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 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...
While the world is reeling under an economic crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Bangladesh’s economy was able to escape a contraction in 2020 and its annual rate of GDP growth will continue to accelerate throughout the 2021-25 period, so says a think tank. Between 2021 and 2025, Bangladesh’s annual rate of GDP growth will accelera...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated the brand new Dash 8-400 aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, expressing her conviction to establish a strong regional connectivity cashing in on the country’s geographical location in Southeast Asia. “We want to establish strong connectivity with neighboring countries ...
Bangladesh has moved two notches up in the human development index — to 133 — compared to last year, said a new report of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The report, titled The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene, launched in Bangladesh on Monday morning, six days after the global launch, includes ...