Turn heads this summer with bold party outfit choices

22 June 2026, 16:48 PM Fashion & Beauty
Celebrate vibrant Dhaka fashion by embracing sensual summertime styles like chocolate brown bodycon dresses and versatile black jersey numbers. These lightweight, breathable fabrics ensure boss ladies look chic while effortlessly conquering hot seasonal soirées.

5 epic destinations in Asia that won’t cost a fortune

Discover budget-friendly Asian travel destinations from Bangladesh, exploring Nepal, Bhutan, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand to experience breathtaking landscapes, vibrant culture, and world-class street food while creating unforgettable memories without breaking your bank account.

Your favourite snacks may be loaded with hidden salt

11 June 2026, 10:56 AM Health & Fitness
Control dietary sodium with insights from Dr Chowdhury Tasneem Hasin of Continental Hospital. Reducing hidden salt in processed snacks prevents hypertension and silent kidney damage, protecting the heart health of young adults across Bangladesh.
The colourful cauliflowers of Bangladesh
6 February 2023, 02:17 AM Life & Living Multimedia
Shankha Dasgupta: Meet the genius behind Guti
1 February 2023, 12:48 PM Life & Living
Despite charging fees, needs of passengers neglected
23 January 2023, 04:33 AM Life & Living Multimedia

Mummified bodies discovered on Mexican peak

Two mummified bodies are found entombed on a Mexican mountain
7 March 2015, 07:15 AM

THIS WEEK'S HOROSCOPE

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

World Cup Munchies

Rukhsara Osman takes you through the preparation of the crab topping for her pancake recipe for the World Cup.
3 March 2015, 13:03 PM

Breakfast and munchies for the World Cup

Watching a long cricket match can bring about hunger pangs. Waking up to catch an early game in the morning demands a sugar rush and a bit of good food to keep our tired eyes open, as well as keeping our tummies happy throughout the time.
2 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Contraception: your choice

Over the last few decades the fertility rate in Bangladesh declined to 2.1 births per woman and the use of contraceptives rose to 61percent among women between 15-49 years of age (World Bank 2010-2014).
2 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Post-Modern Memorabilia

Today's world is moving at such a fast pace that everything we see around us is slowly becoming obsolete. Modern day antiques are a fascinating subject, mostly because we saw them outliving us in front of our very eyes.
2 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Inside Alomahal

Inside Alomahal
2 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Land of the rising sun

IT'S hard enough for the uninitiated to throw a dart, what more a shuriken (four-pronged metal star), at a dartboard.
2 March 2015, 18:00 PM

The rise of female travellers

The world today is becoming a more travel-friendly place. Societies are encouraging people to “go out there and explore.”
2 March 2015, 18:00 PM

I am a WOMAN, not a SINNER

Traveling in Dhaka using public transport has been an ever daunting experience for me as a woman.
2 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

FASHION ANTHROPOLOGY

Many a prose has been composed about the Bengali belle. With her long, flowing locks, her practical cotton sari, her dusky complexion and modest earrings.
2 March 2015, 18:00 PM

The other half

In the last three decades or so, the Bangladeshi woman has shattered the social boundary and the collective stigma and now walks as equal to men. She is the other half of our economy, our society and our family.
2 March 2015, 18:00 PM

BLACK RED AND WHITE

Colours play an important role in making your ensemble. The strongest colours are so defined that they are striking and these colours are powerful when set against each other.
2 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Cut music to ‘an hour a day’: WHO

People should listen to music for no more than one hour a day to protect their hearing, the WHO suggests.
27 February 2015, 15:58 PM

GROWING UP THE '90S VS THE 2000S

If you feel trapped in eternal childhood, unable to get over all the awesomeness that you experienced as kids, we are here to make you feel worse. Well, not really. We know that growing up was magical and whether you are a 90s' kid or a millennial, you have fond memories from your era that you would never want to let go of.
26 February 2015, 10:09 AM

Tying the Gordian knot

Be it for a formal party, a corporate event, impressing girls or to effectively grade grub by looking suave in a class presentation – a proper necktie is the way to go to perfectly complement that mad men look you try to imitate with that slick suit and formal shoes.
23 February 2015, 18:00 PM

Curious reads @ Boi Mela

Books are an invaluable means of keeping your mind busy. Rather than spending countless hours in front of the PC, wasting every spare moment in social media, one should start rechanneling their leisure in more fruitful pursuits.
23 February 2015, 18:00 PM

Go nuts!

A nut is a fruit composed of a hard shell and a seed and is generally edible. Nuts have different nutritional values and offer health benefits as well as help in losing weight.
23 February 2015, 18:00 PM

Up close with Atul Vyas

Yoga is a much deeper exercise than pilates or interval boot camp or running, cycling, jumping rope, because it works on three levels: body, mind and spirit. It facilitates the opening of mental faculties like the blossoming of a lotus flower.
23 February 2015, 18:00 PM