Planning a trip to Hong Kong? These are offbeat experiences
Weekend Plus Desk :Monsoon is upon us and the change in season usually signals the end of the vacation period. But don’t let the rains dampen your plans to go on a holiday because...
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You should apply sunscreen even when you are indoors; why?
Weekend Plus Desk :You might have heard this a million times that applying sunscreen during day time is of utmost importance to save your skin from the harmful effects of UV rays, especially during...
Diabetes increases the risk of heart failure, more in women than men
Weekend Plus Desk :iabetes is one of the leading causes of cardiovascular diseases, blindness, kidney failure and lower-limb amputation. During pregnancy, if the woman has poorly controlled diabetes it further increases the risk of...
5G Revolution
Ashish Kalam :5G, a buzzword most of us keep hearing, but what is it and why does it matter? 5G is the 5th generation of wireless communication technology, succeeding but not necessarily replacing 4G....
World Brain Day 2019 Know all about the chronic condition of migraine
Weekend Plus Desk :While most people experience headache in their day-to-day lives, migraine, a chronic condition, affects one in seven people, and together with other headache disorders, it is considered to be one of...
Poet, lyricist Dwijendralal Roy
Nurul Amin and Khan Md Sayeed :Dwijendralal Roy, (1863-1913) poet, playwright and lyricist, was born on 19 July in 1863 at Krishnanagar in Nadia district, where his father, Kartikeya Chandra Roy, was the Dewan....
Mizanur Rahman-er Troimasik Potrika
Muhammad Saiful Islam :Mizanur Rahman-er Troimasik Potrika was a quarterly Bangla journal established and edited by Mizanur Rahman (b.1931-d.1996). The first issue of the journal was published in March 1983 and its last issue...
Humanist poet Petrarch
Literature Desk :Petrarch (1304-c. 1374) was a poet and scholar whose humanist philosophy set the stage for the Renaissance. He is also considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language.Petrarch was born...
Simple exercises that will help relieve knee pain
Weekend Plus Desk :Knee bone, which is the largest bone in the body, connects the shin-bone and the thigh-bone. It is also considered to be one of the most complicated joints in the human...
Novelist Humayun Ahmed
Literature DeskHumayun Ahmed (13 November 1948-19 July 2012) was an author, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker. Dawn referred to him as the cultural legend of Bangladesh. Humayun Ahmed reached peak of his fame with the...
Journalist, writer Ahmed Humayun
Mohammad Kabirul Hasan :Ahmed Humayun, (1936-1999) was a writer and journalist who was born on 18th May in 1936 at Barahnagar of West Bengal, India. Initial stages of his life were spent at Shahbazpur...
Playwright Anton Chekhov
Wade Bradford :Born in 1860, Anton Chekhov grew up in the Russian town of Taganrog. He spent much of his childhood quietly sitting in his father’s fledgling grocery store. He watched the customers and...