construction of major infrastructures under government’s mega projects, such as the Padma Bridge, Dhaka Metro Rail an...