Dignitaries along with award winners pose for a photo during the award ceremony of a contest on migration reporting at BRAC Centre in Dhaka on Tuesday. — New Age photoNew Age staff correspondent Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan secured first prize for his report ‘Sending workers abroad: Bangladesh counts only number, not quality’ in a reporting competition on labour migration issue in the category of national print newspapers. European Union, International Organisation for Migration and BRAC migration programme jointly awarded a total of 12 journalists from print, electronic and online media and a blogger for writing articles on migration issues in Bangladesh. The competition was organised through IOM’s flagship project #Prottasha funded by the European Union in Bangladesh. Imrul Kayes of Priyo.com, Abdullah al Hossain of bdnews24.com and Saddif Sohrab of banglatribune.com got the award in online media category.

Source: bd News24 May 21, 2019 19:07 UTC