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Ban Ki Moon for installing Climate Change Adaptation Centre in Bangladesh

Former UN Secretary-General and Global Commission on Adaptation chair Ban Ki-Moon today proposed the installation of a global centre for climate change adaptation in Bangladesh as he called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina along with Marshall Islands President Dr Hilda C Heine. “Bangladesh is the best teacher when comes...

Dutch Queen Maxima to digitize Bangladesh's retail payment system

Dutch Queen Maxima has proposed to digitize the retail payment system in Bangladesh and assured Dhaka of giving necessary assistance to this regard. The proposal was made when she met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Ganobhaban on Wednesday evening. After the meeting, PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed the m...

Govt working to build a strong capital market: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her government has been working to build a strong and stable capital market giving necessary financial education and all possible protection to investors as she opened a regional seminar on investors’ promotion. “The present government is working on creating a strong Capital Market, which will ...

WEF to arrange event of Bangabandhu's birth centenary

The World Economic Forum (WEF) will arrange an event in Bangladesh next year on the occasion of the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Besides, the WEF will hold a programme in Davos of Switzerland in 2021 focusing on Bangladesh and Bangabandhu. As a country, Bangladesh will be the main focus of the Davos...

HPM Sheikh Hasina proposes five points concerning weaker economies

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina placed a five-point proposal to address the key concerns of smaller communities and weaker economies for their collective takeoff endeavours, which she felt crucial for a sustainable global economy. “We sometimes look just in terms of the capacity of a few large economies or their needs,” she told the Wo...