Deputy Minister for Water Resources A K M Enamul Haque Shameem said that the government is working to ensure safe drinking water and sanitation facilities for the garment workers.“It is hard to reach to the garment workers safe drinking water and proper sanitation facilities as the labourers have to live in very densely populated areas. We hope that we can ensure these within 2030 for all,” Shameem said this on Monday while addressing a programme at Dhaka University (DU).A research...
City Desk : Ferry services on the Daulatdia-Paturia route of Manikganj and Rajbari districts remained suspended for five hours due to poor visibility caused by dense fog on Sunday.Two ferries – Barkat and Kaberi – remained stranded in the middle of the Padma River due to thick fog, reports media. The ferry service was suspended at 3:40am. The service was restored at 8:40am after the fog cleared, according to the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) Aricha office.Hundreds of vehicles...
BSS :State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Murad Hasan on Thursday said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is the real hero of the nation as he has brought the independence of the country.“Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman broke the shackles of subjugation and gave the Bengali nation an independent sovereign state….So, he is the real hero of the nation”, said Murad speaking as the chief guest at an award-giving ceremony.Mirror Magazine organised the...
The Graduation Dinner of the Defence Services Command and Staff College (DSCSC) course ‘DSCSC 2016-2017’ was held on Sunday at DSCSC officers mess, Mirpur Cantonment, Dhaka. Abul Maal A Muhith, MP, The Minister, Ministry of Finance, graced the occasion as the chief guest. Among others, Chief of Army Staff General Abu Belal Mohammad Shafiul Huq, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Mohammad Nizamuddin Ahmed, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Abu Esrar, PSO of the Armed Forces Division, PSOs...
BSS, Dhaka :The government will set up a digital archive on Bangabandhu to inform the new generation about different aspects of the life and ideology of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,The information was revealed recently in a meeting of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Birth Centenary Celebration National Implementation Committee here.The Chief Coordinator of the Birth Centenary Celebration National Implementation Committee Dr Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury presided over the meeting at International Mother Language...
The government is broadening its social security projects gradually as about 75 lakh disadvantaged people have been brought under the safety net programme aiming to alleviate poverty in the country.“The number of the beneficiaries is increasing gradually…Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will make Bangladesh a poverty- and hunger-free country,” an official of Department of Social Services (DSS) told BSS. He said the government allocated Taka 54,206 crore for allowances to old-aged people, widows, women repressed by husbands and insolvent physically challenged...
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon stressed the need for a standard and time-befitting education system to create a well-educated nation for ensuring overall development of the country.“The government is planning to develop a productive, science oriented and time-befitting education system to educate the nation in a proper way for ensuring the overall development,” he said this on Wednesday while inaugurating a 10-storey academic building of Wills Little Flower School in the capital city, as the chief guest.Mentioning...
Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan has said the young generation should be made known the real history of the War of Liberation to make them patriotic citizens for building an economically developed country.After assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, along with his family members, on August 15, 1975, the anti-liberation forces distorted real history of the War of Liberation to misguide the people, he said recently at the inaugural function of a map sculpture titled “Bangladesh...
State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak yesterday said the government has attached priority to digitize administration to make public services smooth and transparent aiming to supplement the efforts for building “Digital Bangladesh” by 2021.The government under the dynamic leadership Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has brought a significant change in the public services system, he told a seminar on “National Backbone Network of Bangladesh Government” in the auditorium of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) in the city. Secretary of ICT...