Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday inaugurated the newly constructed Ghorashal-Palash Urea Fertiliser Factory (GPUFF) in Narsingdi, the largest of its kind in the Southeast Asia, which is expected to help slash fertiliser imports significantly. She opened the environment friendly energy saving and modern technology based factory with production capacity of 9.24 lakh MT of fertilizer annually by unveiling the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today pledged to eliminate leprosy from the county by 2030, urging the local drug manufacturing factories to produce quality medicines for the treatment of leprosy patients. “We are firmly committed to erasing the leprosy from the country by 2030,” she said while opening the second national leprosy conference-2023 at a city hotel, reports BSS. The premier ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday placed five recommendations to stop the brutal Israeli aggression against Palestine that continues unabated, despite calls from global communities for an immediate end. She proposed the suggestions in a recorded speech broadcast at the 8th Extraordinary Islamic Summit kicking off on November 9 in Riyadh. The summit was convened at the invitation of the ...

World’s leading learning company and the UK’s largest awarding body, Pearson, in collaboration with the British Council, hosted its 10th High Achievers’ Award Ceremony on Saturday for students in Bangladesh who achieved outstanding results in their International GCSE and A Level examinations in 2022 & 2023. The Award Ceremony was held at the Hall of Fame of Bangabandhu International Conference ...

A total of 152 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed across the country to maintain law and order as the latest 48-hour countrywide blockade called by the BNP, Jamaat and like-minded opposition parties is underway. Shariful Islam, public relations officer (PRO) at BGB headquarters, confirmed the development on Sunday morning. Today, on the first day of the ...

Police said that blockade supporters torched the buses in Arambagh, Gabtali, Gulistan, and Jatrabari areas of the capital. According to the fire service, a passenger bus of Lal Sabuj Paribahan was set on fire in front of Notre Dame College at 8:20 pm. Upon receiving information, two units of firefighters from Siddique Bazar Fire Station promptly brought the fire under ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said BNP and its allies only know how to destroy the good things her government creates. “They (BNP and its allies) only know how to destroy, not to create. We create and they destroy,” she said. The prime minister said this while inaugurating the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar rail communication. Recalling the horrible days when BNP-Jamaat ...

Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan has said that a train can be run commercially from Dhaka to Cox’s Bazar and Cox’s Bazar to Dhaka from December. He made the remark while speaking at the inauguration of Chattogram’s Dohazari to Cox’s Bazar Rail Line project at Cox’s Bazar Railway Station on Saturday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the much-awaited 102km ...

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader Azad Hossain who was allegedly involved in putting seals on ‘Boat’ symbols of 43 ballot papers in 57 seconds during the voting in Lakshmipur-3 (Sadar) by-election has been sent to jail. Chandraganj police produced him before a court after arresting him under Section 54 early Saturday afternoon. Later, the court passed an order sending him ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday inaugurated 15 completed development projects, including Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal-Fired Power Project (2×600), and laid foundation stones of three other projects involving Tk 53467 crore. Prior to addressing a grand public meeting at Matarbari in Moheshkhali, she unveiled the inaugural plaque of the development projects around 3:45 in the afternoon, reports BSS. Earlier ...