Bangladeshi Baby gets New Lease of Life in Delhi
A three-month-old Bangladeshi baby got a new lease of life in Delhi after doctors here in a leading private hospital performed a critical but successful heart operation upon him.// ....Toqi Ahmid, from Dhaka underwent the five-hour long open-heart surgery in Fortis Hospital on July 31 and will be discharged Saturday. ...."When the baby came to our hospital, the different chambers and veins of...Bangladeshi Wins America's Junior Miss Contest
Nora Ali, daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants to the United States, has been crowned America's Junior Miss 2007. ......Nora, 17, won the final competition, held in Alabama Saturday, by bagging prize money of more than $60,000, The Daily Star said Wednesday, quoting website wcco.com. ......"I just want to start a business and maybe even start a bio-medical company with my elder sister who does st...For Bangladeshis, a Nutritious Diet Would Cost 1,700 Pounds Per Week
New research by the British charity Save the Children, shows that if a Bangladeshi family wanted to eat a simple nutritious diet , they would have to spend three times their salary on food. ......According to official estimates reported by The Independent, this would amount to a 1,700 pound bill at the supermarket each week. ......The research calculated how much a healthy diet, based on local...