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

Pigeon's new line of t-shirts

Fashion house Pigeon brings the latest t-shirts themed on the upcoming Durga Puja festival.
12 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Durga with changing times

A young Chandra Shekhar Shaha used to wake up at dawn for puja. The day would begin when the first rays of the sun just timidly started to reveal the temples, the mandaps and the idols; when the silence of the night got ravaged by the deafening beats of powerful 'dhaks'. Shekhar would, at that odd hour, leave his bed and go to the mandap, ready to embrace a busy and fun day.
12 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Rang's Durga Puja collection

With the upcoming Durga Puja festival in mind, notable fashion house Rang launches an extravagant collection just for the occasion.
12 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Winter Bridal Packages

Clients can select from a wide range of bridal packages for all tastes and budgets, including free services for brides and their friends and families. For information on package details and pricing, please contact or visit Farzana Shakil's Makeover salon outlets at:
12 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Removing cupboard odour

Engaged in mundane activities of our busy lives we often forget simple things that can escape our eyes. Musty odour inside cabinets is one such thing.
12 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Mourning for Karbala

Almost a millennium and half later, the teachings of the sacrifice at Karbala is as relevant as the day blood was spilled on the banks of the Euphrates.
12 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Weekend walls

Seeing your every day walls transform into an expression of art is a joy in itself, which increases with your involvement in the process.
12 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Nostalgia and the flowing life

The charm of watercolour remains. From the splendid masterpieces of Zainul and other stalwarts to the new breed of artists, experimenting and innovating, watercolours enchant us and it would not be wrong to assume that the Bangladeshi art scene nurtures a soft corner for this vibrant medium.
12 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Toddlers in a gym

The sign outside the gym door says that children are not allowed inside. But I pretend I cannot read English when I hit my proximity card key fob on the gym door to allow me in. Why? Because I have no other choice but to ignore this particular sign.
12 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Aarong Puja Collection 2015

Aarong, the largest lifestyle retail chain in Bangladesh, brings to you the Aarong Puja Collection 2015 for the upcoming Durga Puja celebration. The collection is available at all Aarong outlets nationwide and aarong.com, for both men and women.
12 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Sadakalo celebrates Children's Day

Keeping the upcoming Children's Day in mind, Sadakalo is working on brand new father-son and mother-daughter duo dresses, which are now available in all showrooms.
12 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Kay Kraft's Puja collection

In celebration of Durga Puja, renowned fashion house Kay Kraft is featuring a new Puja line.
12 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Bti hosts programme on Earthquake and related facts Important for apartment living

The main objective of the event was to create social awareness among the mass people on earthquake. Bangladesh is a country prone
10 October 2015, 18:00 PM

DIY Décor Adding depth to dull surfaces

You can add depth to flat surfaces by including contrasting diagonal stripes. How do you do that? Use masking tape to lay out lines that
10 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Tips for a friendlier home

Often while building the home of your dreams, you forget a few aspects that can create headache in the future. Therefore, apart from
10 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Worried Sick?

Hypochondria, also known as Hypochondriasis, Health Anxiety or Illness Anxiety, is best described as the obsessive, irrational fear of
8 October 2015, 18:00 PM

THIS WEEK'S HOROSCOPE

Tonight you will be visited by the spirit of indecisiveness. Maybe.
7 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Direct Fresh and Thrive partners for feeding slum children

Direct Fresh (Dhaka's premium online grocery store) has agreed to deliver food at cost to Thrive(a non-profit organisation) and facilitate for its customers to make donations.
5 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Run away from diabetes

Novo Nordisk, in association with Sports International, will organise Novo Nordisk Dhaka Half Marathon 2015. The country's biggest marathon is going to take place on 13 November – the eve of World Diabetes Day – to create awareness about physical activity and encourage people to invest time in it.
5 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Fish liver oil; its dietary and therapeutic value

Are you hooked on fish oil yet? It is said to be a natural wonder drug proven to treat a range of conditions! Allow me to give you the 411 on this superfood.
5 October 2015, 18:00 PM