Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque on Friday said that all saline manufacturing companies in the country have been asked to increase production to meet the current surge in demand caused by the dengue outbreak.
If necessary, the ministry has been instructed to import saline from abroad, Maleque said, seeking to reassure the medical community.
The health minister was inaugurating the foundation stone for construction work of a 1.5 kilometre paved road in Dhakuli area of Manikganj Sadar upazila on Friday afternoon.
Maleque also said that doctors and nurses are providing the best possible service in the hospitals.
NEW DELHI: India today expressed the hope that the upcoming general election in Bangladesh would be held peacefully.
Responding to a media query, India External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi told a weekly media briefing here this afternoon that he does not have any particular comments on "internal development" there (Bangladesh).
"I think, I have spoken it last week...Look, I do not have really any particular comments on internal development there (Bangladesh)," he said.
On the issue of caretaker government, he declined to make comments on it saying those are Bangladesh international affairs. But he mentioned that the "Constitution of the country (Bangladesh) has a position on it".
The government has banned the militant outfit Jamaatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya, according to a gazette notification.
Deputy Secretary, (Political wing) of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mohammad Rashed Hossain Chowdhury, on behalf of the government, issued the notification yesterday.
The gazette notification said that the declared activities of the militant organization called Jamaatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya are against the peace and order of the country.
Bangladeshi UN official Lt Col (retd) AKM Sufiul Anam has formally expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her role in rescuing him from the clutch of Yemen branch of terrorist group Al-Qaeda, after eight months of his abduction. Sufiul along with his family members met the Prime Minister at her official Ganabhaban residence here, according to a press release of the Prime Minister Office (PMO). Principal Staff Officer of the Armed Forces Division Lt. Gen. Waqer-Uz-Zaman, Director General of National Security Intelligence (NSI) Major General TM Jobaer and Military Secretary to the Prime Minister Major General Kabir Ahammad were present.