How colours define every festival in Bangladeshi culture
Fashion & Beauty
Nayeem Ashraf returns to build Bangladesh culinary industry
Food & Recipes
How SHAPE is redefining lingerie for women in Bangladesh
26 March 2026, 21:51 PM
Fashion & Beauty
Empower your daily routine with SHAPE’s seamless bras, specifically engineered by Monoshita Ayruani for South Asian bodies. This Dhaka-based brand prioritizes inclusive sizing and skin-tone-accurate shades like coffee, ensuring ultimate comfort and invisible confidence.
5 best quick getaways from Dhaka for your Eid holiday
Travel
Explore top Dhaka day trips like Panam City, Moinot Ghat, and Netrokona’s China Clay Hills. These scenic Bangladesh destinations offer historic colonial architecture, traditional Muktagacha Monda sweets, and serene river views for a perfect getaway.
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
Is chicken haleem even haleem?
26 February 2026, 14:54 PM
Food & Recipes
6 refreshing drinks you can make at home during Ramadan
16 February 2026, 19:39 PM
Food & Recipes
Stay fit this Eid without skipping your favourite foods
18 March 2026, 06:08 AM
Health & Fitness
Manage holiday weight gain during Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adha celebrations with mindful eating strategies. Prioritize fiber-rich vegetables and protein over carbohydrates, choose water over sugary sodas, and enjoy short walks to support healthy digestion.
Why you should eat dates every day even after Ramadan
18 March 2026, 03:49 AM
Health & Fitness
Ramadan Reset: Breaking the Shackles of Sugar Addiction
12 March 2026, 19:15 PM
Health & Fitness
Expert tips to stay fit and healthy throughout holy Ramadan
9 March 2026, 09:07 AM
Health & Fitness
Snoring at night? Low vitamin D might be playing a role
23 February 2026, 13:57 PM
Health & Fitness
Want a healthy iftar? Ditch the sugary sweets for these options
19 February 2026, 14:41 PM
Health & Fitness
Mosabbir Alok Nibash giving cancer patients a home
19 February 2026, 14:32 PM
Health & Fitness
Science explains why dancing is a powerful tool against depression
19 February 2026, 14:03 PM
Health & Fitness
How gastritis affect fasting during Ramadan, and what helps
16 February 2026, 19:16 PM
Health & Fitness
#Perspective / The tragic fate of stray animals in Japan Garden City
23 November 2024, 05:20 AM
Life & Living
Navigating Dhaka's Eid shopping scene on a budget
28 March 2024, 08:36 AM
Lifehacks
My Dhaka / Comrade, give me a cup!
30 May 2023, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh
Gossip king Karan Johar called out for leaking celebrity relationship details without consent
In the world of gossip, its common knowledge that Karan Johar is the usual suspect when it comes to spilling the beans on personal details about Bollywood celebrities and their dating life on his masala chat show, Koffee With Karan 7. Karan took his guests by surprise or shock by confirming the rumours of their relationships; from Sara Ali Khan-Kartik Aaryan's relationship to Ananya Panday-Ishaan Khatter's breakup, Karan spilt it all.
20 August 2022, 09:48 AM
Celebrity brides and Sabyasachi: A perfect match
Being a Sabyasachi bride is probably on every girl’s wedding checklist now. With all the looks being so unique from one another, we can see why Sabyasachi has become the favourite bridal designer of all these celebrities. Here is a list of celebrities who looked breath-taking as a Sabyasachi bride.
20 August 2022, 09:36 AM
Characteristics of self-confident people
The very significance of self-confidence is essentially tied with making ourselves feel comfortable, as well as self-assured in our own skin. The doorway to our greatest accomplishments and realisations is more often than not held steadily by confidence itself. Exercising self-confidence is one of the best practices you could do for yourself. A very simple and easy trick to practice being confident is to rub shoulders with those who already are.
18 August 2022, 12:32 PM
Relationship Matters: Setting Professional Goals
Our relationships and how we navigate them keep evolving with the times. Often, we find questions or worries so personal that they can only be shared with a stranger, but any random stranger is no real solace! Nor is the advice safe. With that in mind, Star Lifestyle brings to you a brand-new relationship advice column from certified experts. This hopes to tackle the host of worries, questions and forks in roads of the relationships plane that includes the personal, professional to psychological. Read on for insights, and shoot us your concerns, even anonymously at lifestyleds@yahoo.com, or send us a message on Star Lifestyle's Facebook page.
18 August 2022, 12:27 PM
The Netflix K- Drama Effect: How women are moving to Korea to find love
What is now being referred to as ‘The Netflix effect’, hundreds of women in their early 20s, mostly originating from North America and Europe are visiting South Korea and flooding local hostels. This movement caught the attention of Min Joo Lee, a postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University Bloomington researching on Korean gender and race politics who decided to take a deeper look into it.
18 August 2022, 12:20 PM
Story of #BoycottBollywood
In the last few months, the glistening ocean with the colour of money started to go dry for the Bollywood ship after the trending hashtag popping up on twitter; #boycottbollywood. The hashtag first appeared during untimely demise of Bollywood actor, Sushant Singh Rajput. Blockbuster Movies with huge star power behind them are falling prey to the #BoycottBollywood trend. With every other movie to delivering box office duds, the glory days are currently in rear-view mirror of Bollywood.
18 August 2022, 12:11 PM
4 fashion statements that you should avoid at all costs in 2022
Each of our individualities speak through our fashion statements, representing the choices we are willing to make. This itself can go both ways — not always are the choices we make have the best feedback, and rightfully so. Some aspects of our intrinsic relationship with fashion, its phases and its trends are atrocious than anything else. Here are four fashion statements that you should avoid at all costs.
18 August 2022, 12:06 PM
Biman flight to China’s Guangzhou takes off
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has started operating flights on Dhaka-Guangzhou route from today (August 18, 2022).
18 August 2022, 07:51 AM
Tackling the Talk: Parents and their Mental Health
To see your loved one suffering from mental illnesses is a painful experience.
18 August 2022, 00:00 AM
Thank God It’s Friday
If you want to do something other than have an outing at yet another restaurant, have a look at these upcoming events, and make plans to have an even better time.
17 August 2022, 14:12 PM
Make money quicker by making rich friends
If you look at it from an economic and social perspective, these words have more to them than meets the eye. This is exactly what Raj Chetty, a Harvard economist has done. Making friends who come from money plays a very important role in determining your economic mobility. This basically refers to how quickly your income changes overtime. Chetty and his team wanted to find out if that is indeed the case and examined 72.2 million Facebook users between the age of 25-44 and formulated three determinants of measuring “social capital.”
17 August 2022, 14:08 PM
Good News: Forgetfulness maybe linked with higher intelligence
According to studies, our memory optimises decision-making by only remembering key points or valuable information. Forgetting the unimportant details is basically making space or optimising the memory for what matters. Researchers from the University of Toronto stated that new memories could overwrite old memories. They said, “It is important for the brain to forget irrelevant details. People can instead focus and optimise their memory to help them make intelligent decisions in the real world.”
17 August 2022, 14:04 PM
Airline Sleeper Coach in Economy Class?
Not one to compromise on service quality, and having received a number of accolades for the same attribute in recent times, Air New Zealand is now set to give its economy class passengers a smoother flying experience on mid and long-haul flights. Bunk beds for the economy class would mean a definitive goodbye to stiff necks and legs, armrest wars with the next passenger and guarantee generally happier clients. The concept of what they call the “Skynest” has been in conception for about five years now and is set to make its debut in 2024.
17 August 2022, 13:59 PM
Dubai Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed goes incognito in London tube
Dubai Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum who is pretty active on social media, has gone viral after photos of him travelling with his friend in the London tube (metro) goes viral.
16 August 2022, 16:57 PM
Biman will fly to China’s Guangzhou from August 18
Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the national flag carrier of Bangladesh, will operate flights on Dhaka-Guangzhou-Dhaka route from August 18, 2022.
16 August 2022, 10:02 AM
The health benefits of eating hilsa
Not only does it taste great, but hilsa is also a powerhouse of nutrition. A diet rich in hilsa fish has many health benefits and the fact that it’s the season for hilsa gives us another reason to include it regularly in our diet. A 100g of edible hilsa contains roughly 310 calories, 22g protein, and 19.5g fat. Polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA obtained from fish oil are reported to have potential in curing coronary heart disease, stroke, hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias, diabetes rheumatoid arthritis, brain development, cancer, and depression. It also supplies the daily requirements of 27 percent of vitamin C, 2 percent of the iron, and an incredible 204 percent of calcium.
16 August 2022, 09:47 AM
Road Safety: A new definition of luxury?
Five members of a family, including two children, were crushed to death by a girder of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), because the crane carrying the heavy load, toppled midway due to an ‘unexplained’ reason, which is still under the investigations.
16 August 2022, 05:43 AM
Your guide to get Korean Glass skin in 3 simple steps with the ZM Aqua Bomb Range
Zayn & Myza, a clean beauty personal care and cosmetics brand aiming to provide more than just beauty. It is the only brand in Bangladesh with a Clean Label Project Certification from the United States.
15 August 2022, 09:54 AM
The Great Divide that brought them together
While the Partition of 1947 is a chapter that historians are constantly bringing up, one question rarely explored is what does the Partition mean for the Millennials and Gen Zs? How much do our younger generations know of the significance of the Great Divide?
15 August 2022, 09:47 AM
Tips and tricks to survive load-shedding
Load-shedding and power cuts are now common phenomena in Bangladesh, and sadly, these are both unpredictable and can last for hours. And the current energy crisis engulfing the whole country has done nothing but increase our sufferings. No matter how painful load-shedding is, this regular occurrence has become an inseparable part of our lives—just as the agonising traffic jam and much-dreaded water logging. With some prudence and precautions, we can make the hours that we have to spend without eccentricity less distressing and perhaps, useful and productive. Below some pointers have been laid out for you to deal with load-shedding smartly.
15 August 2022, 09:42 AM