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.
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Discount from YUDO Design Source

To celebrate their second anniversary, YUDO Design Source is offering a flat 30 percent discount on all of their products. Fashion forward individuals can avail this offer in all eight of their outlets including Jamuna Future Park, Mirpur, as well as outside of Dhaka in Khulna, Bogra to name a few.
26 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Ambling through the City of Victory

Travel back to the bygone days of the Vijayanagara dynasty. The ruin of the ancient city of Hampi today stands amidst gargantuan boulders. Climb up the 575 steps to the Anjaneya temple to view the sunset and hike atop the Matanga hill for a sublime sunrise, or take a coracle ride across the Tungabhadra river during the wee hours, the only sound breaking the silence being the swish-swash of the oar dipping in the water.
22 March 2018, 18:00 PM

These are the most welcoming countries for expats

Social butterflies looking to make new friends in foreign places are to have more success in countries like Portugal, Taiwan and Mexico, which emerge as the most welcoming countries for expats in a new survey.
22 March 2018, 05:36 AM

This Week's Horrorscope

Walls close in and the ground disappears, I wish I could fly.
21 March 2018, 18:00 PM

French Food Festival at Le Méridien Dhaka

To present the wide variety of French cuisine, Le Méridien Dhaka is hosting Goût de France (Good France) food festival for the foodies around Dhaka in collaboration with the Embassy of France to Dhaka. The festival will be held on March 21, 2018 at Le Méridien's Latest Recipe.
19 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Aarong - Preview Fashion Show

In luminous grandeur and extravagance, Aarong, the country's largest lifestyle retailer hosted a dazzling fashion show as an exclusive preview event to mark the launch of its much-anticipated Baishakh 1425 collection.
19 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Independence Day with Kay Kraft

Kay Kraft is embracing the youthful vigour of Independence Day in their newest collection, called Shadhinota-18.
19 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Mr. Fancy Pants

Being an essential complement to the panjabi, the right pajama can indeed make or break an outfit. With that in mind, why not jazz up the bottom-wear for a change?
19 March 2018, 18:00 PM

The Inspiration Game

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us... As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others,”- Marianne Williamson
19 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Memoirs of '71

She was the first woman in her village Boro Tajpur to have completed matriculation and move to Kolkata for pursuing higher education. When the everyday commute to the heart of Kolkata and got too difficult, her family a decided to send her to Dhaka to stay with her brother Abdul Bari and continue her college education. A decision that changed her life, forever!
19 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Garlic 'n Ginger: Multi cuisine redefined

Although it is hard finding places in the enormous Jamuna Future Park, Garlic 'n Ginger draws you in with its big letters on a wooden sign. It is a unique multicuisine restaurant with exceptional dishes, breath-taking interiors, and impeccable service. Garlic 'n Ginger started with a vision to become a local brand that can compete toe to toe with the foreign franchises in the country in terms of taste and quality. “We
19 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Chutney and achar

Come summer, it's time to stock up on pickles! So, don't lose this opportunity to add a jar of lip-smacking pickle to your store.
19 March 2018, 18:00 PM

A day at the post office

Passport is one form of identity. One may also be quick to relate nationality to the use of currency. Yet, most people miss the link between our individuality on a world scale, and how it is represented by little ambassadors of every nation — postage stamps!
19 March 2018, 18:00 PM

An ode to loss and victory

Nine months, which undeniably felt much longer than they were, had passed and thousands of lives had been lost. The lionhearted freedom fighters who had been in constant battle for days and nights persevered with every ounce of strength and courage they had left in them. Their resilience and unity had managed to weaken the nerves of the enemy to a significant extent and when the Indian forces joined
19 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Birangana, representations of lost stories in the contemporary

Only recently, as International Women's Day was observed throughout the world; the demise of freedom fighter Ferdousi Priyabhashini just two days before the day we celebrated womanhood, and the preparation to commemorate our Independence Day within a few days create both a sense of loss and joy in our hearts and minds.
19 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Meena Bazar: for the welfare of women

Every day, Meena Bazar offers the freshest products for its customers to bring freshness in their lives and a smile of satisfaction. To commemorate International Women's Day, Meena Bazar took an initiative to bring smiles and happiness for the underprivileged women.
19 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Thank god it's FrIday

EMK Cinema Nights presents Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own — a 1992 American sports comedy-drama of an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The screenplay for the all star cast film, with Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Madonna, and Lori Petty, was written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel from a story by Kelly Candaele and Kim Wilson.
19 March 2018, 18:00 PM

The portrait of an artist

How does one pay tribute to the lifetime achievements of an artist, especially when the iconoclast is Ferdousi Priyabhashini? Growing up in Khulna, a quaint town of the then East Pakistan, she once nurtured a passion for music. Her relinquished desire to become an exponent of Tagore gave Bangladesh one of its most revered sculptors.
19 March 2018, 18:00 PM

The voices of nations

There is hardly anyone of the modern world unfamiliar with historical speeches-- from Dr. Martin Luther King or Abraham Lincoln or even older speeches from ancient times by Socrates or Pericles. Volumes after volumes of compilations of the great and famous (and also of the infamous and dreaded) are not only easily available but come with audio and video recordings to present a fully immersive experience.
19 March 2018, 18:00 PM

When a nation speaks

The unforgettable baritone that transcends time and vision- that would be a paltry description of what Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman gave to the nation on March 7, 1971 at Dhaka's Suhrawardy Udyan. The historic congregation of almost 10 lakh people at the then Race Course ground (now Suhrawardy Udyan) at the end of the 20-minute speech bore witness to the all defining words: “Ebar-er shongram
19 March 2018, 18:00 PM