The government would modernize 8,500 post offices as e-centres across the country by June, 2017 to disseminate information and communication technology services to the rural people.State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak said this on Sunday on behalf of State Minister of the Post and Telecommunications Tarana Halim while replying to question from a treasury bench member Jebunnesa Afroz in the Jatiya Sangsad.The government has undertaken different projects to modernize the post offices through introducing express mail...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said some 900 volunteers would help police for managing traffic during the...
Home Minister and Vice-President of Dhaka North City Awami League Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Friday said Awami League is predetermined to hold its 20th national council in a descent and smooth manner in accordance with the people’s expectations.“The responsibility of the Discipline Sub-committee is the most significant one in completing our party’s national council in a descent and smooth manner to fulfil people’s expectations. Many local and foreign guests will attend the council. With the completion of our national council...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said all outstanding bilateral issues with India, including the Teesta agreement, would be resolved maintaining friendly relations with the neighbouring country.“We have to realize our dues maintaining friendly relations,” he said while speaking as chief guest at the triennial conference of Bangladesh Hindu, Bouddha, Christian Oikkyo Praishad at Institute of Engineers auditorium in the city.The conference was chaired by Parishad President and lawmaker Ushatan Talukder while it was addressed, among others,...
State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Advocate Tarana Halim expressed hope that Bangabandhu Satellite-1, the country’s first-ever satellite project, will be launched from Florida in the USA in December this year if the weather remains well.“Almost 88 percent works of Bangabandhu Satellite have already been completed. Equipment testing will begin in September this year,” she said this on Saturday while visiting the progress of construction of ground station of the satellite in Gazipur....
Bangladesh has become a ‘role model’ in the world for increasing crop production significantly in the past few decades, making the country self-reliant for staple food-grains.The country has also ranked the third in vegetable production and forth in fish production in the world. Eminent agriculture experts have attributed the striking development to the policy of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, which current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has also been pursuing for years with attaching top priority to the agriculture sector. In...
