With five-point demand, including allowing resumption of public transport, owners and workers of buses staged a sit-in programme in Tangail on Eid day.

It was the evening of May 14, 1971. Residents of Demra village were busy completing their daily works and traders of Demra haat (rural market) were closing their shops. Suddenly, Pakistani occupation forces cordoned off Demra village and opened fire on unarmed people.

President Abdul Hamid today urged all to try their best to stand by the helpless and disadvantaged people as Eid-ul-Fitr teaches us compassion and self-restraint.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh has urged people, who left for their villages to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with families, to return to Dhaka after the ongoing restrictions are lifted.

Aheda Bewa is a resident of Jatrapur char in the Brahmaputra river, under Kurigram Sadar upazila. She stays with her son Atoar Ali’s and his family. She occasionally works as a day labourer. For her, Eid-ul-Fitr morning -- which sees celebrations and festivities around the world and in Bangladesh -- was not joyous. She was depressed as she could not manage to buy new clothes for them.

Cropland is decreasing at an alarming rate in Natore as farmers have been digging pond on their agricultural land for fish farming to earn more profit.

Eid-ul-Fitr, the largest religious festival of Muslims, is being celebrated today with due fervor and enthusiasm after a month of fasting.

A local Awami League leader in Lama upazila of Bandarban has allegedly raped a young woman from the Mro community.

A court in Chattogram today placed Saidul Islam Shaku, accused of Mahmuda Khanam Mitu murder case filed with Panchlaish police station, on four-day remand.

A weeklong relief distribution of the Bangladesh Navy has brought the happiness of Eid among the people of the coastal areas, including in Mongla and the Sundarbans.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reissued her call for added cautions against Covid-19 during the Eid-ul-Fitr, to make sure that the holy festival does not cause fresh surge while the nation struggles to prevent the spread of the pandemic.

Bangladesh and China are friendly, close neighbours and they always treat each other with mutual respect and firmly support one another on issues bearing on respective core interests and major concerns, said Hua Chunying, spokesperson at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs today.

The government is likely to extend the ongoing restriction on movement and public transport for another week, considering the current Covid-19 pandemic situation.

BTV app has been launched and from now on people can download the app from Google Play Store for android mobile phones and Apple Store for iPhone users.

Bangabandhu bridge has achieved a new record in transport movement and collecting tolls from vehicles in 24 hours till 6:00am today.

A rights organisation today (Thursday) served a legal notice on the government, requesting it to give Tk 1 crore as compensation -- in three days -- to each of the families of the victims, who died after falling sick due to heat on two overcrowded ferries on Padma River in Madaripur on Wednesday.

President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today greeted the countrymen as well as Muslims across the world on the occasion of the holy Eid-ul-Fitr, one of the biggest religious festivals of the Muslim Ummah.

Northern region-bound holidaymakers are travelling without any hassle as very few private cars, microbuses, trucks and pick-up vans are plying the Dhaka-Tangail highway today -- a day before Eid.

More than 500 families in three unions under Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila are celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr today, in line with Saudi Arabia.

Body of a driver was recovered two days after he went missing when a microbus fell into the Padma river from the pontoon at Daulatdia ferry ghat in Rajbari.