Eight Bangladeshis, including expatriates, will be awarded for their contribution to arts, science and technology, health and medicine, and education and research in the first Non-resident Bangladeshi (NRB) Conference starting Thursday.
According to organizers of the program, Scholars Bangladesh, over a thousand expatriate Bangladeshi scholars and professionals will take part in some 20 seminars in the three-day conference. Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed will be present at the opening and closing ceremonies, with the army chief, government advisers, senior state officials and military officials attending a number of seminars.
Matiur Rahman Chowdhury has more on the story.
