Sheikh Hasina
The national flag flies outside Bangladesh Parliament Building where the Prime Minister-elect Sheikh Hasina Wajed and nearly 200 other Awami League nominees take the oath as Members of Parliament's in a brief ceremony in Dhaka on January 3, 2009. A record 70.3 million people cast ballots in Bangladesh's general elections this week, an official said, accounting for 87 percent of a possible 81 million voters. The winning Awami League party, lead by Sheikh Hasina Wajed, took almost half of the popular vote in Monday's election, gaining 48 percent of all votes, election commission spokesman S.M. Asaduzzaman said.
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Our prime minister (Sheikh Hasina) wants this place to be taken over by the government and convert it to such a system that it can rehabilitate those who have died here or are affected
I asked if there was anyone inside the debris and then someone, a female, replied.
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Bangladesh PM urged to ensure workers` safety, rights
empowers workers and prevents more accidents from happening," the lawmakers wrote in a letter to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday. Signatories to the letter include Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus Joe Crowley, founder and co-chair of from Zee News Read more »
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Bangladesh and Texas: A Study in Contrasts
to prevent such future disasters. So has Texas. Eight days after the Bangladesh explosion, Bangladesh's prime minister Sheikh Hasina told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that there are problems that beset the garment industry in that country (an acknowledgement from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Aasu, BJP, AAP greet Manmohan Singh with protests
India-Bangladesh border. The BJP leaders also criticized the land-swap deal signed by Singh and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2011. "The people of Assam expected that the Prime Minister would be able to address the multiple problems faced by the from Times of India Read more »
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Bangladesh disaster site to become rehab centre
1,127 people and convert it into a rehabilitation centre for the victims, a minister said Tuesday. "Our prime minister (Sheikh Hasina) wants this place to be taken over by the government and convert it to such a system that it can rehabilitate those who have from Channel News Asia Read more »
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Bangladesh PM's dialogue offer 'good starting point': UN
time in five months as part of a UN initiative to support democracy there. He met Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, main opposition BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, their advisors and leaders of their parties separately and also exchanged from IBN Live Read more »
