Desk Report
The long-awaited tenth convocation of Rajshahi University is set to be held on Saturday as the university authorities have already made all kind of preparations to hold the event in a befitting manner.
The president Md Abdul Hamid, also the chancellor of the university, will preside over the convocation with education minister Nurul Islam Nahid as special guest.
Eminent historian and professor emeritus Alamgir Muhammad Serajuddin will address the convocation as convocation speaker.
In the convocation, eminent short story writers, and novelists Professor Hassan Azizul Haq and Selina Hossain will be conferred the Doctors of Letters degree in recognition of their contributions to Bangla literature. Professor Hasan Azizul Haq and Selina Hossain graduated from the Philosophy and Bangla departments of the university in 1960 and in 1968 respectively.
Besides, chancellor Abdul Hamid will also lay the foundation stone of two ten-storey halls – one for male students and another for female students of the university.