The High Court directed government authorities to immediately evict 30 illegal structures from the banks of the Turag river ...

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

Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan, adviser to the Ministry of Local Government, said, "If we imagine Dhaka city as the human body, the canals are the veins and arteries. With collective efforts, we must ...

The Munajat began at 12:09pm and lasted 18 minutes, drawing millions of devotees from Bangladesh and over 50 other countries ...

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 ...

Three years ago, when the National River Conservation Commission revealed a mind boggling number of 65,127 grabbers feasting ...

The home ministry has allowed followers of Maulana Saad Kandhalvi to hold the second phase of Biswa Ijtema on the Turag River bank at Gazipur’s Tongi on condition that the group will not ...

Muslim devotees gathered for the noon prayers on Friday during the Bishwa Ijtema, held on the outskirts of Dhaka. The event, ...

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims from home and abroad offered Jummah prayers on the bank of the Turag River in Tongi, Gazipur, on Friday, the first day of the first phase of the Bishwa Ijtema.

The second phase of the Biswa Ijtema has ended with thousands of people participating in the Akheri Munajat, or special prayer service, on the banks of the Turag River in Gazipur’s Tongi to wrap ...

The third phase will be held Feb. 14-16. Biswa Ijtema is one of the largest gatherings of Muslim devotees, held on the sandy banks of the Turag River in Tongi, just north of Dhaka, the capital.