Tripura varsity to confer honorary D.Litt to Hasina

Agartala (Tripura, India), Dec 22 (PTI) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is to be conferred an honorary Doctorate by the Tripura Central University at its ninth convocation to be held in Tripura state capital Agartala on January 12. "Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has consented to participate in the convocation and receive the honorary D.Litt," Vice Chancellor Arunoday Saha of the university in the northeast Indian state of Tripura told PTI. She would arrive here on January 12 from Dhaka and leave for Bangladesh the next day, he said. India's Vice President of India Hamid Ansari has also given his consent to attend the convocation, Saha said. Earlier, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and Governor D Y Patil, also Rector of the university, had met Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka and invited her to visit Tripura. PTI