Bangladeshi Journalist Honoured at Qatar Mango Festival for Export Coverage
Md. Emdadul Huq Tuhin, a senior correspondent of online news portal Sarabangla.net and a member of the Bangladesh ICT Journalists Forum (BIJF), has been honoured by the Bangladesh Embassy in Qatar for his contribution to promoting Bangladeshi mango exports. He received the award in recognition of his prompt and effective coverage of the weeklong mango festival held in Qatar.
The closing ceremony of the festival was held on Tuesday, July 1, at Souq Waqif, a prominent commercial hub in the Qatari capital, Doha. Bangladesh’s Ambassador to Qatar, Md. Nazrul Islam, presented the crest and certificate of honour to journalist Emdadul Haque Tuhin. The programme was conducted by Abdullah Al Razi, First Secretary at the Bangladesh Embassy in Qatar.
In addition to Tuhin, another Bangladeshi journalist, a mango exporter from Bangladesh, Bangladeshi-run business participants in Qatar, as well as the Souq Waqif Authority and the Private Engineering Office of Qatar, were also honoured by the Embassy.
Tuhin is a permanent member of the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) and is affiliated with both the BIJF and the Bangladesh Agricultural Journalists Forum (BAJF). Alongside Saleh Mohammad Rashid Alok, publisher and editor of PoliticsNews24.com, Tuhin participated in the festival as a representative of the agricultural journalism community. Both journalists were awarded by the Bangladesh Embassy in Qatar.
Throughout his career, Emdadul Huq Tuhin has received multiple accolades, including the DRU Best Reporting Award 2023, one of the highest recognitions from the Dhaka Reporters Unity. Earlier, in 2015, he was awarded the PIB-a2i Media Award for his reporting on Digital Bangladesh. This award was jointly conferred by the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) and the Access to Information (a2i) project under the Prime Minister’s Office.
Notably, this was the first time a mango festival of such scale was held in Qatar. Jointly organised by the governments of Bangladesh and Qatar, the weeklong festival began on June 25 and was initially scheduled to continue until July 1. However, due to a shortage of mangoes, it concluded a day early on June 30. Despite that, the closing ceremony took place on its originally scheduled date. Approximately 73 tonnes of Bangladeshi mangoes were sold during the event.
