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PM issues directives to tackle Covid-19
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a meeting on Wednesday discussed the Covid-19 situation in the cpuntry and issued directives to contain the pandemic.
Plant trees to protect environment: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged the people to plant trees in the 'Mujib Borsho' for protecting the environment of the country.
Won’t accept defeat against invisible force fearing death : PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said that she will not accept defeat against an invisible force like coronavirus fearing death.
PM mourns death of ex- SCC mayor Kamran
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of Awami League Central Executive Committee member and former mayor of Sylhet City Corporation Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran.
Protecting people, keeping economy moving is ‘war’: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said keeping away people from getting infected with coronavirus and running wheels of economy simultaneously is a 'war'.
"We have also taken steps so that economic activities could continue running, we have been able to place a budget, this is a kind of war," she said.
The Prime Minister said this while speaking in Parliament taking part in the condolence motion on former minister and ruling Awami League presidium member Mohammad Nasim.
The House also expressed deep shock at the death of State Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah.
Sheikh Hasina said that deaths of two co-fighters of her, Nasim and Abdullah, is very much painful to her as both of them were always beside her in all movements and struggles.
She said that COVID-19 brought the whole world to a standstill and an unnatural situation.
"The world is now under the grip of panic of death. This is very much strange. We’ve never seen this kind of situation in the past," she said.
In this connection, she said that while she was coming to Parliament today many of her well-wishers requested her not to go there.
But she turned down their requests saying that she had faced bullets, bombs and grenades, and she will not sit idle out of the fear of this virus.
"This fear has clutched the whole world, developed, developing or poor countries, powerful countries in terms of arms and money, there is no difference, all become one by this fear and panic of coronavirus, the situation is the same everywhere," she said.
PM mourns death of State Minister Abdullah
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of State Minister for Religious Affairs and 1971 Liberation War veteran Advocate Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah.
“He (Sheikh Abdullah) was a popular leader, he earned love of people at grassroots,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina also recalled with profound respect Abdullah’s outstanding contributions to the great Liberation War and Awami League.
The prime minister also said the country and nation lost a valiant freedom fighter, while the Awami League lost a tested and dedicated soldier of the ideology of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in his death.
“His death is an irreparable loss to the politics of Bangladesh,” she said.
She said Sheikh Abdullah continued to work till his death for the betterment of the country and the people by upholding the ideology of the Father of the Nation.
“His contributions to the struggle for establishing the ideology of the great Liberation War, democracy and non-communal Bangladesh will be remembered forever, Sheikh Hasina said.
She prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed profound sympathy to the bereaved family.
PM donates Tk 10 crore to CRP
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday donated Tk 10 crore to the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) to continue its healthcare and other services to people.
PM mourns death of Islamic scholar Nurul Islam Hashemi
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of eminent Islamic scholar (alem) Alhaj Maulana Kazi Muhammad Nurul Islam Hashemi.
Govt providing Tk2,000cr to commercial banks as subsidy: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday announced that the government will provide Tk 2,000 crore to commercial banks as subsidy so that they could waive this money as interest from around 1.38 crore persons who took loans from banks.
The announcement came while the Prime Minister was publishing the results of SSC and equivalent examinations from her official residence Ganobhaban through videoconferencing.
She also said that the government earlier suspended the interest of bank loans for two months and the amount of that suspended interest was Tk 16,549 crore.
"The rest of the interest money will have to be paid by the loan takers in the next 12 months," she said.
Sheikh Hasina said that all the shops and business entities were closed and the government is now reopening those gradually.
"Many of the business had taken loans from the banks, but they could not run their business properly. We have taken various types of initiatives so that they do not overburdened by the loans," she said.
She said that the government in 19 packages allotted some Tk 103,117 crore which is 3.7 percent of the GDP.
"I do not know any country in the world announced such huge amount (of its GDP) as stimulus package," she said.
The Prime Minister said that the Tk 2,000 crore will be distributed among the loan takers proportionately. "The loan takers will not need to repay these money anymore, we are releasing them from this part (of money)," she added.
She also said that by this decision of the government, some 1.38 crore loan takers will be benefited.
"Their business and trade were shut down for COVID-19, we are giving them scope to start their activities again," she said.
Educational institutions not reopening now: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Haisna on Sunday ruled out the possibility of opening educational institutions right now saying that students are the future of the country and the government does not want to put them at risk.