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Tripura varsity confers honorary doctorate on
Hasina
Thursday January 12, 2012 01:02:31 PM,
IANS
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Tripura varsity to confer doctorate on Sheikh Hasina
Tripura
University will confer an honorary doctorate on Bangladesh Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina during her maiden visit to this
northeastern Indian state Jan 12, a top official said here
Wednesday.
"Sheikh Hasina and Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari have
already given their consent
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Agartala: Indian Vice
President Hamid Ansari Thursday conferred an honorary doctorate of
Tripura University on Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
"I am extremely grateful to the university and the people of
Tripura for giving me such a prestigious honour," said Hasina, who
arrived in Tripura Wednesday on a two-day maiden visit.
As Ansari conferred the honorary Doctor of Literature (honoris
causa) on Hasina at the university's ninth convocation, the packed
hall greeted the Bangladeshi prime minister with a standing
ovation and prolonged applause.
Hasina said: "The honour will inspire me to work more for the
people of the (South Asian) region."
Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipumoni said: "By honouring the
Bangladesh prime minister, the Tripura University has brought the
people of the two countries closer."
"This is for the first time that the Tripura University has
conferred the honorary D.Litt on any person after the university
was set up in 1987," Vice Chancellor Arunoday Saha told IANS.
Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry
president A.K. Azad, who accompanied the visiting prime minister,
said: "This honorary D.Litt has not only honoured Hasina, it
honoured the entire 16 crore people of Bangladesh."
This is the second time an Indian university has conferred an
honorary D.Litt on Hasina. The 64-year-old Bangladesh leader was
conferred the honour by Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal
Jan 28, 1999.
She was also conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws for
distinguished creative contribution to society by the Australian
National University. The Dhaka University honoured her in similar
fashion.
She was awarded UNESCO's Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize in 1998 for
her contribution to bring peace by ending the 25 years of conflict
in Chittagong Hill Tracts with political courage and
statesmanship.
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