Bangladesh is looking forward to furthering close bilateral ties with South Korea especially in trade and investment to expedite realizing Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman dream of achieving Sonar Bangla or the Golden Bengal.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam said this at a reception marking the National Foundation Day Reception of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) as the chief guest on Sunday evening.
South Korean Ambassador to Bangladesh Park Young-Sik hosted the reception at a city hotel.
Railways Minister M Nurul Islam Sujan today said modern luggage van facilities have been linked with railway communications aiming to provide diversified services to the common people.
“Modern luggage van has been equipped with intercity train as fresh vegetables, seasonal fruits, flowers, perishable items like fish, meat, milk and medicine could be transported through the railways”, he said.
The minister told this to the journalists before inaugurating the installations of modern luggage vans with Sylhet bound intercity train Joyantika Express at Kamlapur Railway Station here.
LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Md Tazul Islam called upon the global leaders to take bold and strong measures for funding and technology transfer for climate change adaption.
"It is the duty of the international community to extend cooperation to the developing nations in fighting against climate change. Partnership and solidarity should be strengthened worldwide to ensure a prosperous and sustainable future leaving no one behind," he said.
He made the call at high-level 2023 P4G Columbia Summit in the Colombian capital of Bogota on Saturday, said a press release here today.
The Board of Executive Directors of World Bank
(WB) has approved US$300 million to help Bangladesh recover from learning
losses incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The support will also introduce complementary online learning blended with
in-class education to build system resilience, improve learning outcomes and
teaching quality and reduce the dropout rate in secondary education.
"Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in education over the years and was
among the first few developing countries to achieve gender parity in lower
secondary school. But, the prolonged school closure during the COVID-19
pandemic has had a profoundly negative impact on learning and forced many
poor girls to leave school," said Abdoulaye Seck, WB country director for
Bangladesh and Bhutan.