Breastfeeding mothers must follow a balanced diet to lose weight
Weekend Plus Desk :Post-pregnancy, losing those extra pounds might be on your mind, but you need to consider your calorie intake as the baby needs...
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Optic nerve stimulation offers hope for visually impaired
Weekend Plus Desk :Many factors can induce blindness, like genetics, retinal detachment, trauma, stroke in the visual cortex, glaucoma, cataract, inflammation or infection. Scientists are...
The Pavement dwellers
Syed Ashique Mahmood :Thirty -five percent of the urban population in Bangladesh is poor. By urban poor we usually mean the working people with a...
The Pavement dwellers
Contd from page 4 :the rights of the Pavement dwellers. In collaboration with the advocacy and networking organization Coalition for the Urban Poor (CUP) and...
Sukanta Bhattacharya: Poet of the have not’s
Literature Desk :Sukanta Bhattacharya was a poet and playwright. Along with Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam, he was one of the key figures of...
Writer and filmmaker Zahir Raihan
Abu Sayeed Khan :Zahir Raihan (1935-1971) filmmaker and writer, was born on 19 August 1935 in the village Majupur of Feni. Zahir had his early...
Playwright Selim Al Deen
Saymon Zakaria :Selim Al Deen (1949-2008) playwright, teacher, was born on 18 August 1949 in the village Senerkhil under coastal Sonagazi upazila, Feni. His father...
Book Review
The Rebel. Original: Bidrohi by Kazi Nazrul Islam. Translator: Anis Fatema. Publisher: Farid Sayed. Ganer Kobi Praner Kobi Nazrul) 4/1 R.K. Mission Road, Dhaka-1203, Bangladesh....
Plants that can help ward off the insects
Weekend Plus Desk :Mosquitoes don’t have it easy. With so much malice in human hearts for the world’s most dangerous predator that can lead to...
Poet, critic Abdul Mannan Syed
Shamima Akhter :Abdul Mannan Syed, (1943-2010) poet, essayist, researcher and literary critic, was born on 3 August 1943 in the district of the 24-Parganas in...
Journalist, writer Mohammad Waliullah
Ayub Hossain :Mohammad Waliullah (1907-1978), journalist and writer, born in the village Bauria of upazila Sandwip in Chittagong, on 1 March 1907. His father, Ramij...
Eid is for all
-Farid SayedAtmosphere is flooded with sinOf the people poisonous and meanHow the weak without ImanCan lit the light of Deen? The sky speaks of the pleasure...