Bangla Mirror Desk :: The National Mourning Day and 40th Death Anniversary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was observed on Saturday 15 August 2015 by Bangladesh High Commission in London in a befitting manner and with due solemnity. Members of expatriate Bangladesh community, officials and staff of the High Commission participated in a programme arranged ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: United Kingdom Awami League organised a condolence meeting to commemorate the 40th death anniversary of leader and founder of Bangladesh, Bagnabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.   The condolence meeting was held at Monte Fiore Centre in East London. President of UK Awami  League Sultan Mahmud Sharif presided over the meeting. Genetal Secretary Syed Shajidur Rahman Faruque conducted the ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Bangladeshi origin writer Zia Haider Rahman has won the James Tait Black Literary Prizes, Britain’s oldest literary award, for his debut novel In the Light of What We Know. The novelist has joined some of the world’s greatest names in literature, including DH Lawrence, Graham Greene, Angela Carter and Ian McEwan, by winning the prize this year. ...

Giving obese teenagers extra vitamin D pills can elevate their cholesterol and fat-storing triglycerides levels, an Indian American researcher has discovered. Seema Kumar, pediatric endocrinologist in the Mayo Clinic Children’s Centre also found no benefits of extra vitamin D supplements in improving heart health or decreasing diabetes risk. Parents and providers often put obese adolescent children on vitamin D regiments ...

A team of doctors here on Monday conducted the first-ever “stomach laparoscopic bypass operation” to reduce obesity. The operation was carried out at Bangladesh-Japan Friendship Hospital (BJFH). Chairman of the hospital and eminent laparoscopic surgeon Professor Dr Sardar A Nayeem led the 10-member specialist surgery team, BSS reports. The team included Surgeon of Bel View Hospital in India Dr Sarfaraz ...

Although 60 percent kidney ailments are curable yet one in five kidney patients die in every hour in the country, leading health experts told a seminar in Dhaka on Thursday. The number of kidney patients has increased alarmingly as two crore people in the country are now somehow suffering from kidney disease, said the seminar titled “Kidney disease prevention and ...

From striking some cool conversations to cracking the chemistry with your crush, we bring to you some very easy tips that will help you to break the ice on your new campus Surely, your first brush with your new college life was an eclectic mix of nervousness, excitement, pretty crushes and a sense of anxiety. But there are still many ...

Moderate amount of physical activity, particularly walking and bicycling, can significantly lower the risk of heart failure, says a study. The participants who had the lowest levels of physical activity had a 47 percent higher risk of heart failure while those with highest levels had 51 percent higher risk than men with a median level. When analysing the different types ...

After work on a recent Friday, 53-year-old Lee Jin-soo headed for the “Happy Guys Cooking Class,” where he joined six other mostly middle-aged men in tall white hats and aprons. Lee, who runs a business making compression bags for bedding, gently handled abalone and shrimp and made a rice crust that went into the Korean stew of chicken and seafood ...

Childhood obesity is a growing health problem that has reached epidemic proportions in many parts of the world, especially in countries like the US, India and China and other nations in the world.Preventing obesity in children is a pressing concern and parents need to be better informed, so as to make more knowledgeable choices and decisions for their children.Childhood obesity ...