Thousands of Muslims across multiple districts in Bangladesh, including Chandpur, Faridpur, Dinajpur, Pirojpur, and Noakhali, observed Eid-ul-Fitr on Sunday—one day ahead of the national celebration—following the moon sighting practices of Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern nations. In Chandpur, at least 40 villages, including the Sadra Darbar Sharif in Hajiganj Upazila, marked the occasion. Pirzada Mufti Arif Chowdhury of Sadra ...

A total of Tk 33,852,900 was collected as toll from the Jamuna Bridge in the last 24 hours, up until Friday midnight. During this period, over 48,000 vehicles crossed the bridge, officials said. Ahsanul Kabir Pavel, Executive Engineer of the Jamuna Bridge site office, said 48,335 vehicles of various types passed through the bridge during this time, marking the highest ...

A man was hacked to death in a clash centering place for Eid Jamaat at Nabiganj upazila in Habiganj district on Friday night. The incident happened at around 9:30PM in front of West Para Jumma Mosque of Sadarghat village in the upazila. The deceased was identified as Abdul Kayyum, 50, son of late Abdul Majed, a resident of Sadarghat South ...

Gold prices have surged in Bangladesh once again, hitting a record high ahead of Eid. The price of 22-carat gold has increased by Tk 1,773 per bhori (11.664 grams), reaching Tk 157,872, the highest ever recorded in the country. The Bangladesh Jewellers Association (Bajus) issued a statement on Friday, 28 March, confirming the price hike. The new rates will take ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Friday invited top Chinese companies to invest in Bangladesh and make the country a manufacturing hub to export their products to the West and Asia. The Chief Adviser hosted four interactive meetings with more than 100 leading entrepreneurs and CEOs of China to share how Bangladesh is now open for business. He also described ...

National Citizen Party’s Chief Organiser (North) Sarjis Alam said, “Want to see Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus in power for five years.” He expressed this desire in a Facebook post on Saturday. “I will always have the desire to have a statesman like Prof Yunus as the prime minister of an elected government of Bangladesh for five years.” Meanwhile, netizens ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday urged students to imagine big things always aiming to change the world, reports BSS. “A university or educational institution is not only a place to learn what happen, but imagine,” he said while addressing a function at Peking University (PKU) in Beijing this morning. Noting imagination is the greatest power of the earth, ...

After the massive earthquakes in Myanmar and Thailand, now Bangladesh is at a risk of earthquakes as well. The Fire Service and Civil Defense said that the areas of Chittagong, Sylhet, Mymensingh and Dhaka are particularly at high risk. It has urged public and relevant stakeholders to take precautionary measures to reduce the impact of possible earthquakes, said a press ...

The death toll from a massive earthquake in Myanmar has passed 1,000, the ruling junta said on Saturday, with more than 2,000 injured, reports AFP. A statement from the junta’s information team said 1,002 people are known to have died in Friday’s shallow 7.7-magnitude quake, with 2,376 injured.

Britain’s government is hoping to reach a last-minute post-Brexit trade agreement with Washington to avoid — or at least mitigate — more tariffs set to be announced on Wednesday by US President Donald Trump. – Current position? – Britain has set out to strike a trade deal with the United States since departing the European Union at the start of ...