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

PRIDE GIRLS

Pride Girls has taken Dhaka city by storm. Funk, fun and comfort - the latest Pride Group venture has it all.
16 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Make your fashion statement with ARMADIO

Armadio is all about style, suave, and sensuality. When you walk into the store, you will find yourself in a space that calls for confidence and poise.
16 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Into the bloom

Seasonal fashion isn't always about wearing wool in winter and linens in summer. With the change in seasons, we see the dominance of some colours and prints over others. And what could be more synonymous with spring than floral prints?
16 March 2015, 18:00 PM

ROSE GARDENING 101

You will find several kinds of roses in local nurseries. Rose plants can be bought in bare root form, which are often planted in small poly bags filled with fertile soil. These can be directly planted in the ground or in a pot.
16 March 2015, 18:00 PM

THIS WEEK'S HOROSCOPE

This Week's Horoscope
11 March 2015, 18:00 PM

POCKETFUL OF POSERS

Psychologists Jean M Twnege and W Keith Campbell in their 2009 book concluded that we are in the age of a narcissism epidemic.
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Nosebleeds are sometimes cool

Everything scary has a beginning that people sometimes overlook.
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM

The mobile banking revolution

The best ideas, one may argue, are the ones that are most simple.
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Celebrate World Cup at Gloria Jean's

The ICC Cricket World Cup is the biggest sporting event of 2015 and cricket fans from around the world are ready to celebrate the win of their favourite teams.
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Accessories ahoy!

You may have just gotten a new smartphone or laptop, but do you know how to enhance the experience of using a state of the art gadget?
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM

THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY

Film screening: I Was Worth 50 Sheep
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM

e-learning: a new frontier

Coined by David Cormier in 2008, MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) are quickly gaining in popularity and are now all the rage in education.
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM

A ginger a day

Ginger can aid digestion. It is believed to increase saliva and other digestive fluids, improving indigestion and other related problems.
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM

To credit or not to credit

These days it seems almost everyone is living beyond their means. Credit has now become widely available to everyone who has a fixed income, nominal or otherwise.
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Put your best foot forward!

On an average day, clothes tend to take up most of our attention.
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM

MUST-HAVES perfect shoes

Perfect pair of shoes seems like a myth at times. Nothing can call a greater disaster than a shoe that ends up giving you blisters.
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Going healthy with strawberries

Every street corner and every market is again lined with red, scrumptious delights. Strawberries are back, and though this fruit was not to be seen in Bangladesh even a decade back, start of cultivation has brought it to the market in the last few years.
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Uttara's food scene

In a span of a few years, Uttara has emerged from a quiet little suburb to a bustling centre of activities.
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM

THIS WEEK'S HOROSCOPE

ARIES Facing difficulties? Stop complaining. The Irish have it worse.
4 March 2015, 18:00 PM

MODERN deshi

The Bengali belle is no longer walking down a street lined by hasnahena trees, as poetry will have you believe; today, she is not only a wife and mother, but an intellectual entity, an artist, an entrepreneur, an officer.
2 March 2015, 18:00 PM