Older adults who have food insecurity are more likely to suffer from malnutrition, depression, and physical limitations that limit their ability to live independently. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest federally funded nutrition-assistance program in the United States. Research has shown that SNAP has reduced hunger and food insecurity in the general population. Little evidence is available, ...

Police recovered the body of a man stuffed in a sack from the Surma River at Dakshin Surma upazila in Sylhet district on Monday morning. Deceased identities, age around 40, could not found immediately. Quoting locals, Dakshin Surma Police Station officer-in-charge Md Kamrul Hasan Talukder said locals saw the body on a bank of the river at Baraiandi area and ...

Marking International Mother’s Language day, United Nations Development Programme has launched the Unicode version, with seven different iterations, of the UN Bangla font to ease access to the internet for Bengali language users. The UN Bangla font was first released on 21 February 2020 with a single version for offline use. The Unicode version was launched by UNDP Resident Representative ...

Turkey on Sunday said rescue efforts following last week’s devastating earthquake had ended in all but two provinces as visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced $100 million in fresh humanitarian aid. The 7.8-magnitude tremor that struck southeastern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6 has killed more than 44,000 people, with the likelihood of finding survivors two weeks ...

Lionel Messi scored a 95th-minute free-kick to give Paris Saint-Germain a 4-3 win over Lille in an extraordinary Ligue 1 game on Sunday in which Kylian Mbappe scored twice but Neymar was taken off on a stretcher with an ankle injury. Messi’s late winner came after PSG had squandered a two-goal lead and fallen 3-2 behind, with Mbappe grabbing a ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was admitted to United Hospital on Monday due to respiratory problem. The party media cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan confirmed the matter at 12:30pm. Earlier this morning, the senior BNP leader came to BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office. There he fell sick at 11:30am and was taken to the hospital. He is now under ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today conferred ‘Ekushey Padak 2023’ to 19 eminent personalities and two organizations in recognition of their contributions to various fields. She handed over the Ekushey Padak, the country’s second highest civilian award, at a ceremony at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in Dhaka. The Cultural Affairs Ministry organised the event on the occasion of ‘Amar Ekushey’ and International ...

The countrywide vitamin A plus campaign began at 10am on Monday with a target to provide the capsule to 2.20 crore children. Following health rules, one blue colour capsule will be given to each of the 25 lakh children aged six months to 11 months, while 1.95 crore children aged between 12 to 59 months will be fed red colour ...

Former communications minister and BNP’s former influential leader Barrister Nazul Huda died at about 10:00pm on Sunday (February 19, 2023) at Square Hospital in Dhaka, his wife Sigma Huda said. He was 80. Nazmul Huda was suffering from various complicated diseases over the last several years. He recently returned home from the hospital. Last week, his new party Trinamool BNP ...

A man, aged around 30 years old, was killed after a fire quickly tore through a residential building in the capital’s Gulshan Sunday evening, the fire service said. He was declared dead at 10:25pm after being rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of the hospital’s police outpost, said. Twenty-two people have been rescued so far from ...