The Vice Chancellor, Prof. J. R. Choudhury, was invited to participate in the Seminar on Bangladesh on the Threshold of Twenty-first Century, organized by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh . The seminar was held at Asiatic Society Auditorium at Dhaka on 27-28 April, 2001. He presented the paper on Science & Technology outlining the progress in the Science & Technology sector in Bangladesh during the last three decades.