Eid-ul-Azha celebrated
The holy Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of the Muslims, has been celebrated across the country amid religious fervour and enthusiasm across the country on Monday.
The main Eid congregation in the capital was held at the National Eidgah at 8:30am.
Largest congregation held on Sholakia Eidgah
As per tradition, the largest Eid-ul-Azha congregation of the country was held on the historic Sholakia Eidgah in Kishoreganj on Monday.
Over 350,000 devotees offered the prayers amid stringent security measures.
PM: Ongoing peace brightens Bangladesh's image
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said ongoing peace and progress during the tenure of the present government has brightened the image of Bangladesh and Bangalee nation in the global arena.
The premier made the statement after exchanging Eid greetings with party leaders and workers and a cross section of people at her official residence Gonobhabn on Monday morning.
Khaleda: Movement at right time
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said her party will wage movement against government at appropriate time.
She made the statement after exchanging Eid greetings with diplomats and renowned personalities at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre on Monday morning.
'India alerts Bangladesh about terror strikes'
India has alerted Bangladesh regarding bombs being assembled in a house in West Bengal were meant for terror strikes in Bangladesh.
The Hindustan Times reported that top Indian intelligence officials have alerted the National Security Intelligence (NSI) and Director General of Forces Intelligence in Dhaka.
Nobel Prize honours brain cell research
John O'Keefe, May-Britt and Edvard Moser have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on cells that form a positioning system in the brain.
According to a report by CNN, the research helps to understand better how people orient themselves and how it could be useful in Alzheimer's research, because of the part of the brain those cells lie in -- the hippocampus.
Son kills mother in Comilla
A person has chopped his mother to death at Gujra village under Chouddogram upazila of the district.
The deceased is Rokeya Begum, 42, wife of Abdul Malek.
‘Eid is being celebrated amid absence of democracy’
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said Eid-ul-Azha is being celebrated in the country amid absence of democracy.
Mirza Fakhrul made the comment while talking to journalists after offering the Eid prayer at Thakurgaon Government High School in Kalibari of Thakurgaon town on Monday morning.
Brazil's Rousseff to face rival Neves in election runoff
Brazil's leftist President Dilma Rousseff has placed first in Sunday's election but did not get enough votes to avoid a runoff and will face pro-business rival Aecio Neves, who made a dramatic late surge to finish a strong second.
After Brazil's most volatile campaign in decades, which saw one candidate die in a plane crash and another soar into first place only to collapse at the end, the result ended up being what was expected a year ago - a showdown between two arch-rival parties that have governed the country for the last 20 years.
Muggers stab 3 ambulance passengers in Feni
Muggers have stabbed three ambulance passengers’ and looted money, other valuables on Dhaka-Chittagong highway near Muhuriganj area of Feni.
The identity of the victims could not be known immediately.
At least one dead as typhoon lashes Japan
A typhoon lashed Japan with torrential rain on Monday after killing at least one person, forcing the cancellation of flights and prompting warnings to more than 200,000 people to evacuate their homes before heading out to sea.
Three US servicemen were swept away by high waves lashing the southwestern island of Okinawa on Sunday as Typhoon Phanfone approached. One was found dead and two were missing. A surfer was swept out to sea.
