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Food & Recipes
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Food & Recipes
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Food & Recipes
Sugary treats that tell the story of Baishakh
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Food & Recipes
Why village sweets beat city shops every time
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Food & Recipes
Nayeem Ashraf returns to build Bangladesh culinary industry
5 April 2026, 17:17 PM
Food & Recipes
Traditional Bangladeshi dishes made easy for modern cooks
26 March 2026, 21:38 PM
Food & Recipes
Heritage Bengali foods return to everyday tables with modern twist
26 March 2026, 21:13 PM
Food & Recipes
Swap fried iftar snacks for fresh healthy salads
2 March 2026, 16:23 PM
Food & Recipes
Prickly heat
Along with summer come the much dreaded heat and humidity. And for those of us who sweat a lot, prickly heat or heat rash is a common problem.
23 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Dance courses in Dhaka
Traditionally, we are keen on indigenous forms like Manipuri, Kathak and Odissi, but these days people want to experience the cultural diversity and are also keen on taking up western, Latin, etc. dance forms.
23 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Banging the drum for the drumstick
Drumsticks are pods of plants called moringa oleifera, known as sajna in Bangladesh.
23 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Myriad benefits of acupuncture
People have believed in alternative medicine like unani, homeopathy, ayurveda and acupuncture for over millennia.
23 March 2015, 18:00 PM
AS REFRESHING AS COENTRO
Have you noticed that recently some new restaurant hubs are gradually coming into being? Alongside locations like Dhanmondi, Banani 11 and Baily Road, etc. new areas have become hotbeds for hanging out and eating out.
16 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Caring for your fish
HEXAMITA is a flagellated protozoa (Protozoon) that lives in the intestinal tract of fish. They are ever present in the intestinal tract of fish and are like a certain strain of E.
16 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Scents and Decor
After a long, tiring day at work, we only wish to return home to a peaceful ambience.
16 March 2015, 18:00 PM
DESHI VEG DELIGHTS
The neem tree has diverse use in the traditional medicine and thus earned its just designation - 'Sorvo Rog Nivaroni' (the one that can cure all ailments).
16 March 2015, 18:00 PM
New additions in the BBQ MENU
The Korean franchise in Bangladesh had recently celebrated its one-year anniversary in the country.
16 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Strawberry Recipes PT 2: The Breakfast Pyramid
Here's the second part of Lifestyle columnist Reeme Islam's preparation of her Berry Healthy Salad.
11 March 2015, 11:29 AM
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
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
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
Hale and hearty
One of the most overused clichés you have probably heard is, “Health is wealth”. It has been used so much that the importance of it has probably been lost. We do not pay heed to our health.
17 February 2015, 09:46 AM
24/7 help at hand for women
ASSUMPTIONS. When it comes to technology, we assume a lot of things. We assume that with education and access to technology, anyone and everyone should be able to access information.
11 February 2015, 20:10 PM
For your 'deshi' sweet-tooth
Kheer Puli
Kheer is a kind of concentrated flaky milk that is often used as a filling to make a variety of pitha. Kheer puli pitha is very delicious and easy to make.
3 February 2015, 11:45 AM
Cosmetic surgery 'popularity declines'
The popularity of cosmetic surgery in the UK plummeted in 2014, figures show, reports BBC.
31 January 2015, 20:00 PM