Bangladesh has shown remarkable success in reducing child blindness by 50 percent, to 24,000 in 2014 from 48,000 in 2000.
The 54th council meeting and annual forum of Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO) started yesterday in Dhaka for the first time.
Health ministers from eleven countries of South-East Asia Region of WHO will attend a four-day meeting in Dhaka that starts tomorrow. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the program.
The cabinet today approved a proposal for converting city's Tejgaon industrial zone and its all main roads into an industry cum commercial and residential area.
UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova was today all praise for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her outstanding contribution to promoting girls and women education and raising literacy rate in Bangladesh.
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