Dhaka’s air quality has been ranked as third most polluted in the world according to an air quality data compiled by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for megacities with a population of 14 million or more. Meanwhile, the Indian capital Delhi has been found to be the world’s most polluted city and Mumbai was ranked fourth, reports Hindustan Times. Greater Cairo in Egypt is the second most polluted city and Beijing ranked ...details

International Migration Law Specialist and Advocate of Bangladesh Supreme Court Sheikh Salahuddin Ahmed is going to launch free legal assistance for Bangladeshi immigrants living abroad in the New Year.On behalf of Worldwide Migration Consultants Limited, he is going to take this initiative to legalize those who are unable to fight legally,socially helpless as well as those who are immigrants abroad.To get legal help and free legal advice and assistance by ...details

Neurologists at NYU School of Medicine have devised an easy test that could enable earlier diagnosis of a group of degenerative brain diseases. A simple bedside test that matches a change in heart rate with a drop in blood pressure after a patient stands may help doctors diagnose certain degenerative brain diseases called synucleinopathies, which include Parkinson’s disease, Lewy Body dementia, and multiple system atrophy. Arising from the abnormal buildup of a ...details

Doctors in Bangladesh gear up to separate fused heads of 19-month-old twins in an arduous surgery. Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital or DMCH are hoping for a successful surgery in Bangladesh’s first attempt on twins joined at the head. Last year, the DMCH successfully separated 10-month-old sisters conjoined along their spinal columns. Conjoined sisters Rabeya and Rokeya were born in July last year to Rafiqul Islam and Taslima Khatun, both teachers ...details

There are stories, now and then, of people succeeding in achieving higher education despite significant obstacles. This story isn't one of them. Thirty-three-year-old rickshaw-van puller Shahidul Islam, of Krishnabati village in Jessore's Arippur union, never found a way to continue schooling beyond class five. Despite that failure, and despite struggling with ongoing hardship, such is Shahidul's enthusiasm for education that he does all he can to help others. Locally he's ...details

BNP leaders, activists and supporters are staging a hunger strike in Dhaka demanding release of their chief Khaleda Zia, who is now in jail after convicted in corruption. Hundreds took position near Jatiya Press Club since this morning in the pre-announced programme, as part of a series of peaceful demonstration to press home their demand. BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is currently in prison, after she was handed a five-year imprisonment for misappropriating ...details

The International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) comes with a lot of significance for me. As a person with disability myself, from being denied admission in a regular school to getting rejected for health care, I had to struggle at each step in my life. In spite of this, I’m trying to make my mark as a young disability rights activist. It has not been an easy journey for ...details

To see him as he pedals down the road, Russel Akram, 18, from Kaikhali village in Satkhira's Shyamnagar upazila, looks like any young rickshaw driver. But Russel is a second year Higher School Certificate candidate at Jessore MM College. Like any rickshaw driver, he drives a rickshaw for a livelihood. He also relies on the income for his education, to buy books and pens. “Driving a rickshaw is very difficult but ...details

trapped for cash in a Tokyo hotel, Albert Einstein wrote his take on life on a note and handed it to the bellboy instead of a tip. The physicist's formula for happy living fetched $1.3 million on Tuesday, a Jerusalem auction house said. In 1922, Einstein was en route to Japan when the announcement came he would be awarded the 1921 Nobel prize in physics, Winner's Auctions and Exhibitions said. Upon his ...details

A class 9 student of Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu district who had reached advanced stages of the 'Blue Whale Challenge' was prevented from taking the fatal plunge, thanks to a prompt intervention by his teacher. The boy claimed three of his classmates were also playing the controversial game, Jhunjhunu district collector, Dinesh Kumar Yadav said today. "The boy is terrified and is now being counselled," he said.The incident came into light after the ...details