Sri Lanka team head coach Sampath Perera addressing a pre-match press conference at a hotel in Jessore on Thursday.

51pc BD newborns breastfed right after birth: Unicef

Although women in South Asia are breastfeeding longer than women in any other region in the world, only 51 percent of newborns are breastfed within an hour after birth in Bangladesh, Unicef said in a new analysis released on Sunday.In Bangladesh, only 51 percent newborns are breastfed within an hour of birth while 55 percent of infants less than 6 months old are exclusively breastfed. Breastfeeding for a longer period is important for a mother as her risk of developing...

14 May 2018, 12:00 am