Beijing: China has banned hospitals from providing medical assistance and diagnoses online to prevent people unqualified in medicine from posing as doctors. Chinese patients are accustomed to seeking medical advice on the Internet, which has a deep penetration in the country. Some private hospitals have launched Internet services offering online diagnoses. Song Shuli, spokeswoman for the National Health and Family ...

A new smartphone app that tests blood samples for HIV and syphilis in just 15 minutes could save millions of lives across the world, scientists claim. The software, developed by biomedical experts at Columbia University, analyses blood samples taken with a finger-prick dongle. The kit, which attaches to any smartphone or computer, replicates a lab test and can give a ...

Dhaka may have a lack of establishments where one can go and drown their sorrows in endless goblets of wine or celebrate a new journey with a few rounds. However, there is one thing that our culture sure doesn’t have any shortage of. Parties! There’s a Facebook invitation to the next hot, new event awaiting us almost every time we ...

Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol are Bollywood’s most loved on-screen pair and the superstar, who is teaming with the actress for “Dilwale”, hopes they can recreate their magic for the Rohit Shetty film. The 49-year-old actor and Kajol have starred together in hits like “Baazigar”, “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge”, “Karan Arjun”, “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” and “Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham”. ...

Fire broke out in two flats where actress Riya Sen is living with her star mother Moon Moon Sen in Juhu here around 1 am. No one was injured, a source has said. “The incident occurred around 1 in the night (Sunday) when Moon Moon Sen was in the house with her daughter (Riya). However, none of them got injured,” ...

To pay tribute to Salman Shah, Dhallywood superstar Moushumi will make a film on the prematurely died superhero of the country. Salman-Moshumi was one of the most popular pairs in Bangladesh film industry. Their first film ‘Keyamat Theke Keyamat’ was released in 1993, which was a super hit film of that time. Moushumi said, “Salman was one of my best ...

After marriage popular ramp model Farzana Bubli went to Canada. There she gave birth to a female child in July last year. Despite getting offers to perform in TV plays and TV commercials after returning Bangladesh Bubli didn’t agree to work due her engagement with family members. At last, she has returned to small screen.To perform as a model in ...

A new Scream Queens teaser featuring Emma Roberts has been released.The promo for Ryan Murphy’s upcoming horror-comedy anthology series shows Roberts applying lipstick, using a large kitchen knife as a mirror, reported People magazine.The ensemble cast of Scream Queens also includes Lea Michele, Jamie Lee Curtis, Oliver Hudson, Abigail Breslin, Keke Palmer, Billie Lourd, Skyler Samuels, Lucien Laviscount, Diego Boneta ...

Bookshop owners of the Sylhet district are doing brisk business ahead of Bangla New Year since business establishments are buying ledger books (Tali Khatas) and almanacs (Ponjikas) on the occasion of Bangla New Year 1422. At the same time, idol makers locally called ‘Malakors’ are also earning money ahead of Bangla New Year by selling Ganesh idols to the Hindu ...

The people of the Sylhet district are preparing themselves to celebrate Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bengali New Year 1422, on Tuesday next amid much enthusiasm as thousands of people are expected to join the “Nabobarsha” programmes across the district. Different socio-cultural organisations and government institutions like district administration, City and Radio Pallikanto have drawn up elaborate programmes that ...