Muslims throughout the country are celebrating Eid-ul-Azha with the sacrifice of animals and the distribution of the meat among neighbours, family members, and the poor.
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Serving people with pain in heart: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said she is trying hard to serve people so that they could properly celebrate their festivals despite having all the pain of tragedies like August 15, 1975 and August 21, 2004 in heart.
The gender of law: What mapping of family laws reveals
Recent developments around the world give support to the idea of the #MeToo movement’s transformative potential. A postmodernist claim was that the feminist movement was essentialist and that no one expression of feminism can be applicable to women of different…
Eid-ul-Azha in Bangladesh Wednesday
Dhaka, Aug 21 – Commemorating Hazrat Ibrahim’s devotion to Allah as illustrated by his readiness to give up his beloved son Hazrat Ismail. Eid-ul-Adha, the second biggest religious festival of Muslims, will be celebrated in Bangladesh on Wednesday.
Hajj pilgrims end Mount Arafat trip: Observe Eid Tuesday
• Pilgrims spent the day praying and repenting and praying for personal strength in the future • On Tuesday, Muslims will observe the first day of Eid Al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, which marks the end of the Hajj. Jeddah:…
Two UNICEF awards for PM’s stance against early marriage
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today received two international awards given by the UNICEF in recognition to her government’s campaign against early marriage.
Muslim pilgrims gather at Mount Arafat for hajj’s pinnacle
Muslim pilgrims have gathered in the valley of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia for a day of prayer that marks the pinnacle of the annual hajj.
Main Eid congregation to be held at Nat’l Eidgah at 8 am
The main congregation of Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims, will be held at the National Eidgah on the High Court premises at 8:00 am on the Eid day.
Safe road protests: Actress Nawshaba denied bail
Rejecting her bail petition, a court here on Monday sent actress Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed to jail in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act.
More than two million Muslims begin hajj pilgrimage
More than two million Muslims from around the globe started the hajj pilgrimage on Sunday in Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s largest annual gatherings in a country undergoing unprecedented change.
Trains bring drinking water to flooded southern Indian state
Indian authorities are bringing drinking water by train to the flooded southern state of Kerala, where over 300 people have died and 300,000 are displaced in the worst flooding in a century.
Work out plan to build every village as township: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday stressed the need for working out future plans to address water supply, sewerage treatment and waste management issues for the country’s rural areas alongside the capital as the government wants to develop every village…
Woman held in Dhaka for ‘spreading rumour on FB’
Dhaka, Aug 17 – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Thursday night arrested a woman from Dhaka’s Dhanmondi area for spreading a rumour on social networking site Facebook to instigate the recent student movement for road safety.
People urged to sacrifice animals at designated spots
Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain on Thursday urged people to slaughter their sacrificial animals during Eid-ul-Azha in designated places to avoid environmental and health hazards.
Mangrove forests in Patuakhali depleting fast
Mangrove forest, which is known as ‘Green Wall’ that protected the people of the coastal district from the devastation of cyclone Sidr, is shrinking fast, thanks to unmindful felling of trees and lack of effective conservation efforts.
President, PM pay homage to Bangabandhu
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday led the nation in paying homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman marking the 43rd anniversary of his martyrdom.
606 fail to fly for S Arabia to perform hajj: Minister
A total of 606 people could not fly to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj this year for various reasons, including illness, death and negligence of hajj agencies, said Religious Affairs Minister Principal Motiur Rahman on Wednesday.
Dhaka 2nd least livable city in the world
Bangladesh capital Dhaka has ranked the second least liveable city in the world, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit annual global survey.
5 sentenced to death in Patuakhali war crimes
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Monday sentenced five men from Patuakhali district to death for their involvement in crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
Bill recognising Qawmi Madrasah’s Dawrae Hadith approved
The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of a bill framed to recognise Dawrae Hadith (Takmil) Certificate in Qawmi Madrasah with the status of post-graduate degrees of Islamic Studies and Arabic.
Eid-ul-Azha in Bangladesh on Aug 22
Dhaka, Aug 12 – Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of Muslims, will be celebrated across Bangladesh on August 22 as the new moon of the Al-Hizri month of Zilhad was sighted in the sky on Sunday.
International Youth Day: Listen to the youth – UN
Dhaka, Aug 11 – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the United Nations is strongly committed to listening to the voices of young people – and opening pathways for meaningful participation in decisions that affect them.
Eid-ul-Azha in Saudi Arabia Aug 21
Dhaka, Aug 12 – Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on August 21 (Tuesday) as the moon for the month of Zilhaj was sighted there on Saturday evening.
Nuclear Kids stage their first show in Hungary
Under Russia’s State Nuclear Energy Corporation – Rosatom’s International Children’s Creativity Project NucKids-2018, fifty six children from different countries including Bangladesh, Belarus, China, Croatia, Egypt, Hungary, India, Turkey, United Kingdom and Russia made their first public appearance with the musical…
‘Sexual violence applied to force ethnic minorities migrate’
Dhaka, Aug 11 – Sexual violence against ethnic minority women is used as one of the main tools to force the people living in hills to migrate elsewhere leaving their ancestral lands, say experts and human right activists.
Actress Nowshaba remanded again for 2 Days
Dhaka, 10 Aug – Actress Kazi Nowshaba Ahmed has been remanded for second spell of two days in a case filed under the Information, communication and Technology Act (ICT) on Friday.
‘Repression on BD indigenous people must stop’
Dhaka, Aug 10 – Speakers, on the occasion of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, at a programme here on Thursday, said incidents of repression of indigenous people must be stopped.
Helping nature: Inducing labor avoids cesarean for some moms
Move over, Mother Nature. First-time moms at low risk of complications were less likely to need a cesarean delivery if labor was induced at 39 weeks instead of waiting for it to start on its own, a big study found.…
World Day for Indigenous Peoples
By IPS World Desk Rome, Aug 7 2018 (IPS) – 370 million self-identified indigenous peoples are spread across the world, but continue to face discrimination and marginalization.
30 traditional crops to celebrate indigenous farming
From Danielle Nierenberg On August 9, Food Tank is celebrating the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples by highlighting indigenous peoples’ contributions to biodiversity.