City Desk : The World Habitat Day-2024 will be observed today in the country as elsewhere in the world in a bid to raise awareness among people for safe and habitable abode for all.The United Nations designated the first Monday of October every year as the World Habitat Day to reflect on the state of towns and cities, reports BSS.The Day is also intended to remind the world that all have the power and the responsibility to shape the future...
Day: October 7, 2024
City Desk : Joyeeta Tahseen Khan, a B.Pharm graduate of the Department of Pharmacy at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), has...
City Desk : The 11th edition of the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2024, organised by the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) with support from the BASIS Students’ Forum, concluded with an award giving ceremony.The 36-hour hackathon began on October 4. The award giving ceremony was held on Saturday at the auditorium of the American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), reports UNB.Helen LaFave, Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy, congratulated the participants and said, “I offer my heartfelt congratulations for...
City Desk : Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Adviser for Environment, Forest, Climate Change, on Sunday stressed the need for enhancing regional cooperation in addressing the adverse impacts of climate change.She highlighted the importance of providing information and data on rainfall, structural conditions and water in advance to downstream countries from upstream countries, reports BSS.Both upstream and downstream countries must work together to this end, she added.The Environment Advier made these remarks while addressing a convention titled “Annual Community of Practice (COP)...