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06 Sep, 2026 14:35 pm

DHAKA, Sept 6, 2026 (BSS) - Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today directed all concerned to play their due roles in ensuring pollution-free rivers and a clean, liveable environment for future generations. "Alongside ourselves, we must strive to leave pollution-free rivers and a liveable environment for the next generation. We cannot simply wait for government directives; we must also act out of our own sense of responsibility," he said. The Prime Minister was speaking at a review meeting at Bangladesh Secretariat this morning on pollution control, waste removal, conservation and management of rivers around Dhaka, ensuring navigability and developing the circular waterways. Prime Minister's Assistant Press Secretary Gazi Shahriar Pamir told reporters that the meeting reviewed measures to control pollution and remove waste from the Buriganga, Turag, Dhaleshwari, Balu and Shitalakkhya rivers and their adjoining canals and drains, ensure navigability and normal water flow, and improve the existing circular waterways around Dhaka. The Prime Minister directed the authorities to take effective steps to swiftly implement the plans adopted so far, stressing proper coordination among the concerned ministries, divisions and agencies to advance the activities. LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Dr. Abdul Moyeen Khan, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Abdul Awal Mintoo, Industries and Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir, Water Resources Minister Shahiduddin Chowdhury Anee, Shipping Minister Shaikh Rabiul Alam, State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Mir Shahe Alam, State Minister for Planing Zonayed Abdur Rahim Saki, State Minister for Shipping Md. Razib Ahsan, State Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Shaikh Faridul Islam, Prime Minister's Special Assistant Dr. Md. Saimum Parvez, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister A B M Abdus Sattar and Commander of Bangladesh Navy's Dhaka Naval Area Rear Admiral Abdullah-Al-Maqsoos, among others, attended the meeting. Secretaries of the concerned ministries and divisions, administrators of Dhaka, Narayanganj and Gazipur city corporations and other senior officials concerned were also present.

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DHAKA, Sept 6, 2026 (BSS) – State Minister for Foreign Affairs Humaiun Kobir today sought continued Japan's efforts toward achieving a durable solution through the safe, voluntary, sustainable, and dignified repatriation of the Rohingyas to Rakhine State in Myanmar. “Bangladesh remains firmly committed to working with the international community to resolve this prolonged humanitarian and regional challenge,” the state minister said. He made the remarks when Yohei Sasakawa, Honorary Chair of Japan’s Nippon Foundation, paid a courtesy call on him at his office here, according to a foreign ministry press release. During the meeting, Humaiun appreciated the Nippon Foundation and Japan for their continued humanitarian assistance to the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals sheltered in Bangladesh. Sasakawa, meanwhile, highlighted the Nippon Foundation’s more than five decades of engagement with Bangladesh, saying the relationship was founded on “profound friendship and mutual trust”. He recalled that the foundation’s cooperation with Bangladesh began in 1971 with emergency relief for displaced people during the country’s Liberation War. Since then, the Japanese foundation has supported Bangladesh through various development, healthcare and educational initiatives, while in recent years it has devoted considerable attention to the Rohingya humanitarian crisis, he said. Sasakawa also briefed the state minister on his organisation’s more than four decades of work towards eliminating leprosy in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO), governments, international organisations, NGOs and organisations representing people affected by the disease. He expressed the Nippon Foundation’s interest in extending assistance to people affected by leprosy in Bangladesh.

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