Eid holidays extended by a day

April 20 will also be part of the Eid holidays as the government decided to extend the holidays this year by a day through an executive order.

Cabinet Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain informed journalists about the development after the weekly cabinet meeting at the Secretariat today.

Before the executive order, Eid holidays were supposed to be from April 21-23. There will be a holiday on the occasion of Shab-e-Qadr on April 19, and April 20 was supposed to be a working day.

To extend the holiday, the government declared April 20 a holiday too and so the five-day Eid holiday will begin from April 19.

Holidays will be extended by one more day to include April 24 if there are 30 days of Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr is celebrated on April 23.