From the title it might seem like I am going to speak about some sort of tree hugging philosophy, not really. This article is about what the title means literally. We all know food is nourishment for our body. Good food for good health is very important. Recently there is a trend for a lot of type of diet. Most ...

HIV can be flushed out of its hiding places in the body using a cancer drug, researchers show. The cornerstone of treatment, anti-retroviral therapy, kills the virus in the bloodstream but leaves HIV reservoirs untouched. The study, published in PLoS Pathogens, showed the drug was highly potent at reactivating hidden HIV. Experts said the findings were interesting, but it was ...

Recently a huge rare cardiac (heart) tumour of about 4.2 x 3.8 x 2.4 cm attached to the right ventricle and encroaching through right ventricular  outflow tract into the pulmonary valve orifice was successfully removed at Apollo Hospitals Dhaka, says a press release of the hospital. This complicated surgery was performed by the Cardiac Surgeon Dr. Sohail Ahmed. A 18 ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: Seamark Group is one of the largest seafood and agriculture product processing and exporting organisation in the world now. Recently, Standard Chartered Bank organised an agro award giving ceremony where Seamark Group won the best Agricultural Exporter Award. Iqbal Ahmed OBE, Chairman and Chief Executive of Seamark Group, received this award from Agricultural Minister Begum Motia ...

Beijing has been chosen to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, beating the bid of Kazakhstan’s Almaty. Having hosted the 2008 Olympics, the Chinese capital will be the first city to host both a summer and winter Games. Beijing and Almaty were considered outsiders when the 2022 bid race opened two years ago. But after a host of European ...

All-rounder Mahmudullah expressed his disappointment after rain again spoiled the third successive day’s match of the second and final Test of National Polymer two-match Test Series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium (SBNSC) at Mirpur. He was talking to the pressmen on Sunday at the conference room of SBNSC at Mirpur, reports BSS. “It’s really very frustrating that rain has ...

The forward was heavily criticised following his country’s failure to win the tournament but the head coach is adamant his performances were excellent. Messi was slammed by critics and some supporters following the Albiceleste’s final defeat on penalties to host nation Chile, with the Barcelona star having scored just once during the competition. However, the 28-year-old was named in the ...

Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom broke the women’s 100m butterfly record on Sunday as Sun Yang and Katie Ledecky retained their 400m freestyle titles at the world championships. China’s Sun, the reigning 400, 800 and 1500m world champion and record holder over the mile, clocked three minutes 42.58 seconds to win his final by more than a second as Britain’s James Guy ...

The multi-millionaire Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has given his agent Jorge Mendes a Greek island as a wedding present, media reports say. The island has not been named but the price tag could run into the millions, reports say. Spain’s Mundo Deportivo website says Ronaldo knows the Greek islands well from holidays. Mr Mendes married his partner Sandra in ...

Australia’s Prime Minister has rejected a proposal to consult Aboriginal people first about recognising them in the nation’s constitution. Aboriginal leaders want their own people to agree first on how to move towards constitutional recognition for the country’s first peoples. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said such a move would not gain broader support. Indigenous Australians are not mentioned in the ...