Millions are expected to attend the annual Ijtema in Bangladesh -- considered the world's second biggest Muslim gathering ...

On the banks of the Turag River in Tongi, Gazipur, millions of people gathered at the Bishwa Ijtema ground to perform Jummah ...

Muslim devotees pray during the first phase of the three-day Biswa Ijtema, or the World Congregation of Muslims, at the banks of the Turag river in Tongi, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday ...

Students of Government Titumir College have blocked the railway track in Mohakhali, demanding university status for their ...

Bangladeshi police dismissed online rumours in December that a massive fire burned a neighbourhood near the site of the ...

The three-day annual event will end on Sunday when hundreds of thousands of Muslims are expected to join final prayers like ...

TONGI, Bangladesh (AP) — Tens of thousands of people ... held on the sandy banks of the Turag River in Tongi, just north of Dhaka, the capital. The event dates back to the 1950s when the ...

Tens of thousands of people have gathered on a riverbank near Bangladesh’s capital ... on the sandy banks of the Turag River in Tongi, just north of Dhaka, the capital. The event dates back ...

at the banks of the Turag river in Tongi, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. Credit: AP/Mahmud Hossain Opu A.K.M. Shahidur Rahman, director-general of the elite Rapid Action Battalion ...

Tens of thousands of people have gathered on a riverbank near Bangladesh’s capital to listen to sermons by Islamic scholars ...