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.
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.
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