(BSS) – Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today directed all concerned to play their due roles in ensuring pollution-free rivers and a clean, liveable environment for future generations. “Alongside ourselves, we must strive to leave pollution-free rivers and a liveable environment for the next generation. We cannot simply wait for government directives; we must also act out of our own sense of responsibility,” he said. The Prime Minister was speaking at a review meeting at Bangladesh Secretariat this morning on pollution control, waste removal, conservation and management of rivers around Dhaka, ensuring navigability and developing the circular waterways. Prime Minister’s Assistant…
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Prime Minister Tarique Rahman will advance Bangladesh’s national interests, economic potential and development opportunities globally under the government’s “Bangladesh First” foreign policy during the upcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaed Islam said today. “This year’s session is an extremely important one for Bangladesh. It marks a new journey, a new possibility and a new aspiration,” she said. She was addressing a discussion titled “Upcoming UNGA and Branding of Bangladesh” as the chief guest at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the capital. The Centre for Non-Resident Bangladeshi (Centre for NRB), a non-profit research…
Adviser to the Prime Minister for Labour and Employment and Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Mahdi Amin today stressed ensuring sustainable security, dignity and fair opportunities for working people while enhancing their skills to strengthen the national economy. He said this while addressing at the conference and general meeting of the Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS) at the Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh in the city’s Kakrail area. The meeting was held under the theme, “Commitment to move forward to ensure dignity, rights and fair share”. “Workers do not merely provide labour, they keep the wheels of the country’s economy moving,” Mahdi said, stressing that fair wages…
Along some of Dhaka’s busiest roads, amid the noise of traffic and the rush of everyday life, a quiet ritual unfolds each day, with familiar faces gathering by the roadside at particular times to await a fleeting glimpse of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. Come rain or shine, even deep into the night, they step away from their work and take their familiar places, standing patiently by the road for the passing car of the Prime Minister, hoping to catch his eye for just a few seconds. They do not expect the car to stop. There is no meeting, no conversation…
Prime Minister and BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman today enjoyed a cultural programme organised by the Jatiotabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha (JASAS) marking BNP’s 48th founding anniversary. He watched the programme sitting in the audience at the Krishibid Institution Bangladesh (KIB) auditorium in Farmgate here this evening. Earlier, the premier addressed a discussion organised by the BNP to mark its 48th founding anniversary as the chief guest. BNP Acting Secretary General and Prime Minister’s Political Adviser Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi chaired the discussion held at the KIB auditorium under the slogan “Korbo Kaj, Gorbo Desh, Sobar Age Bangladesh” (We will work, we…
(BSS)- Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today said some political parties and individuals are trying to create anarchy by spreading confusion on some recent crisis. “Of course, there are some problems in the country. But by taking advantage of these problems, some political parties and individuals are trying to create confusion in different ways aimed at pushing the country to anarchy,” he said. The Prime Minister was addressing a discussion on 48th founding anniversary of BNP at the Bangladesh Krishibid Institution auditorium here this afternoon. The Prime Minister said, “We are trying to resolve the problems those we have inherited either…
The government is maintaining regular communication with the Saudi authorities to ensure the smooth registration and management of Hajj, Religious Affairs Minister Kazi Shah Mofazzal Hossain Kaykobad said on Saturday. He made the remarks at a programme where awards were presented to the best Hajj guides. The minister said the government is working to further strengthen bilateral relations with Saudi Arabia while addressing various problems faced by Bangladeshi pilgrims. Referring to an incident last year, the minister said two pilgrims could not travel to Saudi Arabia on time due to mismanagement by an agency. They were later sent for Hajj…
Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic will be buried in Belgrade on Monday with thousands expected to honour a man dubbed the “Butcher of Bosnia” by the international press. Mladic’s last years were spent serving a life sentence in The Hague for war crimes committed in Bosnia. The tribunal in The Hague said at the time they were “amongst the most heinous known to humankind”. They included one of the worst European atrocities since World War II — the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim boys and men in Srebrenica in 1995 — a genocide that the court decided was…
Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Chief Whip Nurul Islam Moni has said former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia chose Bangladesh as her only home and did not leave the country with her two sons during the previous regime. The chief whip made the remarks as chief guest at a programme organised to mark the publication of the book ‘Sudhu Madhabir Jonno’, written by Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Asaduzzaman. The programme was held at the Jatiya Nattyashala auditorium of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy this afternoon. Appreciating the book, Moni said its author had rightly highlighted Begum Zia’s decision to remain in…
BNP Acting Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi today said the ongoing gas and power crisis is not an internal failure of the government but the crisis is an outcome of the global war between the USA and Iran. Rizvi, also the Prime Minister’s political adviser, said this as chief guest at the coronation programme of the executive committee of Bangladesh Nrityashilpi Sangstha at Shilpakala Academy here this evening. Addressing the long march announced by the opposition, Rizvi said they have the freedom to hold programmes and criticize the government constructively. He, however, cautioned that if ugly culture of the…
