Recognition After 41 Years

President Zillur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina confer awards--'Bangladesh Liberation War Honour' and 'Friends of Liberation War Honour'--on foreign friends at a ceremony at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre yesterday. 1. Simon Dring of UK; 2. Chief Minister of Tripura, India Manik Sarker; 3. Lt Gen (retd) Jack Frederick Ralph Jacob of India [holding his hand up and saying Joy Bangla] 4. Dr Kirsten Westergaard of Denmark; 5. Barrister Nora Shariff of Ireland; 6. Tsuyoshi Nara of Japan; 7. Lear Levin of USA and 8. Rajmata Bibhu Kumari Devi of Tripura, India.Photo: STAR