Life & Religion

A cup of tea and bread: The diet of a rickshaw puller

TDS Desk I was running late for work when I stopped at a roadside tea stall — locally known as a tong dokan — for a quick snack. A cup Read More

Won’t negatively affect lives of ordinary people

Writ filed seeking ban on fireworks on 31st night

Banks to remain open after 5pm on Sunday

How the success of combo offers reflects a shift in middle-class purchasing culture

Tension mounts over Tabligh Jamaat’s factional groups

‘Welcome back’: Trump, Biden shake hands in White House

International Desk Outgoing President Joe Biden extended a gesture of graciousness to Donald Trump on his return to the White House on Wednesday, despite Trump’s previous denial of offering the

NBR withdraws airfare excise duty, VAT for hajj pilgrims

BBS, Dhaka: The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has withdrawn the excise duty on inbound and outbound airfare for hajj pilgrims, as well as the value-added tax (VAT) on three

Ulema threaten ousting govt, if Saad gets entry

Staff Reporter Leaders of a Tabligh Jamaat faction have threatened the interim government with potential unrest if Maulana Saad Kandhlawi from Delhi and his followers are permitted entry to Bangladesh

A ‘million-dollar’ wedding and the death of an unpaid RMG worker

TDS Desk: This is a tale of two realities. In one, a “million-dollar” wedding of Bangladeshi businessman Javed Opgenhaffen dazzled Paris last year; in the other, a female worker’s life