“This is a very prestigious invitation only annual inter university debate tournament in world platform where 16 universities are taking part this year,” IUB said in a media release on Sunday. Aaqib Farhan Hossain, Nabil Hasan, and Zobayer Ahmed represented IUBDC in the recently held debate tournament. IUBDC secured its position in the HWS RR contest after becoming champions in the United Asian Debate Championship. Besides the IUB team, the other universities that participated in the competition are Harvard University, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, London School of Economics (LSE), University of Melbourne, University of Oxford, Tel Aviv University, Yale University, University College, Dublin, Cornell University and Wilfrid Laurier University. “They plan to immediately resume debating in the national and Asian regional competitions to ensure that IUB can again return to this prestigious event in due time,” it added.

Source: bd News24 May 19, 2019 18:45 UTC