DU be pathfinder in rearing human resources: PM hopes.

Describing Dhaka University as the lighthouse of all the achievements, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hoped Thursday the varsity would show others the path in turning people into human resources to compete with the rest of the world in the wake of the fourth industrial revolution. 'It is my desire that Dhaka University will start making human resources to compete with the world and the rest of the universities across the country will follow its path and thus we will advance our country towards prosperity,' she said. The premier was addressing as the chief guest virtually from her official residence the inaugural session of a historic international e-conference titled 'Celebrating the 100 Years of the University of Dhaka: Reflections from the Alumni-International and National'. Dhaka University organized the conference from Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban on its campus in the evening, reports BSS. Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh required skilled manpower to survive by competing with others across the globe in the wake of the fourth industrial revolution. Dhaka University, she said, has to play the most significant role to this end as it did in the past in all the country's democratic and progressive movements starting from the Language Movement, Education Movement, 1969 Upsurge and Liberation War to the movement against the 1/11 caretaker government. The premier requested all concerned particularly the university teachers and students to conduct more research as nothing possible to achieve without research...