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Country's two noted singers Runa Laila and Sabina Yasmin have been nominated for the Sheltech Award -2008. The awards will be handed over to the recipients formally at the end of March 2009. Each will receive Tk 1 lakh cash and a crest, said a press release.

Sheltech has been giving award since 1998 to honour the eminent citizens.

Late poet Shamsur Rahman, Tagore artiste Kalim Sharafi, Nazrul artiste Feroza Begum, artist Quayyum Chowdhury, litterateur Rabeya Khatun, fiction writer Zafar Iqbal, Shykh Seraj, puppeteer Mustafa Monwar, playwright Mamtazuddin Ahmed, filmmaker Soovas Dutta, educationist Abdullah Abu Sayeed, actor Abul Hayat, architect Moinul Hossain and litterateur Humayun Ahmed received the awards in previous years.