A recent study shows that dancing can reduce depression in people with Parkinson’s disease. This approach is fun, affordable, and doesn’t involve medication. Joseph DeSouza, a professor at York University, has been studying the impact of dance on people with Parkinson’s since 2013. He says dancing makes patients feel happy and energized. The research was mainly focused on how dance ...

Secretary-General of rights group Amnesty International (AI) Agnes Callamard called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus during the World Economic Forum Summit at Davos on Thursday. Robert Maersk Uggla, Chair of Danish shipping and logistics company A.P. Moller – Maersk, also met the Chief Adviser during the summit, CA’s Deputy Press Secretary Apurba Jahangir told BSS. Meanwhile, DP World Group ...

Some Tk 12,000 crore has been borrowed against the names of 16, out of 32 factories, at the Beximco Industrial Park which have no existence, according to the advisory council committee formed to review the labour and business situation of the companies at the industrial park. Brigadier General (Retd) Sakhawat Hossain, convener of the committee, and Labour and Employment adviser, ...

An election-time neutral government may be needed if the current interim government doesn’t remain impartial, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said. He made the remark while speaking at a discussion at Jatiya Press Club in the capital on Thursday (January 23). The discussion was organized by Shaheed Asad Parishad on the 56th death anniversary of Shaheed Asad ...

Refugees who had been approved to come to the United States before a deadline next week suspending America’s refugee resettlement programme have had their travel plans cancelled by the Trump administration. Thousands of refugees who fled war and persecution and had gone through a sometimes yearslong vetting process to start new lives in US are now stranded at various locations ...

The newly appointed Superintendent of Police (SP) of Habiganj held a meeting with local journalists on Wednesday. The event took place around 3 PM in the afternoon at the SP conference room. During the discussion meeting, several print and electronic media journalists greeted the newly appointed SP ANM Sajidur Rahman. Sazidur Rahman shared his future visions and assured that this ...

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain, who is now in China on an official visit, on Thursday (January 23) laid emphasis on narrowing trade gap and fostering regional connectivity with China to promote equitable growth, reports BSS. He made the remarks while delivering a keynote address at a seminar titled “Our Shared Vision for Peace, Stability, and Prosperity” at Shanghai ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has said the UN fact-finding report on the atrocities during the July-August uprising is at final stage and would be released by mid-February. The UN high commissioner made the comments when he called on Bangladesh Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum annual meeting ...

After serving 16 years, a total of 168 former members of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) were released from Kashimpur High Security Central Jail in Gazipur on bail on Thursday in an explosive case related to BDR mutiny. Their families have been waiting at the main of the jail since morning to receive them. The prisoners are coming out one after another. ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has sought the assistance of the European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde to recover billions of dollars stolen from Bangladesh during the fallen Sheikh Hasina dictatorship. The two dignitaries met in the Swiss city of Davos on Wednesday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum annual meeting. Prof Yunus told Christine Lagarde, also a ...