Syed Manzoorul Islam, Academic and Writer: omestic awareness has to be raised if drug-addicted students are to be brought back to schools and colleges. Offspring should have sound and healthy relationships with their parents. It is a sad reality that corrupt households will have adverse impact on the growth of its children. When the father…
Rubya Tripty Bari Siddi-qui, the eminent folk singer and composer was admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) and has been put into life support at Square Hospitals in Dhaka on Friday night after he felt chest pain. He has been suffering from several physical complications including kidney problems and diabetes, said the Hospital doctor. His…
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BBC: High levels of shame and ignorance are associated with HPV, the sexually-transmitted virus which affects 80% of people, a survey has discovered. The government is rolling out HPV testing as part of routine screenings for cervical cancer.Nearly half of the women surveyed believed their partner must have cheated if they had HPV, but the…
BSS Accomplishing his high school graduation last year, Khairul, a 17-year boy living in Purbo Gobaria village under Kuliarchar upazila in Kishoreganj district, enrolled in a technical collage located in the nearby Laksmipur village to continue his study. And everything was going on the right direction with Khairul attending his classes regularly at the college….
Yahya Bassem, Palestinian journalist based in Turkey/ Daily Sabah, Turkey We live in an age where moral or ethical concerns are ignored, while interest-based approaches are warmly welcomed in world politics. The developments or preferences of world leaders imply that we are employees in a giant company, trying all legal or illegal means to compete…
Happy Akter Mohipal 4-way-street of Feni municipality on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway, had always been the center-point of never-ending traffic jams. It slows down all the road transportations to Noakhali, Begumganj, Companyganj, Lakhipur, Ramgoti, Roypur & many other surrounding areas. Thus, Bangladesh’s first 6 flyover bridge project was initiated on in 2015, with 157 crores taka…
BSS The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has fixed a target of producing 10,395 tonnes of pulses on 8,540 hectares of land in all five districts of Rangpur agriculture region during the current Rabi season. “Sowing of pulse seed continues in full swing in the region to increase production for meeting nutrition of the population…
Tanzim Taqrim Betty Reid Soskin a 96 years old park ranger has no plans to retire. She’s the oldest career national park ranger in the U.S. She works at the Rosie the Riverter and WW2 Home Front National Historical Park.She has done everything from hosting tours to sharing her own history with visitors. Soskin worked…
Eurek Alert Bees can solve seemingly clever counting tasks with very small numbers of nerve cells in their brains, according to researchers at Queen Mary University of London. In order to understand how bees count, the researchers simulated a very simple miniature ‘brain’ on a computer with just four nerve cells – far fewer than…