Dhaka, July 17 -- Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan has singled out unemployment as the government's biggest challenge, pointing to it as one of the primary causes behind last year's July Uprising.

"Eliminating unemployment is our biggest challenge. The Ministry of Youth and Sports is actively working towards this goal," said Asif, while speaking as the chief guest at a workshop titled 'Youth Entrepreneurship: Investment and Policy', held on Thursday at the conference room of the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) in the capital's Agargaon.

Highlighting initiatives taken for young entrepreneurs through the Department of Youth Development, the adviser said, "We are providing entrepreneurial loans to youn...