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Cuet students to participate in Nasa's lunar robotics contest
Staff Correspondent, ctg
A team from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (Cuet) will compete in a five-day-long international lunar robotics contest to be held in the United States of America from May 20 next year.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa),USA will organise the competition titled "Lunabotics Mining Competition-2013” at Florida's Kennedy Space Centre, said Dr Sajal Chandra Banik, associate professor of mechanical engineering department of Cuet.
Total 50 teams from different universities across the world will participate in the competition.
Banik would be leading the five-member team from Cuet, consisting two students from his department and three students from computer science and
Youth fatally run over by train
Staff Correspondent
A youth died after he was run over by a train in Karwan Bazar area of the capital yesterday.
The deceased was Mirza Minhazuddin, 24, a resident of the city's Shaheedbagh and a student of Siddhweshwari University College.
Witnesses said the train struck Mirza when he was walking on the railway crossing near FDC gate in the area around 2:30pm.
He was wearing headphones and apparently could not hear the shouts of people warning him of the approaching train, said witnesses.
Mirza was going to Motalib Plaza in Hatirpool to fix his mobile phone, said police, quoting the vic-
Dhaka to host 19th IAS conference
Diplomatic Correspondent
Dhaka will be hosting the 19th International Conference of Islamic World Academy of Sciences (IAS) in May next year, said a press release of the foreign ministry.
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni conveyed Bangladesh's interest in hosting the event when IAS Director General Dr Moneef Rafe' Zou'bi called on her at the ministry yesterday.
She said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has herself attached importance to hosting this conference.
Moneef Rafe' Zou'bi expressed his satisfaction at Bangladesh's advancement in the fields of higher education, industry, science and technology.
FERB elects new executives
Staff Correspondent Mollah Amzad Hossain, editor of the Energy & Power, has been elected chairman of the Forum for Energy Reporters Bangladesh (FERB) unopposed for 2012-2014.
Arun Karmakar, a special correspondent of the Prothom Alo, was elected executive director at the forum's biannual general meeting election at Jatiya Press Club in the capital on Saturday.
Other elected office bearers are Shahin Chowdhury (The Daily Swadhinmot), Kawser Rahman (The Daily Janakantha), Rafiqul Bashar (The Daily Ittefaq), Nazmul Imam (the daily Shamokal) and Sharmin Rinvi (Bangla Vision).
Two elected members are Farid Hossain (Associated Press) and Akram Hossain Khan, according to a