<div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the youth to be euipped with knowledge, technology, and science to successfully face the challenges of the future and build a better Bangladesh in the spirit of the 1971 liberation war.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“This era is the era of technology, science, and knowledge. Without achieving knowledge it would not be possible for a person to prepare for the future and the country,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister said this while distributing prizes among the winners of a nationwide video competition titled ‘Bangabandhu in my eyes’ held at her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She also asked the youth to take lessons from the history to be better prepared for the future.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hasina expressed the hope that the new generation will&nbsp; take the the country towards prosperity.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“We have to take lessons from the history, we have to find our own path for the coming future to advance along with the other countries. You have to prepare yourselves that way,” she said.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She put highest emphasis on education for building a nation and taking it towards prosperity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“And without education it is not possible at all. Without education it is not possible to eradicate poverty. Education is the biggest achievement for a person,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The PM urged the young people to get ready to lead the country.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“You have to get ready, the spirit of the liberation war must be upheld. You have to build Bangladesh free from hunger, poverty and with prosperity,” she said.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this connection, she firmly said that Bangladesh will not yield to anyone.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“We will go with our own dignity. We all have to keep that in our mind always,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pointing to the distortion of Bangladesh's history after the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Hasina said that the real history has emerged now following corrective measures.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister called upon all to remain alert so none can push the country backwards and make it again the country of beggers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"None can pull us back. We always have to be alert. We have to march the country ahead," she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier, the prime minister distributed certificates, crests and award money among the winners. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>