Humayun Mela 2018
Sheikh Arif Bulbon :Private satellite channel, Channel i organized Humayun Mela on the channel’s premises in the capital’s Tejgaon area on November 13 to mark the 71st birthday of noted author, playwright and filmmaker...
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Late afternoon is prime time for calorie-burning
Weekend Plus Desk :Most people believe we tend to burn maximum calories during the early hours of the day or when we sleep at night. But researchers reporting in Current Biology have an interesting...
River cruise from Kolkata to Dhaka via Sunderbans
Weekend Plus Desk :If you wanted to know what it would be like to hop on a river cruise and travel the length of the Brahmaputra to land in Bangladesh, while traversing through the...
Skin, hair masks to protect against air pollution effectively
Weekend Plus Desk :The quality of air in the capital and NCR is a worrying cause yet again. With air pollution on the rise, it has become more important than ever for us take...
WORLD DIABETES DAY: Look at the five warning signs of the silent killer
Weekend Plus Desk :According to the International Diabetes Federation, 425 million people suffer from diabetes in the world. A chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when...
Struggling to get out of the bed in morning? You might have Dysania
Weekend Plus Desk :While some people may be attuned to waking up at the crack of dawn, many of us find it hard to rise early and wriggle out of our cosy duvets. Although...
Vision of an incisive mind: An endeavour to enlighten the depth
Jocelyn Veronica Biswas :“So open your eyes and see, the way our horizons meet… and all of the stars will guide us home,” just like Ed Sheeran’s song takes our emotions to places we...
Educationist, writer Dr Qudrat-i-Khuda
Literature Desk :Muhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda (1900 -3 November, 1977) was a Bangladeshi organic chemist, educationist and writer. He founded the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. From 1969 till 1972, he served as the...
Poems: For humanity
-Mohammad Mamun Mia We human beingHave the same fellow feelingBlood connection is not everything. Humanity is a different thingWhere there will be no differentiation between kith and kinNo racial discrimination will be seen. Everybody...
Poems: My goal and destiny
-Tahia TabassumI have to go to a long way,To go through the sky you say.To feel this life and let you feelAnd to have the victory as a seal. I have to go through...
Poet, philosopher Muhammad Iqbal
Sheila D McDonough :Allama Iqbal, was born on November 9, 1877, Sialkot, Punjab, India [now in Pakistan] and died on April 21, 1938, Lahore, Punjab), A great poet and philosopher, he came of a...
Philosopher Dewan Mohammad Azraf
Pradip Kumar Roy :Dewan Mohammad Azraf (1908-1999) Educationist, Philosopher and National Professor, was born in his maternal grandfather’s house on 1 January 1908 in the village of Teghoria (Laxmansri) in Sunamganj district. He was...