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Celebrate with Pride

Known for its comfortable fabrics, trendy prints and unquestionable quality, Pride's Boishakh campaign stays true to its identity.
Featuring ethnic prints on soft cotton, contemporary embroideries on endi-silk and modern motifs on taant saris, Pride's Boishakh campaign represents the mystical and enigmatic Bengali culture with their range of shalwar kameez sets and saris -- a blend of the old with the new.
Pride recently introduced their first panjabi line, and this Boishakh, they experimented with exciting fabrics contrasted with trendy detailing -- perfect for the discerning men of Bangladesh.  
Check out the nearest Pride showroom, and facebook.com/PrideLimitedBangladesh for Pride's Boishakh campaign.

Pay through bKash

BKASH Limited, a leading mobile financial service provider in the country, has launched a campaign offering 20 per cent cash back to its customers if they make payment through bKash while purchasing goods from Deshi Dosh outlets. The campaign has been launched to celebrate the Bangla New Year 1421 and will run till 13 May, 2014.
Deshi Dosh is an outlet of 10 reputed local handicraft and boutique shops with outlets in Bashundhara City, Gulshan Link Road and Afmi Plaza in Chittagong. Apart from sending and receiving money, bKash is now being widely used for payment at different shops, restaurants and hotels across the country.
Once the payment is made through bKash, the customer will receive the cash back amount in his bKash account within next working day.
The customer will get a notification SMS upon receiving the cash back amount in his account. There will be no service charge for bKash payment.

Discount in Apan Jewellers

Apan Jewellers is displaying various patterned and modern designs of all kinds of jewellery on the occasion of Pohela Boishakh. Customers will get a discount of 30 per cent on various kinds of jewellery such as necklaces, finger rings, earrings, nose pins platinum rings, diamond lockets, etc. The offer has started from 7 April and will run till 30 April. For more information, call 9552904 or 01942948387.

Nana's Pohela Boishakh

NANA, a restaurant in Old Dhaka, has prepared a mouth-watering feast for Pohela Boishakh. The special day calls for a special menu: pantha bhaat, shorshey illish, illish bhaja, hilsa fry, steamed hilsa, illish khichuri, bhorta and bhaji and others are available at Nana.
The foods will be available till 11pm. Other than that, the regular items of the restaurant will also be available.
The eatery is located in 3 Wise Ghat, Islampur, Patuatuli, Dhaka. For more information call 01190162222 or 01190152222. 

New Zealand Natural

New Zealand Natural is one of the biggest ice cream chains in the world based in New Zealand. New Zealand Natural operates in more than 32 countries with over 1000 outlets worldwide. Made in New Zealand with the freshest, finest quality ingredients, its ice cream is so delicious that it's a pure taste adventure.
Every year without fail, New Zealand Natural wins Gold Awards at the New Zealand Ice Cream Manufacturers Association Annual Awards. The brand -- boasting an extensive range of premium all-natural ice creams, sorbets and frozen yoghurts -- is also expanding rapidly into the world's leading supermarkets, hotels, restaurants and catering channels.
Panoply Foods Ltd. is the master franchisee of New Zealand Natural in Bangladesh. The company is owned by Kaiser Mohd. Rashid (managing director), S. M. Shafiul Saleh (chairman), Naz Rahman (director), Hasan Mohd Shahriar (director).  
All the ice creams are imported from New Zealand and all the products are 'halal'. New Zealand Natural provides the biggest scoop in town. Ice creams are mainly made with dairy products and New Zealand is known as the world's best in this category. And the ice creams are made here with the freshest and purest quality dairy products from New Zealand.
The ice cream parlour sells single scoops in cups and cones. Price for a single scoop in cup is Tk.200 and an additional Tk.50 is required for the cone. The place also serves different shakes and ice drinks like thickshake, milkshake, smoothies, chillos, with a price range of about Tk.300 to Tk.650.
You can also try out their sundae, which includes three scoops of ice creams with whipped cream and toppings and comes with a price tag of Tk.650. It also has sandwiches, which are made on order. Very soon the eatery will introduce waffles, juices and brownies.
Its first flagship outlet is located in House # 100 (1st floor), Block C, Road # 11, Banani. The eatery has a space area of 1800 square feet and a comfortable seating capacity of 60 people. Interior is smart and elegant. The outlet is open from 10am to 1am.

Megh's Boishakh wardrobe

FASHION house Megh has in its shelves a special collection of clothes for Boishakh. The traditional red-and-white colour combination is dominant, along other colours. The designs are themed on Bangladeshi folk heritage. The attires include short shalwar kameez sets, fatuas, panjabis, tee shirts, etc. The stores also have a collection for children. Megh's showrooms are located in Aziz Supermarket, Shahbagh, Metro Shopping Mall, Dhanmondi and in Mirpur 10 (old). 

Rang's Boishakh attires

RANG, being a fashion brand that focuses on our country's culture and heritage, goes big on the event of Bengali New Year. And this year too, it has released its exclusive Boishakhi collection to help people celebrate the New Year.
This time around, Rang has borrowed its themes, motifs and designs from 'lungi' -- a 'deshi' attire worn by men of our country since time immemorial -- to create saris, shalwar kameez sets, kurtas, tee shirts, kotis, caps, bag, jewellery, etc. Shuti, a very comfortable fabric, has been the choice of fabric in this hot weather.
For the festive event, colours like red, black, yellow, blue, violet, magenta, white, etc have been used. The attires feature works of block-spray, screen print, embroidery, cut-work, karchupi, batik, etc.       
The special display started from 25 March and will end on 14 April, 2014.
Shraddha, a concern of Rang, is a shop exclusively customised for the tastes of senior citizens.
With the aforementioned lungi motifs and floral and geometric designs, Shraddha has designed  attires and accessories to cater to this age group. Shuti is the preferred fabric, but the colours include off-white, grey and other undertone colours. However, the bright colours are also there. Prices are also reasonable.     
Shraddha is located in 3rd floor, Orchard Point, Road # 7, Dhanmondi. For more info, call 9674859.

Easter egg stuffing party

The biggest Easter egg hunt is set to take over the capital at the Westin Dhaka.
The hotel is proud to announce that a grand Easter Egg Hunt will be held on Friday, 18 April, 2014 in its Grand Ballroom. This fun-filled event will provide as much joy and laughs for the adults as it will for the children and visitors who will witness this truly magical fest.
Children up to 15 years of age can begin lining up from 9:30am. The hunt will begin promptly at 10am, when the Easter bunny will give the official starting signal. The event will continue until 1pm. Children with special needs are also encouraged to join in the fun.
Attending kids are scheduled to hunt down the strategically placed giant eggs, which have been designed exclusively. Children who come up empty handed will still be able to enjoy special treats at the designated area.
The festival also includes funfair rides, magic show, local food, spot prizes, bouncy castle, egg painting, face painting and much more.
Tickets are priced at Tk.1600 net per person. For more information please call 9891988 or follow Westin Dhaka on facebook.

Nitya Upahar's Boishakh exhibition

To welcome the New Year, Nitya Upahar has organised a clothing and photography exhibition. The event, which is taking place at Gallery Nitya Upahar (4th floor, Aziz Cooperative Super Market, Shahbagh), started on 11 April and will run till 10 May, 2014. The exhibition was inaugurated by film director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki.
The exhibition will display saris and tee shirts for the summer season. The tees feature photographs taken by 14 amateurs and professionals, along with designs done by young designers.  

A five star New Year's treat

Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka is celebrating Bengali New Year 1421 from 12 April to 14 April with Bangladeshi Traditional Mela at its lobby, which is ornamented with a number of colourful stalls offering Bangladeshi handicrafts, clothes, souvenirs and snacks.
The biggest attraction for this year is a mammoth 200 kilogram grouper fish from the deep sea of Bay of Bengal. The seven feet long fish has been put on display for all the guests.
Like every year, the hotel's most popular restaurant, Café Bazar, is offering an array of traditional Boishakhi mouth-watering food from different cuisines of Bangladesh, in the Bengali Food Festival that is taking place from 12 April to 14 April.
There will also be the all-time favourite Bengali style 'ilish bhaja' and 'shutki', along with a wide plethora of 'bhorta' and chutney for your cravings.
The salad bar will offer mixed vegetable sticks, cucumber and yoghurt salad, tomato and spring onion salad, eggplant salad, mixed Bengali salad, spicy pumpkin salad, etc.
The soup corner will present several assorted soups. The range of special desserts will feature assorted fresh fruit platter, 'pitha', 'shemai', 'firni', 'rashmalai', sweet yoghurt, 'gur paesh' and a lot more will be there for sweet lovers.