Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold talks with tea estate owners Saturday as the workers at the country's 167 tea plantations continued their indefinite strike for the 18th day Friday for raising their wages to Tk 300 from Tk 120. The workers abstained from work today, but they did not stage
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Five years of forced displacement of Rohingyas to Bangladesh
The protracted Rohingya crisis has stepped on the sixth year on Thursday without a single Rohingya repatriated to their homeland. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina saved the world from a humane catastrophe in 2017 by sheltering these persecuted people. Bangladesh has been carrying the load in terms of providing humanitarian assistance and
Polish PM to discuss security, energy crisis with France’s Macron
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Thursday he would visit Paris on Monday to discuss the situation in Ukraine, defence cooperation and energy issues with French President Emmanuel Macron. "First of all, we will talk about security issues, because France is an important partner ... Strengthening (NATO's) eastern flank will
WB lauds Bangladesh development under PM Hasina’s leadership
The World Bank's outgoing country director Mercy Miyang Tembon on Wednesday highly appreciated Bangladesh's overall socioeconomic development, including women empowerment under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Tembon said this during her farewell call on the prime minister at her official residence Ganabhaban. Prime Minister's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed
Plots to kill Sheikh Hasina: Obaidul Quader
Road Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said there are still conspiracies afoot to assassinate Sheikh Hasina fearing their (evil forces) defeat in the upcoming elections. He made the remarks while addressing a discussion marking National Mourning Day at the Secretariat premises arranged by Bangladesh
Hasina is most popular leader in post-’75 Bangladesh : Quader
Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said Awami League (AL) President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is the most popular leader in Bangladesh after 1975. "Although you are arranging rallies, people are not responding. Sheikh Hasina's popularity is the main reason. Who is
PM blames BNP-Jamaat govt for August 21 carnage
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that the August 21 grenade attack was carried out with direct patronisation of then BNP-Jammat government to kill her and wipe out the top leadership of her Awami League party 18 years ago. "Without having any government patronisation, this kind of heinous attack could
Rohingyas must go home in Myanmar: PM tells UN rights chief
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday reiterated her call to Myanmar to take back home the country's over one million Rohingya nationals from their temporary shelter in Bangladesh."The Rohingyas are the nationals of Myanmar and they have to be taken back," the prime minister told the UN High Commissioner for
PM censures countries harbouring Bangabandhu’s killers
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said that the countries which teach lessons, raise questions about human rights and impose sanctions have given shelter to the killers of Bangabandhu and most of his family members. “They (countries) give us lessons (on human rights), but they are protecting the killers of my father
Bangladesh saw massive HR violation during post ’75 military regimes: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh had witnessed gross violation of human rights during the long military regimes after 1975 carnage. "We're even barred from seeking justice," she said while UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet paid a courtesy call on her at her official Ganabhaban residence here.