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Bangladesh elected to UN Commission on Status of Women

Bangladesh has been unanimously elected a member of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) for a four-year term, 2024-2028. The election was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York yesterday. Along with Bangladesh, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Mali, Romania, Bolivia, Brazil, and Colombia have also been elected to th...

Govt to assist Bangabazar businesses to recover from fire damages: PM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government will assist the Bangabazar businesspeople as much as possible after estimating the damages caused by Tuesday's fire. "I've already assured that we will help them as much as we can. We'll assess who incurred how much loss," she said addressing an event at her official residence Ganabhaban. ...

Embedded Journalism: Prothom Alo & the history of intimidation of journalists in Bangladesh

BNP leaders and activists brutally beat up the journalists whom they had invited to an Iftar event in Pallabi the capital on March 31. This is not the first time that such an incident has occurred. Last year on September 26, during a rally in Dhanmondi, BNP leaders recklessly attacked journalists, breaking the cameras of television journalists. ...

Agriculture to be mechanised through multipurpose cooperatives: PM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government will mechanise the agriculture through multipurpose rural cooperatives to boost production of food and other crops. "We are taking an initiative to mechanise the agriculture through multipurpose rural cooperatives system which was initially taken up by the Father of the Nation Bangab...

‘You set an example of empathy, generosity for the world’: Biden writes to PM Sheikh Hasina

US President Joe Biden has said his country made a commitment to finding long-term solutions to the Rohingya refugee crisis and holding perpetrators of the atrocities accountable. “You set an example for the world of empathy and generosity in practice,” the US President wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The US Emba...