World Food Day is being observed in Bangladesh today, Friday (October 16), with calls for innovation in agriculture, stronger food security and wider access to nutritious food for all. This year's global theme is "Innovate Today, Nourish Tomorrow".
Bangladesh is set to sign a new country partnership framework agreement with the World Bank (WB), with a government delegation scheduled to hold talks with the global lender within the next two to three weeks to finalise the terms.
Students of Jagannath University (JnU) slaughtered a cow beside the vice-chancellor’s residence on Friday in protest against a university administration notice banning the slaughter of animals on campus.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has said that two police personnel detained by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the Shashidal border in Brahmanpara upazila of Cumilla are safe and unharmed.
A British-Bangladeshi teacher has been sentenced to six years in prison by a UK court for secretly filming schoolgirls in sexually intrusive ways and creating explicit deepfake images of them using artificial intelligence (AI).
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel will be deployed in Gopalganj, Madaripur and Faridpur, alongside border districts, to ensure security at Durga Puja venues. The BGB members will remain on duty in the three districts from October 16 to 22.