Life Style

Dalda kept at a bakery for preparing various food items was found to contain a dead rat floating inside. The same Dalda was being used to produce a range of savoury snacks. Officials from the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection and the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority uncovered the scene during a raid at ‘Mousumi Food’ factory in Bongojpara on ...

Fashion brand Virgo has unveiled its highly anticipated Eid Collection 2026, aiming to add greater colour, warmth and timeless elegance to the celebrations of Eid. Each design in the collection beautifully captures the spirit of the festival while blending it with contemporary fashion trends. With premium-quality fabrics, elegant detailing, and modern silhouettes, the collection ensures the perfect balance between comfort ...

Every year on February 21, International Mother Language Day arrives with a quiet yet powerful reminder: language is not only how we speak, but also how we live, dress, and express who we are. Across Bangladesh and beyond, the day is observed with solemn respect, cultural pride, and creative expression. In recent years, one of the most vibrant ways people ...

Long before concealer became that tiny tube we panic-search for every morning, it lived a very glamorous life. It belonged under the harsh lights of Hollywood. Back in the 1910s to 1930s, the American film industry was still growing and experimenting. Movie sets were filled with extremely strong lights. These lights showed everything. Dark circles. Acne scars. Even the smallest ...

Ingredients: * Red Velvet cake crumb: 1 cup * Cream cheese : 1/2 cup * Yogurt : 1/4 cup * Sugar: 1/2 cup * Vanilla essence: few drops * Whipped cream: 1/2 cup Method: Beat whipped cream, sugar, curd, vanilla essence and cream cheese in a bowl and pour in to a piping bag. Now take some party shooter glasses ...

The restaurants I fall hardest for are the kind specialising in respite, that coddle and cocoon, that shield their diners from life’s gloom. Gloom could have been the weather forecast for the past couple of months, the days of grey half-light and shivering winds, the ceaseless rain and endless damp. All the wax has been pelted off my old jacket; ...

Copenhagen on the Thursday before Valentine’s Day is intoxicatingly romantic. That’s not hyperbole – you could breathe in and be drunk on it. The canals have frozen over, which only happens about once every 13 years, and couples are skating on them. You can see cosy bars from miles away because they’re strung with fairy lights – apparently not just ...

It is 10.30am, and Zahra is sitting in a business centre in Preston, attaching marshmallows to sticks of uncooked spaghetti. There are 30 interview candidates in the grey-carpeted room, split into groups of five, competing to build food towers. Already today they have had to solve anagrams, complete quizzes and rank the importance of various kitchen items. Just to be ...

At nine o’clock on Saturday morning, Norwich market is only just stirring: shutters are still down and the aisles are quiet. In the nearby Memorial Gardens, however, a large crowd has already gathered: the market’s pigeons are waiting to be fed. Jenny Coupland arrives on the scene a little later than her usual hour, with a backpack brimming with seed. ...

Bickering pleasantly over the menu in a Thai restaurant with my family recently, I realised I was unable to explain exactly what a gaeng massaman was, beyond the fact it was probably a safe bet for those concerned about the three chillies next to the green curry (a dish I first tackled for this column back in 2010). The gap ...