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Instill reading habit in youth, urges PM
DHAKA, FEB 1: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday that the government was making an all-out effort to establish Bengali as an official language in the United Nations.
“As a nation, the Bengalees take pride in their language, literature and culture. They will continue to march forward with their talent and devotion,” she said while opening the Amar Ekushe Book Fair at the Bangla Academy courtyard.
None will be allowed to save war criminals: PM
DHAKA, FEB 1: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has alleged that the leader of the main opposition party is siding with the war criminals and called upon all to mount pressure on her so that she desist from supporting them.
BNP to revive all withdrawn political cases: MK Anwar
Dhaka, Feb 1 (bdnews24.com)— BNP will revive all the cases withdrawn during the tenure of Awami League-led incumbent government, the party’s standing committee member M K Anwar said on Wednesday.
“The incumbent government has so far withdrawn 7,131 cases against themselves. None of the withdrawn cases were against the opposition parties. Fifteen corruption cases against prime minister Sheikh Hasina were withdrawn. When we come to power, those cases will be revived and tried quickly,” he said at a discussion at the National Press Club.
According to reports, the home ministry withdrew more than 7,000 political cases filed against Awami League leaders and supporters, filed during the past military-backed caretaker government.
Book Fair begins today
DHAKA, JAN 31: The month long Amar Ekushe Boi Mela (book fair) at the Bangla Academy will begin today, Wednesday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the fair, which is being held every year since 1984 to commemorate the martyrs of the 1952 language movement.
On transit, Dhaka set to go by GATT
Dhaka, Jan 30: Bangladesh will not impose any transit fees on India and will rather collect all charges permitted under GATT, a prime minister’s advisor said on Monday.
“There is no such term (as) transit fee in ‘books’, and the government should strictly follow the principles laid down in GATT and transport economics,” Mashiur Rahman, who advises prime minister Sheikh Hasina on economic affairs, told bdnews24.com.
Hasina warns AL MPs
Dhaka, Jan 30 (bdnews24.com)—The prime minister has warned her party’s MPs to ‘mend their ways’ in time.
Also the Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina told a meeting of the party’s parliamentary party on Sunday that she had up-to-date information on all the legislators and she had already gone through 200 of them.
Several sources at the meeting said it was on the basis of these reports that she made her warning.
Hasina also urged Awami League MPs to improve communications with citizens and party workers. A source said she had warned the MPs that those who cannot earn the trust of party colleagues in the next two years would not get a nomination in the next election.
BNP out to foment unrest in Army, says Hasina
Dhaka, Jan 28: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday accused the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of fomenting trouble in the army, while the Awami League relentlessly tries to establish democracy.
Graft galore in 900 MPO-listed institutions
DHAKA, JAN 27: The Prime Minister’s Office has asked the education ministry to find out and penalize those officials and employees found involved in the process for giving salary from the exchequer to the teachers and employees of nearly 900 schools and colleges flouting the rules.
India tip-off foils coup to dislodge Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
India has helped Bangladesh avert what could have been reminiscent of the bloody military takeover in the wake of the assassination of the country’s founding father, Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, more than 36 years ago.
PM for extensive research on extraction of natural resources
JOYPURHAT: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the country’s geologists and mineral scientists to conduct extensive research on extraction and optimum utilization of the scarce natural resources in Bangladesh.
She made the call while inaugurating the Institute of Mining, Mineralogy and Metallurgy here this (Sunday) morning.
No shortcut to state power, says Hasina
Dhaka, Jan 21: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said there is no shortcut or different way, faster than the schedule, to go to state power.
She extended her thanks to Bangladesh Army for foiling a coup attempt to overthrow the elected government.
PM thanks Army for foiling coup attempt
DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday thanked the Bangladesh Army for saving the country from a disaster by thwarting the conspiracy to topple the democratic government.
No chance of dictators coming back: PM Gilani
LAHORE: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said dictators who could not end corruption despite sloganeering about curbing it while holding powers for several years had no chance of returning, Geo News reported.
Pakistan court adjourns PM contempt hearing until February 1
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned until February 1 a contempt hearing against the embattled prime minister over his refusal to re-open graft cases against the president.
Plunderers of orphans’ money, will face trial, says Hasina
MANIKGANJ, Jan 18: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that those who grabbed orphans’ money would not be spared, they must face trial.
“Those who have plundered orphans money must face the trial,” the prime minister said pointing to opposition leader Khaleda Zia who was formally charged with embezzlement of Zia Orphanage Trust fund during her 2001-2006 tenure.
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