Posts and Telecommunications Minister Aminul Haque yesterday handed over scholarship documents to the students at a function in Dhaka.

Under the scholarship programme, introduced by AKTEL mobile phone's owning company Telecom Malaysia International, Bangladesh (TMIB) in 1998, every year three students get opportunity to study in Multimedia University (MMU) of Malaysia in engineering electronics, business administration and information technology.

Speaking at the function, the minister thanked sponsors for the scholarship and urged them to increase the number of scholarships from next year.

Syed Marghub Murshed, chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, Dr Hafiz GA Siddiqi, vice chancellor of North South University, AM Zahiruddin Khan, chairman of TMIB, Nasir Bin Baharom, managing director of TMIB, and Salahuddin Kasem Khan, director of TMIB, also spoke at the function.