Residents near Ekhtiyarpur canal in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj can now finally breathe a sigh of relief after a factory in the vicinity was shut down for polluting the environment with industrial waste.

Hundreds of city dwellers are leaving the capital today for their homes even on the second day of Eid-ul-Fitr.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has invited the Indian state of Assam to reap benefits from Bangladesh's growth trajectory in view of the warmth, depth and diversity of Bangladesh-India relationship.

“I only had some shemai (sweet vermicelli) this morning. I don't have any new dress this Eid.”

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said their party leaders and activists have not been able to properly celebrate Eid in a decade as they have been subjected to killing, enforced disappearance and other repressive acts.

During the whole month of Ramadan, nearly 1,500 people received iftar here every day. ‘Mehmankhana’, as the organisers call it, aimed to provide hot meals to orphaned children, rickshaw-pullers, street vendors, and people from other marginalised sections of society who have become unemployed during lockdown. Special arrangements were also made for all these people on the day of Eid. Everyone was happy with such an arrangement on Eid day.

Another coronavirus positive Bangladeshi, who arrived from India through Benapole land port recently, has fled from the coronavirus ward of Jashore General Hospital.

A child was killed and three people were injured in two separate road accidents in Barguna’s Bamna upazila today.

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.

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

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".