Get your body moving: Athleisure at its best!

Athleisure dominates 2025 fashion, blending fitness and everyday wear for modern lifestyles. With versatile, sweat-wicking designs, local Bangladeshi brands now rival global labels in quality and style. Comfort meets chic minimalism as workwear and activewear seamlessly merge post-pandemic.
20 October 2025, 09:38 AM Life & Living

Can being too nice weaken your body’s defences?

Chronic people-pleasing triggers persistent stress, causing immune system dysregulation and inflammation. This may increase autoimmune disease risk over time. Prioritising self-care and reducing chronic stress supports immune health and reduces long-term biological harm.
23 October 2025, 10:49 AM Life & Living

To play or not to play…

By the time a young gamer reaches his fifteenth birthday, he has already killed thousands of his so-called enemies.
8 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Floral arrangement interpreting the hanging

One of the most romanticised, and perhaps rightly so, elements of nature are the wild flowers, and people's attempts at arranging them to enhance the beauty of the originals.
8 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Le Reve's Spring/Summer Collection

Last season's trending checks have become smaller and finer, while a focus on fabric structure and texture is apparent in the organic shapes and pinpoint asymmetrical effects.
8 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Dress up or down, with a shirt

“On a shirt, every button has its own button-place. Fix a button elsewhere and your dressing goes crazy.”
8 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Early Coinage of Bengal

There are many roads to the past: discovering and understanding history can be accomplished by many means, from digging up archaeological ruins to reading manuscripts. Another interesting way of unlocking history is through the study of coins.
8 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Nitya Upahar offers big discounts

Nitya Upahar is currently offering huge discounts for the month of August at their outlets located in Shahbagh and Mohammadpur.
8 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Leelabali Lifestyle start their journey

Keeping the needs of women in mind, Leelabali Lifestyle has started their journey by opening a new showroom at Banani.
8 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Farnaz Alam's perfect contouring

Contouring is a technique that gives shape to an area of the face and enhances the facial structure through makeup.
8 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Cookbooks for rookies

Cooking, like all other forms of art, is no rocket science; yet it requires passion, taste and a lot of practice. Nobody is going to become Matt Preston in a day but that being said, most amateur cooks do not usually know where to begin.
8 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Our love for food

It probably will not surprise you to learn that Dhaka is now the 'fattest' city in Bangladesh. That does not mean we have wider streets but that the people walking down these streets are wider than in other cities.
8 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Packed lunches

Although it is very tempting to have Fakhruddin's biryani or KFC’s chicken fry every day for lunch, it is surely taxing on the stomach. When any food item is deep fried, the quality of the item becomes less healthy and multiplies in caloric density. Most of the delicious food that we can ever think of either have too much oil in them or too much sugar! So, does it mean that we must have dull and drab food everyday and keep away the delicacies for special occasions? Not necessarily!
8 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Colours from lives unknown

Today is the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. It is not common knowledge that Bangladesh is home to about 35 ethnic communites, roughly consisting of 2.5 million people – 1.5 percent of the population.
8 August 2016, 18:00 PM

A guide to online learning

We live in an age of constant technological transformation that is driven by quite possibly the greatest invention of all time - the Internet.
8 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Freelance: how it works

Internet, the apparent source of many modern wonders, also allows for earning money online. You can open an online business and sell goods or services.
8 August 2016, 18:00 PM

THIS WEEK'S HORRORSCOPE

This week you will get wet in the rain, but not feel it.
3 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Friends at Favola

With Friendship Day just around the corner, Le Méridien Dhaka is gearing up to present yet another unique engagement for the residents of the capital.
1 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Studio 6/6

Art offers an escape from the unending chaos of the world and the artists are the guardians of this tranquil realm.
1 August 2016, 18:00 PM

On Music

You can take all the novels in the world and not one of them will make you feel as good as fast, as 'I've got sunshine on a cloudy day, when its cold outside I've got the month of May' - Music and Lyrics (movie)
1 August 2016, 18:00 PM

The dreadful Karwan Bazar

Perhaps one of Dhaka's oldest business districts, Karwan Bazar, where caravans of yore once parked, still remains one of the busiest hubs of all commercial activities in Dhaka, from white collar business to a massive grocery market and the ever smelly wholesale depot of fish that sits here every morning.
1 August 2016, 18:00 PM

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Perhaps, there is not a single lady in the world that does not love the colour pink. Some kind of a natural affinity exists between pink and us women.
1 August 2016, 18:00 PM