Bata is gearing up to bring the second edition of the Bata Fashion Weekend to Milan. This year, the whole venue will revolve around the concept “The Sound of Style”, featuring an engaging combination of music, design and craftsmanship.

C.P. customers can now enjoy this Baishakh with the latest campaign from C.P. Bangladesh Co. Ltd. The campaign gives customers the chance to win a smartphone everyday for the purchase of products of at least Tk 200.

Uber, the world's largest on-demand ridesharing company, announced the launch of its services in Chattogram on April 12, 2018, with three products - UberX, HIRE and MOTO. Now Uber has expanded its services to the second city in Bangladesh.

Various beauty packages are being offered at Akankhas Galmour World at special discounts. They are also offering free haircuts with these packages matching the shape of your face. The packages offer facial, pedicure-manicure, skin polish etc.

Considering the huge traffic jam in Dhaka city, midnight buffets can be the best time for Dhaka dwellers to enjoy occasions with friends and family. Summerfields in Hotel Sarina is now offering 80 plus items including Thai, Indian, Continental and Chinese cuisines that guests can enjoy for Tk 1599 per person. The buffet starts from 11:30PM and ends at 3:30AM.

As the summer heat draws ever closer, Kay Kraft is all set with their lineup of comfortable wears. Clean designs and optimized colour use with patterns and cuts highlighting utmost comfort is the focus this time. Voile, cotton, linen are the fabrics used this time while the colours fall in off-white, white, green, blue etc. with print, embroidery and tie-dye.

We all know this occurs because none of us have the time today to sit down and organise, especially given our busy schedules. Yet, there are those dull moments when we have nothing to do on our hands, and most of us are guilty of having a ton of stuff in our house that we have not had any use in 10 years.

Shab-e-barat is approaching and your neighbourhood grocery stores are already stocked up with ghee and spices. The fish and bhortas of the last week are well behind, and rich sweet and savoury recipes are being dusted out.

One of the newest brands in the fashion scene, Sailor celebrated their third year in innovative and eye-catching wears on April 6, 2018 at their newest Mirpur-2 flagship outlet in Dhaka.

When comparing dinner tables of a Bengali and a Westerner, it's hard to understand the importance of bread in our diet as ours mostly consists of rice. That's not to say that bread has no place here, as we have our own way, time and type of breads to consume, making it very much a part of Bengali diet and cuisine. Bread's significance does not merely lie in its many nutritional properties. Its history and significance in culture and different religions is enough to fill tomes in museums across the globe.

A prominent member of the iconic British band Beatles, George Harrison, was one of the main coordinators of the Concert for Bangladesh, held at Madison Square Garden, New York, on 1 August 1971 to raise international awareness and funds for Bangladesh's liberation war. Harrison ended the concert with the song 'Bangladesh, Bangladesh'. The simplicity of the lyrics takes on a new and powerful force.

Fast forward to today, and you will see that love for traditional Bengali sweets is still going strong. Unfortunately, the only thing that seems to have changed is that we now have literally no time to dabble into the wizardry of sweet-making as the city life has its own set rules, which mostly do not include making desserts at home.

As far as cleaning tech devices, screens in any form and size pose the biggest challenge. The obnoxious trend of wiping off mobile screens with toothpaste was here for a while, but it is simply not recommended.

Ask any med student, and they will all agree that the knee is probably the most complex joint in the body. As a matter of fact most of the people who take up my course come with problems related to weak knees, or injury. Others suffer back aches that originate from their knees, although they do not even realise it.

Every week, in some magazine or the other, there are enthusiastic pieces on some new miracle diet promising to transform us into our dream figures in a matter of weeks, or days even! There are dramatic pictures of 'before and after' and promises of a gorgeous new shape if we eat only bananas, or green peas, or whatever the latest studies claim will have said magical results.

Dhaka’s popular Drik Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of postage stamps, currency and match boxes. This exhibition will run through 26 -28 April, 2018 from 3pm to 8pm.

A massive rhino rustled through the tall elephant grass and charged at us. Ears cocked, nostrils flared wide open and tail held high, the animal seemed to take up the entirety of the unique Chitwan landscape. Its distinctive one horn cut through the thick humid air of the Terai, its muscles rippled in tension under the thick armour like skin.

Hey prude, be a little rad. Take a bad song, and play it louder.

Ever heard of Pensacola or Perdido Key? Whether you know of it or not, reading this travelogue will certainly have you trying to experience everything I have at the southern tip of the United States of America, and maybe do some exploration of your own.

Imagine a face, and the nose is probably its most prominent feature. The dimensions of the nose are often a big part of how you look. Its myriad shapes also reveal our race and ethnicity.