The cabinet has given approval to the draft of the "Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Policy, 2016" with six policy directives to ensure and encourage safe migration as well as protection of migrants and their family members.
In the first six months of the current 2015-16 fiscal, foreign exchange earnings from Bangladesh-made life saving drugs has touched the US$ 38,111,370 (Tk 3 billion) mark.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the world's big conglomerates to be part of country's economic growth and said today's Bangladesh is a different one from a half-a-decade ago.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed the authorities concerned to take necessary steps for setting up scout training centres in all divisions to further expand and strengthen the scouting movement in the country.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged people to keep confidence in 'boat', the election symbol of Awami League (AL), saying boat will give the countrymen peace, prosperity, development and economic emancipation.