The capital has worn a desolate look since Thursday evening as about half of its 2 billion inhabitants have left the mega city to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with their near and dear ones. The Eid exodus gained the highest momentum from...
Holy Eid-ul-Fitr is being observed in some Middle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia, on Friday as the new crescent moon of Shawal was sighted there on Thursday evening. A reputed Middle Eastern newspaper reported on Friday that the people of...
Holy Eid-ul-Fitr was celebrated in 40 villages of Chandpur district on Friday. Holy Eid-ul-Fitr is being observed in the rest of the country on Saturday. Several thousand people of 40 villages in Hajiganj, Faridganj, Matlab North, Kochua and Shahrasti upazilas...
Trucks, covered-vans and trailers have been seen plying on two highways at Gazipur despite a government ban on goods carriers on highways during the Eid rush of vehicles carrying home-bound vacationers. Police officials on duty in various sections of the...
A female college student has been slaughtered in Birganj upazila in Dinajpur district. Police said the assailants thrashed the face and head of Rumana Akter, 19, daughter of Abdul Malek of Shithlai village. The incident happened around 8:30pm on Thursday...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son and also ICT advisor Sajeeb Wajed Joy, in a status on his official facebook page, said the killers of minor boy Rajan should get ‘maximum’ punishment. He wrote, ‘Our police have arrested all of the...
At least ten people including a journalist and the OC of Chokoria Police Station were injured in a clash between police and Sramik League-Jubo League activists at Chiringa Bus Station in Chokoria municipality in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday. Police and...
India has disbursed the entire $200 million grant it had pledged for the Padma Bridge project under a $1 billion loan agreement signed with Bangladesh. An Economic Relations Division official told bdnews24.com that the country had disbursed $50 million in...
Sholakia Eidgah (field) in Kishorganj district is all set to host the country’s largest Eid Jamaat (congregation). Eid-ul-Fitr, the greatest festival of Muslims, will be celebrated in Bangladesh on Saturday or Sunday. The Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Kirshoreganj district and...
British Prime Minister David Cameron has congratulated Muslims in the United Kingdom and elsewhere on Holy Eid-ul-Fitr. He sent his Eid message on Thursday, wishing a happy and peaceful Eid-ul-Fitr for Muslims in Britain and around the world. In the...
One of South Korea's most controversial mergers has been given approval by shareholders of the construction company Samsung C&T. The deal will see the firm taken over by holding company Cheil Industries, another part of the Samsung group. The merger...
A gunman has killed four US Marines and injured several others at two US Navy buildings in Chattanooga, Tennessee. A local district lawyer said the shootings were being investigated as an "act of domestic terrorism". The gunman, who was shot...
Asian markets edged slightly higher on Friday morning, taking the lead from good overnight results on Wall Street. The Nasdaq closed at a record high while the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 also ended in positive territory. Japan's Nikkei...
Locals have nabbed Ali Haider, the last of the four accused of brutally beating 13-year-old Samiul Alam Rajon to death in Sylhet Sadar Upazila, and handed him over to the police. Jalalabad police OC Akhter Hossain told bdnews24.com he was...
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Two new vessels built by Western Marine Shipyard Limited have been added in the fleet of BIWTC in the month of Ramadhan for the convenience of home going passengers during the Eid-ul-Fitr vacation. One of them is a 750-passenger ship...
Muslims across the country joined Juma'tul Wida, the last Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan, with due with religious zeal and reverence. Millions of fasting people joined the Juma'tul Wida at mosques seeking forgiveness from the Almighty Allah...
Weather experts have said light to moderate might occur anywhere in the country Saturday. "There will be possibility of rain to occur tomorrow (Saturday) across the country but southern parts of the country will experience moderate to heavy rainfall," Weather...
A man gouged out the eyes of his wife following an altercation over Eid shopping at Kalma village in Savar upazila in the outskirts of the capital on Friday. Locals said Robiul Islam, 30, a resident of area, gouged out...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) handed over two members of Myanmar army, who were rescued near the Bangladesh-Myanmar-India border in Bandarban district on Tuesday, to Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) on Friday. BGB handed over the soldiers to BGP in a...
The Holy Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated in the country on Saturday as the Shawwal moon was sighted in Bangladesh sky on Friday. The National Moon Sighting Committee took the decision at a meeting at the Islamic Foundation’s Baitul Mukarram office...
Muslims across Bangladesh joined Juma’tul Wida, the last Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan, with due religious zeal and reverence. Millions of fasting people joined the Juma’tul Wida at mosques seeking forgiveness from the Almighty Allah and divine...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has handed over a cheque of Fixed Deposit worth Tk2 million to the family of late journalist Saiful Islam Talukder. Saiful’s wife Tahera Islam, two daughters and a son received the cheque from the prime minister...
President Md Abdul Hamid Advocate and Prime minister Sheikh Hasina have greeted the Muslims in Bangladesh and all over the world on the occasion of Holy Eid-ul-Fitr, to be celebrated across the country on Saturday. President Abdul Hamid and Prime...
An awesome 25-km tailback was created on Dhaka-Tangail highway from Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur on Friday, inflicting immeasurable sufferings on homebound people ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. Witnesses said the tailback was created on the road from Chandra intersection in Kaliakoir uapzila...
Rain and thundershowers are expected in most places of Bangladesh during the Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations on Saturday and the following two days. Officials at the Met Office at Agargaon in Dhaka said that light to moderate rain or thundershowers may occur...
Five people, including two children, have been killed and 25 others injured in a road accident on the western side of Bangabandhu (Jamuna) Bridge link road in Kamarkhand upazila of Sirajganj district on Friday. Four of the five deceased were...
Vowing to eradicate corruption from her ministry, State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim on Thursday said there is no way for her ministry to favour corrupt people. The junior minister came up with the remark while talking to...
Newly appointed Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Masato Watanabe presented his credentials to President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Thursday. Welcoming the new envoy, the President urged the Japanese investors to invest in Bangladesh saying that a special economic zone has...
At least five civilians were killed as India and Pakistan exchanged fire in the disputed Kashmir region, days after a meeting between leaders of the two countries in Russia. Pakistan accused India of unprovoked firing in which four civilians died...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday greeted all on the occasion of Holy Eid-ul-Fitr and wished them Eid Mubarak. Meanwhile, the BNP chief will exchange greetings with eminent citizens and foreign diplomats at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) on Eid...
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