Nobel Peace Prize-winning Professor of Bangladesh Muhammad Yunus has received the Hillary Rodham Clinton Award. Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handed over the award to him at a programme organised at Gaston Hall of Georgetown University of the United States on Thursday.
Researchers at the University of Dhaka (DU) have developed a device that attracts Aedes mosquitoes using sound, captures their images and uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and count them. The researchers believe the technology, named ‘Mast-CloudNet’, could make it easier to monitor the spread of Aedes mosquitoes, which transmit dengue.
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.