From smog hanging over cities, to smoke inside the home, air pollution poses a major threat to health and climate.

This year, all the precursor conditions—chilly nights and sunny, warm days—were in place for a fabulous fall foliage season.

The beginning of October held a pleasant surprise for pizza fans. Pizza Hut Bangladesh launched one of their most anticipated and unique pizzas at the start of the month — The CheeseBurger Crown Pizza.

When we think of satranji, most of us usually think of just rugs and mats — and perhaps, table runners. That’s about it. But should that really be the case?

New Zealand Dairy Products Bangladesh Limited has launched BelleAme, a new premium biscuit brand, through a press briefing on 17 October, 2019 in the Daily Star Centre’s A.S. Mahmud Seminar Hall.

Another day, another torment. The same will follow the next day — the excruciating pain, inexplicable fatigue, and never-ending drowsiness.

Autumn, a season with breezy weather, is the perfect occasion for fashion; and flannels are the right choice which allow people to play with the styles. Keeping this in mind, Grameen UNIQLO has launched an entirely new Flannel Collection.

Walking into a hot pot date is nothing short of a challenge. With little experience; scratch that — no experience — it is quite a daunting task. And that is exactly where Yama Hot Pot & Grill comes in; pioneering the very concept of hot pot in Bangladesh.

These principals are testimony of the founder’s love for the environment and his morals, since leather tanning is one of the biggest sources of water contamination.

We all love to entertain. There are few things in life as delightful as having friends and family breaking bread together over light-hearted conversation. Bengalis are renowned foodies and our lives revolve around food, family, friends and fun.

October is here, and we can finally enjoy the slightly cooler weather, which will hopefully roll into a winter that lets us all enjoy our hot soups and steaming mugs of tea. With that in mind, here are a few recipes to encourage you to get more creative in the kitchen this week.

It was raining when our taxi made its way into the Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia, in spring. I had fallen asleep on the journey, as always, and remember waking up every now and then to a misty grey sky outside.

The Counselling Unit of BRAC University had organised a round-table discussion on 12 October, 2019, at the conference room, of BRAC University, Mohakhali.

The month-long Jamdani Festival, which was organised by Bangladesh Jatiya Karushilpa Parishad - National Crafts Council of Bangladesh (NCCB), in collaboration with the Bengal Foundation, and held at Bengal Shilpalay, Dhanmondi, Dhaka, ended on 12 October, 2019.

Get your girls and meet up every Tuesday at InterContinental Dhaka for an evening full of food, mocktails and gossip. All the facilities are designed to provide the best possible experience for a Tuesday getaway.

Our hope with the campaign has been to encourage reliance on local products, boosting productivity, economic development, and creativity, while encouraging the concept of conscious living — which promotes the understanding that we are all in this together and for a better world.

Maybe it was Anita Desai’s book The Village by the Sea or was it that movie My Japanese Wife—I do not remember so clearly now—that had us all riled up during that short four-day long journey down to the last villages of the Sundarbans.

Professor Pierce Chow is a Senior Consultant and Co-Director (Surgical) of the Comprehensive Liver Cancer Clinic at the National Cancer Centre Singapore; Senior Consultant Surgeon in HPB (Hepatic-Pancreatic-Biliary) and Transplant Surgery at the Singapore General Hospital; Professor and Course Director at Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore. He is specialised in the treatment of liver cancer and has carried out extensive research on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

As hard as eating right can be on a daily basis, it comes without doubt that the abundance of healthy options in the market has made it considerably easier.

I liked that department. It provided me with a lot of joy and comfort.