Life & Religion

Won’t negatively affect lives of ordinary people

Items with minimal inflation weight see VAT hikes Govt initiated the move to bridge the revenue gap No impact on essential services like education, health, and IT TDS Desk The Read More

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

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BBS, Dhaka: The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has withdrawn the excise duty on inbound and outbound airfare for hajj pilgrims, as well as the value-added tax (VAT) on three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

Mezban: A tradition of Ctg

Mezban, or Mezzan as said in Chittagong, isn’t just simply about the food TDS Desk Sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with people I’d never met, I felt that old familiar warmth fill me—the