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

THIS WEEK'S HOROSCOPE

Stay up at night and you'll go past wide-eyed and enter the realm of crazy-eyed.
29 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Let us gain wisdom

I am starting my column with a few quotes from one of the world's best financial wizards – Warren Buffett.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Goa love - the sea and Aguada

The sun was not setting. The moon was out. It was one of those days where the moon protests visibly in the sunny blue sky.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Yearning for YOGA

To the uninitiated, the art of yoga, a mysterious, strict discipline with an ever-growing number of followers, can be hard to understand.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Dhaka - The river city

Throughout human history, great rivers around the world have one time or another been polluted as industrialisation and urbanisation spread.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Tips for a rainy day

“Rain rain go away, Come again another day!”
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Cosmetics

This heat is no friend to the staying power of makeup, nor is it really doing much good for our skin.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Make up tricks!

Never put concealer or foundation on your eyelids as base.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Exclusivity defined at Le Reve

As one of the most popular fashion and lifestyle brands in the country, Le Reve is all set to woo customers with their new summer/monsoon collection. The wide range of apparel, for men, women and children, is now available at all stores and can also be browsed and bought online from www.lerevecraze.com.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

The Lost Panorama

Many major cities in the world boast a flowing river by its side. And it is the river that greatly contributes to the beauty or development of these cities. London has the Thames. New York has the Hudson River. Paris is blessed with the Seine. Dhaka, too, has a river it owes a lot to: the Buriganga.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Ease cough

Ginger peppermint syrup works as an expectorant, it helps loose and expel mucous from the lungs, if you have a bad infection. It will also stop the painful trickle at the back of throat that can trigger a cough.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Dealing with dampness

Monsoon is a season most of us love. But if you are not prepared or equipped well, rain can get on your nerves, like, when you forget the umbrella.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Photoshoot at 60? Why not!

Tuck that tummy in! Get that chest out! Straighten that chin! Well, that will do for the moment.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

How running helped me quit smoking

Not long ago, I was an overweight, pack-a-day chain smoker. It has been almost three years since I was that person, and more than a year since I smoked even occasionally.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Common Gynecological and Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment

On 4 July The Daily Star hosted a round table discussion and seminar on “Common Gynecological and Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment” with Dr See Hui Ti, Senior Consultant, Medical Oncology, Parkway Cancer Centre, as the chief guest.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

A grumpy brain?

Have you realised that when you are hungry, you tend to snap at the littlest things? Science can actually explain why being hungry can make you angry. Let's call it being 'hangry': the state of mind when you are hungry and angry.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Say Yes to Yogurt

“Oh my God, I ate way too much this Eid.” ”You think you ate too much? I can still taste the chicken biryani in my belches!”
16 July 2015, 18:09 PM

THIS WEEK'S HOROSCOPE

When you trust people, they will get dirt and water over everything that's important.
15 July 2015, 18:16 PM

Ethereal EID

This peaceful hue has many versatile avatars, and takes on a life of its own when adorned on a fashionista's person. It surrounds its wearer in a soft, hazy mist of understated glamour, an unmistakable aura of luminosity.
13 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Ferari's Eid Collection

Fashion house Ferari is now featuring their brand new Eid collection. This includes newly designed T-shirts, polo shirts, shirts and short panjabis. The collection is available at their showroom, Shop #308, Ground Floor, Jurain Tower, Shampur Dhaka-1204.
13 July 2015, 18:00 PM