Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today handed over the prestigious UNESCO International Literacy Prize to the recipients for this year, marking the International Literacy Day.
Bangladesh will invite fresh block bidding for oil and gas exploration in the bay of the Bengal soon. “We have around seven blocks. After we modernize the PSC, we will go for bidding," State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid Bipu told reporters recently.
The Awami League government’s initiative “Ghore Phera Kormosuchi” (let’s go back to home) has made progress in turning around the families of the urban troubled slums. Initiated in 1998, the financial scheme has so far helped 987 families to return home and became self employed.
The World Health Organization is going to award Saima Wazed Hossain, daughter of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in recognition of her contribution in public health development in South-East Asian region.
Bangladesh has shown remarkable success in reducing child blindness by 50 percent, to 24,000 in 2014 from 48,000 in 2000.
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