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The quintessential summer drink
The “sharbat” or “sherbet” is commonplace on everyone’s table during this time of stifling heat of the monsoon season. The sherbet acts as a cool drink composed of fruits and herbs serving as a stimulant and energiser at the same time.
Brewing history out of coffee
For many of us, coffee remains an embedded part of life; a go-to beverage at all times and an aid in running our day-to-day activities. Even during the month of Ramadan, many of us like a cup of hot brewed coffee to seal the day with some raw energy and bring order to our chaotic minds.
fyi / Keeping your family safe from illness
It has not been a pretty picture as the world steps into the second month of 2020 with a worldwide scare of the Coronavirus.
Gear up for gardening
Beginner or connoisseur, one unanimous truth about gardening is that it requires unwavering diligence to make our green friends thrive.
Insights into EBL’s Women Banking
For the modern Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs and working women, financial institutions are now offering more and more facilities to take their ventures to the next step, or offering banking services to secure their financial future.
EBL: Leading the way to women’s banking
Out of the numerous private banks that are functional in the county, Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) has made a name for itself over the years of its operation.
Fyi / Completing your first house
If you are the newlyweds that are about to kick off your new life together in a new abode, your first big-buys are not what you think it might be. Many assume that it would be furniture, but the fact of the matter is that the furniture you do end up with are either stuff you moved from your old home, or given to you by your family to start your new life.
fyi / Seal in that hydration
Winter is almost here, which can only mean one thing — time to lock in that moisture and keep your skin healthy, glowing and soft like a goose-feathered pillow.
Natural healers
“Every illness has a cure, and when the proper cure is applied to the disease, it ends it, Allah willing.”
How to survive the summer
Summer has been a drag so far as the heat waves keep sweeping over our tropical motherland. It might give you a headache realising that we are only halfway through summer.
All you need to know about gluten
Gluten is a general name for proteins found in wheat, rye, barley, etc. It helps foods maintain their shape, acting as a glue that holds them together.
Apps for your snaps
These days you do not have to fire up the old Photoshop machine on your laptop to edit your photos.
Carbon emissions and how to prevent them
It has not been long since we celebrated Pahela Falgun and happily welcome the spring in full bloom. But when putting a foot outside...
Detoxing made easy!
At long last the party season has come to an end! The endless stream of weddings, tea parties, barbecues and other sundry parties have finally...
Down to the last Tea
Tea drinkers, especially aficionados, have a certain class about them. What makes them even classier is when they know exactly what is in their drink.
Patchwork skin
Dryness is quite a common skin condition. However, when our facial skin starts flaking, it can be rather embarrassing and has us running for our foundations and concealers, which only make matters worse!
Emojis – the virtual language
If you are an active smartphone user, and the odds are that you are – unless you are the last person on earth using a vintage blackberry...
The Art of Doodling
Remember those days when the margins of your notebooks used to be filled with squiggles, hearts and clumsily drawn people? Newly painted ...