Faiza Khondokar

The Bachao App was created to help prevent rape, a crime that remains to be constantly on the rise. The Bachao app is an excellent initiative to fulfil this purpose. We should all contribute by registering as volunteer so that if the time comes, we can save someone from something horrible.

The Fashion Design Council of Bangladesh (FDCB) took part in the event where the work of 11 Bangladeshi fashion designers were displayed.

The constant rise in cases and periodic lockdowns brought a kind of hiatus on Bangladesh’s tourism for more than a year. Fortunately, for the last two months or so, things started looking relatively better as number of cases started reducing and mass vaccination was underway.

Kashmiri’s Studio was launched in 2018. The owner, Kashmiri Sultana, had always been very passionate about cooking and baking.

Flared and wide-legged jeans were everyone’s go-to denim option before skinny jeans became a thing. They are very comfortable to wear in almost all weather and can be paired with a variety of tops. These jeans are a good option for both official and casual looks. They seem to go well with almost every body type.

However, it is not as easy as it seems to pull the look off properly. Certain hacks must be followed to get the desired result.

Hair fall is a phenomenon almost everyone faces in some point of life, irrespective of gender or age. Excluding the very few lucky ones, most people experience hair fall in either mild or extreme forms

To put it simply, counselling is the science of talking out our emotions and feelings, and learning the mechanism of dealing with them. To be more precise, it is the process of taking professional help or support to solve or minimise any kind of emotional or psychological issue.

There is of course no way to reduce this pain at that very moment and the void created by the passing of a dear one can never be filled. Yet, life must go on and we have to move on.

One of the best forms of physical exercise

If you are thinking of embarking on the fitness journey to work off all that lockdown weight or are already on board, here are a number of exercise apps that can be your best friend. They will give you a pretty decent workout experience and enable you to analyse your performance, so make sure to check them out.

The month of June celebrates something we all love — food! There have been many technologies innovated and introduced globally that serve to ensure that absolutely the safest and best food is delivered to consumers.

Antioxidants are compounds produced by the human body that fight free radicals, substances that are by-products of our body’s regular metabolism. These radicals do not pose much threat when present in moderate amounts. However, excess amounts jeopardise human health and have been linked to a wide variety of diseases.

Every Breath, The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks); It Ends with Us (Colleen Hoover); Beautiful Disaster (Jamie McGuire); Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell);

As part of International Women’s Day, BRAC University Natural Sciences Club (BUNSC) arranged an event, styled ‘Today’s Athena,’ at BRAC University’s Mohakhali campus. The name was inspired by Athena, the Greek Goddess of warfare, courage and wisdom. The programme was divided into two phases — a self-defence workshop, followed by a very interactive talk session.

Stepping into the first month of a new year, we also enter a month of cancer awareness.

BRAC University Natural Sciences Club (BUNSC) arranged their day-long fund-raising event, ‘Help to Heal,’ on 18 November, 2019 at their Mohakhali campus. The main objective behind this event was to create awareness on breast cancer and to help fight it at the same time.

To combat breast cancer, October had been declared as ‘Breast Cancer Awareness Month’ since 1985.

If you are not blessed with 20/20 vision, and if lenses or surgery — no matter how trivial, is one that you shall avoid till you breathe your last, then you are left with no choice but to rely on your glasses as your ‘vision partner.’

As she stepped outside, the sunshine made Laila squint, and she had to use her hands to block the light. Her tiny hands now felt