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Eid tomorrow if Shawal moon sighted today

Staff Correspondent
Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated across the country tomorrow if the Shawal moon is sighted today.
If the new moon is not sighted today, the Eid will be celebrated on Thursday ending the month-long fasting of Ramadan.
Muslims in the country and the rest of the world will seek divine blessings, peace, progress and prosperity in Eid congregations.
Islamic Foundation sources said the National Moon Sighting Committee will sit at 6:45pm today to scour the sky for the Shawal moon. It will also collect informa tion on moon sighting from the district-level moon-sighting committees and the meteorological department.
President lajuddin Ahmed and Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed in separate messages greeted the countrymen and the peoples of all Muslim nations on the occasion.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina have also felicitated the people on the occasion of the Eid.
Thousands of people have already left the capital to celebrate the Eid with their loved ones.
Launches, buses and trains leaving Dhaka for various destinations were less crowded in the last two days as people started leaving the capital since Thursday.
The Eid shoppers crowded into shopping centres and malls in the capital as well as elsewhere in the country to buy gifts, mainly clothing, for their near ones over the last few days.
The major Eid congregation will be held at the National Eidgah on the High Court premises at 8:30 on the Eid day.
The president, the CA and other advisers, government high-ups and political leaders will say Eid prayers at the National Eidgah.
Besides, Eid congregations will also be arranged at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque at 7:30,8:30,9:30,10:30, and 11:15am.
The country's biggest Eid con gregation with a likely turnout of around three lakh people will be held at Sholakhia Eidgah in Kishoreganj.
Necessary preparations have also been completed to hold the congregations at various places in the capital and other parts of the country.
The president will exchange Eid greetings with people from all walks of life at Bangabhaban at 9:30am and the CA at the Pradhan Upadesta Bhaban at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar at 11:00am.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will exchange Eid greetings at Ladies Club in the city's Eskatan Garden at 11:00am.
The national flag will be hoisted atop government and nongovernment offices on the occasion. Main city streets will also be decorated with flags imprinted with 'Eid Mubarak* in Bengali and Arabic.
Eid will also be celebrated in Bangladesh missions abroad.
Special diets will be served in hospitals, jails, government owned children and shelter homes, I socially handicapped and vaga
bond welfare centres and shelter homes for the destitute.
The Shishu Park will remain open to underprivileged children on the Eid day. Cultural functions, friendly football matches and Eid gatherings of children will also be held across the country.
Bangladesh Betar and Bangladesh Television as well as private television channels and radio stations will broadcast special programmes on this occasion. Newspapers have also brought out special supplements today.
Dhakabasi, a socio-cultural organisation, will bring out a colourful procession from the Shishu Academy premises at 3:00pm on the second day of the Eid.