Acclaimed both locally and globally, the docudrama titled "Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale", will be rescreened on BTV and BTV World at 3:30 pm on her Homecoming Day on May 17.

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.”

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.

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.

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.