Moon sighting committee sits to fix Eid date
The National Moon Sighting Committee sat in a meeting this evening to fix the date of Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of the Muslims.
The meeting started at the Islamic Foundation's Baitul Mukarram National Mosque office after Maghrib prayers for reviewing information on the sighting of the Shawal moon.
State Minister for Religious Affairs Faridul Haque Khan, also the president of the moon sighting committee, is presiding over the meeting.
People have been requested to inform the committee over the phone or fax if the Shawal moon is sighted anywhere in the Bangladesh sky.
The phone numbers are 02-223381725, 02-41050912, 02-41050916 and 02-41050917; and the fax numbers are 02-223383397 and 02-9555951.
People can also report to the district deputy commissioner and the upazila nirbahi officer concerned.
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