Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
Don’t worry about loan interest, PM tells businesspeople
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the businesspeople, who took loans for operating their business entities, do not to be worried about their loan interest.
Educational institutions to remain closed till Sept if corona situation doesn’t improve: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said educational institutions in the country will remain closed till September next if there is no improvement in the prevailing situation triggered by COVID-19.
COVID-19: Hasina's efforts lauded in Forbes article
Forbes, an American business magazine, featured eight women global leaders, including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who "deserve to be recognised" for their efforts in dealing with COVID-19 challenges to reshape the future.
Bangladesh, a country of some 161 million people, led by Sheikh Hasina, is no stranger to crises, the magazine wrote.
She was quick off her feet standing up to this one, with a response the World Economic Forum called “admirable”.
Sheikh Hasina, the country’s longest-serving Prime Minister, started evacuating Bangladeshi citizens from China in early February.
After the first case was diagnosed in early March, she closed educational institutions and nudged all non-essential businesses to go online.
Then she harnessed tech, installing screening devices across international airports which screened some 650,000 people (of which 37,000 were immediately quarantined), something the UK still is not doing, the article reads.
Both Singapore under President Halima Yacob and Hong Kong, China, under Chief Executive Carrie Lam, have been globally admired for their early and highly effective lead in getting ahead of the crisis, it said.
Now Singapore is scrambling with a second-wave whiplash, while Lam has done better at nipping resurgence in the bud.
Different cultures and issues in every country mean responses will never be a one-size fits all.
Women now govern 18 countries and 545 million people globally.
That is 7 percent of the world’s population (Exactly the same percentage, by the way, of women CEOs on the Fortune 500.)
From Bangladesh and Ethiopia, to Georgia and Singapore, women are emerging into political leadership across the globe. And this revelatory crisis is showing their talents.
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO of 20-first, a global gender-balance consultancy, wrote the article.
Factories must be reopened gradually to save economy: Salman
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s private sector adviser Salman F Rahman on Saturday said the country’s export-oriented factories must be reopened slowly by maintaining necessary health protocol to save the economy.
President, PM mourn death of Mujibnagar Govt’s finance secretary Asaduzzaman
President Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Parliament Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury and a number of ministers expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of Mujibnagar Government’s finance secretary Khandaker Asaduzzaman.
PM's videoconference with Rajshahi division officials Monday
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a videoconference with public representatives and officials of the districts of Rajshahi division over the COVID-19 issue on Monday.
PM mourns death of Mujibnagar Govt’s finance secetary Asaduzzaman
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of former MP elected from Tangail Gopalpur-Bhuapur and finance secretary of Mujibnagar Government Khandaker Asaduzzaman.
In a condolence message, she said the nation will remember this valiant Freedom Fighter for his role in the great Liberation War and different democratic movements.
"The nation lost a sacrificing Awami League leader at his death," she said.
She prayed for the eternal salvation of the departed soul and expressed sympathy to the bereaved family.
Asaduzzamn breathed his last at 4:10pm at his home.
PM mourns death of BTV’s first female cameraperson Rozina Akter
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of first female cameraperson of the country and Bangladesh Television Rozina Akter.
PM for collective approach of responsibility, partnership to fight Covid-19
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday underscored the need for taking an approach of collective responsibility and partnership from every society to fight the Covid-19 and its impacts on economies across the world.
PM to join Covid-19 virtual conference Thursday
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will join a virtual conference on ‘Enhancing regional cooperation in South Asia to combat Covid-19 related impact on its Economics’ on Thursday evening.