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.

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

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.

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.

The New York Police Department celebrated Nessa for becoming the "first Bangladeshi female sergeant".

There is no traffic congestion on Dhaka-Paturia highway and at Paturia ferry ghat today -- a day before Eid-ul-Fitr.

A woman, who returned from India and was in institutional quarantine in Jashore, died at a local hospital last night.

After five people died due to heat on an overcrowded ferry at Banglabazar, Border Guard Bangladesh and police have taken a strict stance to maintain discipline at Munshiganj’s Shimulia ferry terminal.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation tomorrow on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr which will be celebrated on Friday across the nation.