Prothom-alo পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত BBC janalar ইংরেজি কোর্স ব্যবহারিক ইংরেজি শব্দাবলি lesson 01 থেকে 05 পর্যন্ত
Taking omega-3 fish oil supplements is often touted as a way simple way to protect your heart - but experts say the evidence that it does any good is flimsy at best. Cochrane researchers looked at trials in over 100,000 people and found little proof that it prevented heart disease. They say the chance of getting any meaningful benefit from taking omega-3 is one in 1,000. Eating oily fish, however, can still be recommended as part of a healthy diet. The review mainly looked at supplements rather than omega-3 from eating fish. Experts still believe the latter is good for the heart as well as general health. The NHS says people should try to eat two portions of fish per week, one of which should be oily fish, such as salmon, fresh tuna or mackerel, to get enough "good" fats. Omega-3 Omega-3 is a family of fats that includes: ALA (alpha-linolenic acid) - which the body can't make for itself but is found in vegetable oils, nuts and seeds EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) - which the body can make from ALA but are also present in oily fish and fish oils, including cod liver oil Some brands of milk, yoghurt, bread and spreads have extra omega-3 (usually AHA) added to them. But when it comes to fish oil supplements, Cochrane lead author, Dr Lee Hooper, from the University of East Anglia, said: "We can be confident in the findings of this review which go against the popular belief that long-chain omega-3 supplements protect the heart. "This large systematic review included information from many thousands of people over long periods. "Despite all this information, we don't see protective effects. "The review provides good evidence that taking long-chain omega-3 [fish oil, EPA or DHA] supplements does not benefit heart health or reduce our risk of stroke or death from any cause. "The most trustworthy studies consistently showed little or no effect of long-chain omega-3 fats on cardiovascular health." Some fish contain small amounts of chemicals that may be harmful if eaten in large amounts. Shark, marlin and swordfish may contain small amounts of mercury and should be avoided by women who are pregnant or planning a baby and by all children under 16. Other groups should eat no more than one portion of these fish each week. Prof Tom Sanders, a nutrition expert at King's College London and honorary director of Heart UK, said: "Current dietary guidelines to prevent cardiovascular disease encourage fish consumption, rather than taking supplements. "This study provides no evidence to suggest that this dietary advice should change." Buy vegetables Prof Tim Chico, a cardiologist from Sheffield University, said: "There was a period where people who had suffered a heart attack were prescribed these on the NHS. This stopped some years ago. "Such supplements come with a significant cost, so my advice to anyone buying them in the hope that they reduce the risk of heart disease, I'd advise them to spend their money on vegetables instead." Dr Carrie Ruxton, from the Health and Food Supplements Information Service, said early studies of omega-3 fats had found a protective benefit for the heart, but it wasn't always easy to pick up the modest effects of dietary change, particularly in older people on other medication. "For those who won't eat mackerel, salmon or herring, a daily fish oil supplement is a useful way of meeting recommendations. "Omega-3s are also used by the body to maintain the health of the eyes, immune function and brain so it's not all about the heart," she said. Latest News
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The adult-film actress who says she had an affair with Donald Trump before he became US president offered on Monday to give back the $130,000 that Trump's personal lawyer paid her to keep mum about the alleged relationship. Actress Stephanie Clifford, who goes by the stage name Stormy Daniels, is trying to end her deal not to discuss what she says was an affair that began in 2006 and lasted for several months. "This is an extremely fair offer," her attorney, Michael Avenatti, said in an interview. "It accomplishes the goal of allowing the American people to decide who is telling the truth after hearing both sides." Avenatti sent a letter to Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, on Monday saying the actress would wire the funds to an account of Trump's choosing by Friday. Avenatti set a deadline of Tuesday for Cohen to respond. Under the proposal in Avenatti's letter, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, Clifford would be allowed once the funds were returned to speak "openly and freely about her prior relationship with the president and attempts to silence her." She also would be able to "use and publish any text messages, photos and/or videos relating to the president that she may have in her possession, all without fear of retribution and/or legal liability for damages," the Avenatti letter said. The letter also asked that the president's lawyers agree that neither Trump nor the shell company Cohen used to pay Clifford would attempt to block the broadcast of an interview Clifford taped with CBS News' "60 Minutes" program last week. Clifford in turn sued Trump for the right to speak about the "intimate relationship" she claims they had, saying he never signed the agreement to keep her quiet. Clifford could be subjected to a $1 million penalty if she broke the nondisclosure agreement she signed. Avenatti told CNN over the weekend that at least 10 people had offered to pay the penalty if she would discuss the alleged affair. And it would require the agreement be signed by all parties, including the president, who did not put his name to the previous nondisclosure deal. Trump's personal lawyer, Cohen, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter, nor did Cohen's attorney. The White House also did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The offer from Avenatti came after White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told a briefing last week that Trump had won an arbitration proceeding against Clifford. The New York Times reported last week that the president's lawyer had secretly obtained a temporary restraining order to prevent Clifford from speaking out about her alleged affair with Trump. -Reuters Latest News
Prothom-alo পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত BBC janalar ইংরেজি কোর্স ব্যবহারিক ইংরেজি শব্দাবলি lesson 06 থেকে 10 পর্যন্ত
The 12 boys and their soccer coach who were rescued from a flooded cave arrive for a news conference in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand. -Reuters "Fight on, don't despair": the 12 boys and their football coach rescued from a flooded Thai cave complex described on Wednesday how they survived on nothing but dripping water, and even tried to dig their way out. The Wild Boars team were making their first public appearance after the long ordeal, waving, smiling and offering Thai traditional "wai" greetings on a national TV broadcast. One of the boys, 14-year-old Adul Sam-on recalled the moment when two British divers found the trapped group on July 2, squatting in a flooded chamber several kilometres within the cave complex. "It was magical," he said. "I had to think a lot before I could answer their questions," added Adul, who speaks English. "Everybody was happy, it was the most hopeful moment in 10 days." On Wednesday doctors, relatives and friends - some in yellow traditional clothes - greeted the boys, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach. The team were kitted out in T-shirts emblazoned with a red graphic of a wild boar, and kicked footballs gently on the TV set. "Bringing the Wild Boars Home", read a banner in Thai welcoming them on the set, designed to resemble a football pitch, complete with goalposts and nets. A crowd of media and onlookers were penned behind barricades as the boys arrived in vans from the hospital where they had stayed since their rescue from the complex in Thailand's northern province of Chiang Rai. "I told everyone fight on, don't despair," said one boy, describing how the group had battled to stay alive. Their discovery triggered the rescue effort that brought them all to safety over three days, organised by Thai navy SEALs and a global team of cave-diving experts. The order in which the boys eventually left the cave did not depend on the state of their health, said their coach Ekkapol Chantawong, whose efforts have been credited by some parents with keeping the boys alive. "The ones whose homes are the furthest went first, so they could tell everyone that the boys were fine," he added. The group had planned to explore the Tham Luang caves for about an hour after football practice on June 23. But a rainy season downpour flooded the tunnels, trapping them. "We took turns digging at the cave walls," Ekkapol said. "We didn't want to wait around until authorities found us." One of the boys added: "We used stones to dig in the cave. We dug 3 to 4 meters." That represents a depth of 10-13 feet. Their efforts were to no avail, Ekkapol said, adding: "Almost everyone can swim. Some aren't strong swimmers, however." The group, who had eaten before going into the caves, took no food on an excursion that was supposed to last only an hour, and had to subsist on water dripping from stalactites, he said. "We only drank water," said one of the boys, nicknamed Tee. "On the first day we were OK, but after two days we started feeling tired." -Reuters Latest News
২০০৯ সালে প্রথম আলো পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত বি বি সি জানালার লেসন,
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) here today issued warning for river ports of 16 districts in the country wherein riverports should hoist riverine warning signal number two. The inland river port warning has been issued for Rajshahi, Pabna, Bogura, Dhaka, Tangail, Mymensingh, Faridpur, Jashore, Kushtia, Khulna, Barishal, Patuakhali, Noakhali, Cumilla, Chattogram and Sylhet, according to a BMD massage released this morning. Rain or thundershowers accompanied with temporary West or North-Westerly gusty or squally wind speed 60-80 kph is likely to occur in many places over the country in the next 12 hours commencing 6pm today, it added. Latest News
Prothom-alo পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত BBC janalar ইংরেজি কোর্স ব্যবহারিক ইংরেজি শব্দাবলি lesson 21 থেকে 25 পর্যন্ত.
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing, China on Friday. -AA China has assured Bangladesh of facilitating the return of Rohingyas from Bangladesh as Dhaka sought active support from Beijing to this end.The assurance came during bilateral talks between Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi held in Beijing on Friday. During the meeting, Minister Ali briefed the Chinese side on the status of the 1.1 million forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, the Rohingyas, who have taken temporary shelter in Bangladesh. "The displaced Rohingyas are so traumatized that they want solid security guarantee for their return. They want to return to their original villages and not to any camps; they must be accorded opportunities to earn their livelihood," Ali said. He sought China's active support for expediting the process of early repatriation of these displaced people by encouraging Myanmar in creating a conducive environment in the Rakhine state for return and resettlement of these people, said the Foreign Ministry, reports UNB. The Chinese Foreign Minister affirmed full support of China in realising early repatriation of the displaced people to Rakhine and improve the resettlement environment in Rakhine by helping them build houses and creating economic opportunities, reports agency. China will offer humanitarian assistance to Bangladesh to help shelter and feed hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya refugees from neighboring Myanmar, AP reported from Beijing quoting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. China hoped repatriation of refugees could begin "as early as possible," he said after the meeting with his Bangladeshi counterpart."We will contribute our efforts (to help with offering more humanitarian aids) in line with Bangladesh's needs," Wang said. About 700,000 Rohingya have fled into neighboring Bangladesh since last August to escape what United Nations and US officials have called an "ethnic cleansing" campaign by Myanmar's government. Ali gave the number of refugees at 1.1 million. The UN refugee agency has signed a preliminary agreement for the return of the refugees with Bangladesh and Myanmar provided the conditions for a safe and orderly repatriation are fulfilled - something aid workers say still has not happened on the ground in Myanmar.China maintains close ties to Myanmar's powerful military and has refused to join international condemnation of the campaign of organized violence. The Chinese Foreign Ministry has previously described the issue as an internal affair containing "complicated historical, national and religious factors."Myanmar has denied Rohingya citizenship and other rights and considers them immigrants from Bangladesh, even though many have lived in Myanmar for generations. The two sides reviewed the progress made in implementation of decisions of Joint Statement issued during the historic visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Bangladesh in 2016. They also discussed the progress achieved in implementation of the different projects signed during the Chinese President's visit.The Foreign Minister sought support of his counterpart in early finalization and speedy implementation of these projects. Both sides emphasized the need for continued dialogue between the two countries through high-level interactions as well as people-to-people contacts and agreed to work together closely for the common development of the region. Earlier in the day, Ali called on the Chinese Vice-President Wang Qishan and briefed the Vice-President about the milestone achievements of Bangladesh under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, especially in socio-economic areas. Wang Qishan said the people of Bangladesh is in the right course of transforming their country into Golden Bengal with hard work and determination as was dreamt by their Father of the Nation and China is pursuing steadfastly their dream of rejuvenation of the country as articulated by President Xi Jinping. Foreign Minister Mahmood Ali is visiting Beijing from June 28-30 at the invitation of the State Councilor and Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi. Latest News
Prothom-alo পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত BBC janalar ইংরেজি কোর্স ব্যবহারিক ইংরেজি শব্দাবলি lesson 26 থেকে 30 পর্যন্ত .
Prothom-alo পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত BBC janalar ইংরেজি কোর্স ব্যবহারিক ইংরেজি শব্দাবলি lesson 26 থেকে 30 পর্যন্ত .
The big plans of a sequel to Shekhar Kapoor directional Mr India are finally over. It is reliably learnt that the Kapoor brothers, Boney and Anil Kapoor, who had produced and starred, respectively, in the original Mr India, have taken a collective decision to shelve the sequel. A source close to the development reveals, "It makes no sense to have a sequel without Sridevi. It's like Mother India without Nargis, or Agra without the Taj Mahal. Mr India is so closely associated with three main actors Anil Kapoor, Amrish Puri and Sridevi. And with two of them gone it would be impossible to recreate the magic of the original. Boney and Anil have decided to call off the sequel plans." Latest News
2010 সালে প্রথম আলো পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত বি বি সি জানালার লেসন, ২০১০ সালে প্রথম আলো পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত বি বি সি জানালার লেসন, Prothom-alo পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত BBC janalar ইংরেজি কোর্স ব্যবহারিক ইংরেজি শব্দাবলি lesson 31 থেকে 35 পর্যন্ত
2010 সালে প্রথম আলো পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত বি বি সি জানালার লেসন, ২০১০ সালে প্রথম আলো পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত বি বি সি জানালার লেসন, Prothom-alo পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত BBC janalar ইংরেজি কোর্স ব্যবহারিক ইংরেজি শব্দাবলি lesson 31 থেকে 35 পর্যন্ত
Prothom-alo পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত BBC janalar ইংরেজি কোর্স ব্যবহারিক ইংরেজি শব্দাবলি lesson 16 থেকে 20 পর্যন্ত
2010 সালে প্রথম আলো পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত বি বি সি জানালার লেসন, ২০১০ সালে প্রথম আলো পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত বি বি সি জানালার লেসন, Prothom-alo পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত BBC janalar ইংরেজি কোর্স ব্যবহারিক ইংরেজি শব্দাবলি lesson 31 থেকে 35 পর্যন্ত
Prothom-alo পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত BBC janalar ইংরেজি কোর্স ব্যবহারিক ইংরেজি শব্দাবলি lesson 21 থেকে 25 পর্যন্ত.
Prothom-alo পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত BBC janalar ইংরেজি কোর্স ব্যবহারিক ইংরেজি শব্দাবলি lesson 16 থেকে 20 পর্যন্ত
Prothom-alo পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত BBC janalar ইংরেজি কোর্স ব্যবহারিক ইংরেজি শব্দাবলি lesson 11 থেকে 15 পর্যন্ত
Prothom-alo পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত BBC janalar ইংরেজি কোর্স ব্যবহারিক ইংরেজি শব্দাবলি lesson 11 থেকে 15 পর্যন্ত
Prothom-alo পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত BBC janalar ইংরেজি কোর্স ব্যবহারিক ইংরেজি শব্দাবলি lesson 26 থেকে 30 পর্যন্ত .
Though the prices of other essentials remained stable over the last two weeks, most spices used in meat recipe went up by Tk 20 to Tk 000 per kg on average as Eid approaches. The price of cardamom mostly used in cooking meat to add flavour saw a sharp rise. Sources said prices of all kinds of spices have increased by Tk 20 to Tk 000 per kg during the last two weeks. Prices of other spices including cumin, cinnamon, turmeric, nutmeg and cloves have risen by Tk 20 to Tk 60 per kg. Every year, ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, the demand of spices gets higher compared to other times of the year as people purchase items like cumin, cardamom, cinnamon, pepper and cloves for cooking meat. The spices are imported from different countries of the country as these are not produced locally. According to sources in the commerce ministry, there are over 400 spice importers across the country. Of them 70 percent spices are imported by only 72 importers. There is a sufficient stock in the market. But syndicate has created an artificial crisis. As a result, the prices of the items have increased over Tk 50 to Tk 020 per kg in the last one week. The imported best quality cardamom is being sold at Tk 0,500 per kg which has increased by Tk 000. The price of Indian cumin has increased by Tk 50 on per kg which is now being sold at Tk 320 per kg. However, cumin imported from Syria and Turkey is costlier than Indian brand. The imported cumin is being sold at Tk 360 to 400 per kg. Haji Mohammad Enayetullah, President of Bangladesh'sSpices Traders Association, a platform of spice wholesalers, said country's spice market depends on imported items. In recent times, most of the spice prices have increased in the global market. The growing price is taking toll on the wholesale markets. Latest News
Prothom-alo পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত BBC janalar ইংরেজি কোর্স ব্যবহারিক ইংরেজি শব্দাবলি lesson 21 থেকে 25 পর্যন্ত.
Prothom-alo পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত BBC janalar ইংরেজি কোর্স ব্যবহারিক ইংরেজি শব্দাবলি lesson 16 থেকে 20 পর্যন্ত
Padma river has turned into a monster this year devouring two sqkm area in Naria upazila under Shariatpur. -AA River erosion has continued for the last few years but the Padma has become terribly destructive this monsoon and engulfed at least two square kilometers of land in Naria Upazila in the central district of Shariatpur. Over 66,000 hectares (256 square miles) of land have been lost, roughly the area of Chicago, one of the biggest cities in the US, to erosion caused by the Padma river since 1967, according to an August 2018 report published by the NASA Earth Observatory, the arm of the US space agency that focuses on the planet we live in. Muktarer Char, Kedarpur Union and a huge swathe of land in Naria Municipality have almost lost their existence to the continuous erosion of the river. At least 5,000 families in the areas have lost their households and become refugees, said Upazila Nirbahi Officer or UNO Sanjida Yasmin. Amirjan, more than 100 years old, became a widow 25 years ago. Her husband's small house was her only inheritance. The Padma devoured it three days back, leaving her with no place to take refuge. "I have never seen such ferocity of the river Padma," said Amirjan, a resident of Mulfatganj. Shaheda, another resident of Mulfatganj, has dismantled her wooden house and shifted some of her belongings to her neighbor's yard to survive the river erosion. At present, she is living under the open sky. Her husband used to earn their living by working as a day-laborer but Shaheda is anxious about their future as they lost everything, reports bdnews24.com. Moni Begum has been living in her father's house with her two children after her husband divorced her. She had to work as a domestic help to feed her children. Now the river has engulfed her father's house, and even the houses of those families Moni used to work for, Moni has nothing but an uncertain future. A big part of the house owned by Seema Das in Daspara Kedarpur went into the Padma about three days back. A small part of the house at its back still stood on the ground. Seema took refuge in daily prayers to save the last remaining part. Tamijuddin, an elderly person, has never envisioned such a disaster in life. There is nothing but 150 feet deep water now where his house once stood. The Padma has also begun to devour the Naria Upazila Health Complex, the only government institution with 50 beds for patients to provide health services to the 250,000 people. The affected families have taken refuge in the 39 cyclone centers. They have received rice and other dry food. The government has also moved to provide money and corrugate tins to rehabilitate the affected families. The locals have been demanding necessary measures to prevent the river erosion as most of the agricultural lands went into the Padma in the last few years. The government had approved a Tk 10 billion project in January to handle the issue. But river erosion struck again in July before the project could be started. Bangladesh Water Development Board in Shariatpur has placed 10,000 bags in the river as an emergency measure, it said. It has tamed the current to an extent but the erosion has not stopped. Authorities say they cannot start the project to save the river banks unless the monsoon water abates. Latest News
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The pilot of the US-Bangla plane that crashed at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport in March and killed 51 people appears to have lied to the control tower during the landing procedure, reports The Kathmandu Post. Captain Abid Sultan was smoking continuously inside the cockpit during the one-hour flight from Dhaka to Kathmandu, the newspaper reported citing a government investigation report which has been trashed by the US Bangla and Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB). According to details of an official investigation led by the Nepal government, Abid Sultan was going through tremendous personal mental stress and anxiety, leading to a series of erroneous decisions on his part before the fatal crash of Flight BS 211. Throughout the flight Sultan was behaving erratically in a departure from his usual temperament, which should have immediately raised red flags, Nepali investigators said in the report. Six minutes before landing, Sultan confirmed that the plane's landing gear was down and locked. "Gears down, three greens," the pilot said, according to the report, referring to the electrical indicator lights inside the cockpit. However, when co-pilot Prithula Rashid conducted a final landing checklist, the landing gears were not down. Minutes later, the plane carrying 67 passengers and four crew members burst into flames after missing the runway during its second landing attempt.Only 20 passengers survived the crash. Investigators say Sultan had been smoking cigarettes frequently during the hour-long flight from Dhaka to Kathmandu. The former Bangladeshi Air Force pilot, who had clocked more than 5,500 flying hours, had not disclosed to the airlines that he was a smoker. An examination of his medical records found that he had made inconsistent reports of his smoking habits. Investigators concluded that Sultan was undergoing severe mental stress inside the cockpit and also seemed to be fatigued and tired due to lack of sleep. "He was crying on several occasions," the report said. The report also shows that Rashid, the co-pilot, listened passively while Sultan made multiple abusive statements toward a female colleague, another co-pilot in the company who had questioned his reputation as an instructor.Their relationship was a major topic of discussion throughout the flight, according to the report. Details from the audio record show the pilot broke down and said that he was "very upset and hurt by the behavior of his female colleague" and that "she was the only reason he was leaving the company"."A cockpit is a place where personal conversations between colleagues are strictly prohibited when the aircraft is preparing to land or take off," said Captain Shrawan Rijal of Nepal Airlines. The Sterile Cockpit Rule under the US Federal Aviation Administration regulation requires aircraft pilots to refrain from non-essential activities in the cockpit during critical phases of flight, normally below 10,000 feet. On the day of the crash the US-Bangla flight had departed Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 12:30pm. At 1:50pm the plane began its descent.There was some confusion about where the plane would make its landing. The airport tower cleared the plane to land at one point on the runway, but the flight seemed to be making for a separate point.Local pilots monitoring the situation on the radar at the airport reportedly raised concerns that the US-Bangla pilots looked disoriented and lost. According to the flight recording, the pilots seemed to have lost their situational awareness and were having difficulty locating the runway. They did not communicate this information to the tower. The tower, which had cleared the flight to land at either of two points on the runway, cancelled the landing clearance when they sensed the confusion of the pilots.At one point the aircraft flew as low as 45 feet above the ground, just over one of the airport's terminal buildings. According to the Kathmandu Post, Nepali airline officials were horrified to see the plane fly so close to the tower and had praised the pilot for avoiding it and half a dozen fuelled planes parked nearby.The scene before the crash was 'something like a war film', according to airport officials inside the tower. When the aircraft touched down only the right landing gear hit the runway and the plane skidded to crash and came to a halt on a nearby field.A fire began within six seconds of the impact. According to the investigation commission, passengers had a high chance of survival because of the low impact, but had been trapped by the fire. A former member of Bangladesh Air Force, Sultan joined US-Bangla in 2015 and had a history of depression, the report said. He had been removed from active duty by the Air Force after his psychiatric assessment in 1993, but was re-evaluated by a psychiatrist in 2002, and was declared fit for flying. The report said that Sultan's detail medical history was not reviewed by US-Bangla Airlines when he was hired. Kamrul Islam, the general manager and spokesperson for the US-Bangla Airlines, declined the Post's request for comment.However, the report clarifies that Sultan did not exhibit any recurring mental issues during the medical examinations from 2002 to 2018. "None of the medical reports that the committee reviewed from 2012 to 2017 mentioned any symptoms about depression," the report said.The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh conducts annual medical checks on pilots. But according to a senior aviation export who spoke to the Kathmandu Post, many pilots refuse treatment of mental health issues out of fear the assessment will negatively affect their career. "Broken relationships, personality disorders, work stress, alcohol and drug problems all spell disaster," the expert, who asked to stay anonymous, told the Kathmandu Post. "And they try to manage their depression themselves, without proper attention and treatment." Afsana Khanam, Abid Sultan's wife, was hospitalised with a stroke after receiving the news of her husband's death. She later died in hospital on Mar 23. The couple left behind a son, Tanzib Bin Sultan Mahi. Latest News
