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Decorate your home for Eid ul Fitr

Eid ul Fitr is one of the main festivals for Bangladeshis. Though this is a Muslim festival in Bangladesh it has become everyone’s celebration. Every festival brings some new color, a ray of new hope and enjoyment to everyone’s life. Eid ul Fitr is no different. After month of fasting, patience and sacrifice, Eid al-Fitr is one that everyone will be celebrating, but how do you decorate your house for this occasion? eid-home-decoration-ideasEid ul Fitr is celebrated mainly at home. People visit each other’s home, meet ...

Tackling rush hour survival in Ramadan

As millions of Muslims in Bangladesh are fasting, daily life and activities change dramatically. Dhaka roads bustle with cars especially during pre-Iftar hours, as people rush to drive back home. With all the hustle and bustle, Carmudi, the leading online car classifieds in Bangladesh, shares tips on how to stay safe on the road during this festive month. Buckle up! Given the flexibility of work hours during Ramadan, it is ideal to leave work early to avoid traffic. Plan a time buffer in case of delays and figure out the best and fastest route to take. Planning the time and distance effectively will truly help you in the long run in avoiding traffic

Push to save cows starves Bangladesh of beef

Some 30,000 Indian soldiers guarding the border with Bangladesh have a new mandate under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government this year - stop cattle from crossing illegally into the Muslim-majority neighbor. Roughly every other night, troops armed with bamboo sticks and [caption id="attachment_17629" align="alignleft" width="300"]An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier guards captured cattle from the unfenced India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal, India, June 20, 2015. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) so...

Orange: The new black in Bangladesh?

Aristotle once said: “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” Ernst Coppejans’ photo series “Orange Is the New Black” explores this very idea. The photo series consists of portraits of men in Bangladesh who have dyed the hair on their heads or faces using the orange-red color produced by the flowering henna plant. hair colourCoppejans did not travel in search of these men, however. “I was shooting a new series in Bangladesh and I (had) to travel a lot,” Coppejans said. ...

Carmudi analyzes global car color preferences

The color of your car can actually increase or reduce your risk of being involved in a car accident. Carmudi, the easiest means to sell or buy your car online, has analyzed data based on more than 13 million visits to the company’s car classifieds website over the last three months. Silver and grey is most searched color of car in Latin America (25%) and Africa (33%), whereas white is the preferred choice in the Middle East (38%) and Asia (31%). Around 2.8 million of Carmudi visitors searched for white cars in the last three months. Car buyers in Myanmar are most fanatical about white cars, with 42% searching for the color. To explain this

Humans have more than 5 senses

It turns out, there are at least nine senses and most researchers think there are more like twenty-one or so, according to the website todayifoundout.com. Just for reference, the commonly held definition of a “sense” is “any system that consists of a group of sensory cell types that respond to a specific physical phenomenon and that corresponds to a particular group of regions within the brain where the signals are received and interpreted. The commonly held human senses are as follows: Sight: This technically is two senses given the two distinct types of receptors present, one for color (cones) and one for brightness (rods).
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