Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s pledge to provide housing to the country’s homeless people rolls on in full swing defying odds of pandemic and inclement weather.The long-time dream of over 53,340 homeless and land landless families to have their own homes is going to be fulfilled today (Sunday).The Prime Minister will inaugurate the second-phase distribution of semi-pucca houses marking the Mujib Year through a videoconference from her official residence Ganobhaban.The government has promised to provide a permanent address for every homeless...
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Bangladesh has urged the Member States and Dialogue Partners of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) to formulate and implement projects for economic cooperation relating to trade facilitation and liberalization, promotion of investment, scientific and technological exchanges. Bangladesh will assume the charge of the Chair of IORA from November 2021 for two year tenure, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Bangladesh has seconded a Director to IORA Secretariat recently. The 11th IORA bi-annual meeting of the Committee of Senior Officials...
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has blasted Siemens India for the company’s 30-month delay in completing work on 24 power substations in the capital city.Nasrul’s outburst came during inauguration of the newly constructed substations, each having 33-11 kV capacity, of Dhaka Electric Supply Company (Desco) on Thursday. “Please, reconsider awarding contracts to those bidders who delay or fail to complete the jobs as per schedule”, he told power sector officials in a virtually delivered speech.The...
Terming Bangladesh vulnerable to disasters such as earthquake, speakers at a discussion on Wednesday called for ensuring proper preparedness to minimize risks and destructions.Earthquake preparedness (both institutional and community level) techniques help save lives and minimize destructions, they said.Failure to ensure preparedness may culminate in huge loss of lives and properties, they mentioned at a roundtable at the conference room of East West Media Group Limited at Bashundhara in the city.BRAC and Bangla daily Kalerkantho jointly organized the event.State Minister...
President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday called upon the OIC member countries to make better use of science and technology in alleviation of poverty through sustainable development.“Science and Technology will work as a game changer in poverty alleviation and sustainable development,” he said while addressing the second OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) summit on science and technology.The virtual summit at Kazakhstan’s capital Nur-Sultan carried the theme “Science, Technology and Innovation: Opening New Horizons”.The president said the collaboration can be done on...
The government of Bangladesh has announced it will host the first ever virtual V20 Climate Vulnerables Finance Summit on July 8.The Summit will feature Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, heads of state from Climate Vulnerable Forum member countries, and V20 or the twenty most vulnerable countries’ finance ministers, to mobilize significantly more robust economic and finance responses to the spiraling dual crisis that increasingly affects the world’s most vulnerable economies. In close cooperation with the United Nations, the IMF and key...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of eminent industrialist and Kuliarchar Group chairman Mohammad Musa Miah.She prayed for the eternal salvation of departed soul and expressed sympathy to the bereaved family....
Enayetullah Khan, Editor-in-Chief of United News of Bangladesh and Dhaka Courier, and founder of Cosmos Group, has joined the National University of Singapore’s Medicine International Council (NIC) as a Distinguished Council Member.Kishore Mahbubani, Chairman of the NUS Medicine International Council, has extended the invitation to Enayetullah Khan.The NIC is an exclusive network of international leaders, academics, and experts who not only help address the greatest challenges in healthcare, public health policy, population studies, and ground-breaking research in cancer, diabetes, and...
Parliament on Wednesday passed the Child Daycare Center Bill 2021, seeking to support the children of professionals and working women as the number of nuclear families is increasing day by day.State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Fazilatun Nesa placed the Bill in the House and it was passed by voice vote.According to the proposed law, there will be four types of child daycare center in the country-Child daycare center to be run with government subsidy; daycare center to be...
The Aga Khan Academy in Dhaka will soon begin its journey with “globally minded but locally rooted” diversified students to develop future leaders for Bangladesh, officials said on Wednesday.“I’ve visited many educational institutions across the world. I can tell you, amazing things are going to happen on this campus,” said Theodore John Coburn, the Founding Head of the Academy in Dhaka, while describing the goal and facilities of the Academy to a small group of journalists.The goal of The Aga...
The government will take tough action against all those including ministers, MPs, businessmen and bureaucrats who are involved in corruption, said Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday.He said this during a regular briefing at his official residence in the morning.Claiming that the Anti-Corruption Comisison (ACC) is working as an independent investigation agency, the Awami League leader said that many ruling party MPs have also been convicted, no one is being freed and many of the AL men are...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the Special Security Force (SSF) will be developed as a modern force amid the changing patterns of crimes with the advent of advanced technologies.“We can develop our lifestyle using modern technologies. But the criminals engaged in terrorism and militancy also can commit crimes of new patterns using the technologies at the same time,” Hasina said. She was addressing a special darbar (gathering) arranged, marking the 35th founding anniversary of the Special Security Force...
