National Moon Sighting Committee meets tomorrow
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DHAKA, Mar 13, 2021 (BSS) – The National Moon Sighting Committee will hold a meeting tomorrow to fix the date of holy Shab-e-Barat of Hijri 1442 after reviewing reports on the appearance of the moon of Shaban month.
The meeting will be held at Islamic Foundation conference room in Baitul Mukarram National Mosque at 6.00 pm.
State Minister for Religious Affairs Md Faridul Haque Khan will preside over the meeting, an official release said here today.
People are requested to inform the committee about moon sighting over the following telephone numbers – 9559493, 9555947, 9556407 and 9558337 – or through fax numbers – 9563397 and 9555951.
Faridul distributes postal cash cards among poor in Jamalpur
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JAMALPUR, March 12, 2021 (BSS) – State Minister for Religious Affairs Md Faridul Haque Khan, MP, today distributed postal cash cards among the beneficiaries of the Income Support Program for the Poorest project at Baliadah High School ground in Jamalpur.
Under this project, a total of 25,832 people will get financial assistance. Of them, there are 13,737 pregnant mothers and children of extremely poor families in Islampur Upazila and 12,095 beneficiaries and their children in Chinaduli Union.
The project is being implemented in 444 unions of 43 upazilas of seven districts of Rangpur and Mymensingh divisions since 2016.
The scheme provides cash assistance to mothers of extremely poor families and children under the age of five on the condition of receiving health care for their physical and mental development.
Govt is determined to maintain communal harmony in country: Faridul
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DHAKA, Dec 23, 2020 (BSS) – State Minister for Religious Affairs Md Faridul Haque Khan today said that the government is determined to maintain communal harmony in the country at any cost.
“Communal harmony is the (most) desired matter in the current world. As such, the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is determined to maintain communal harmony in the country at any cost,” he said.
The state minister made the remarks while addressing an inter-religion workshop at Gopalganj district virtually in the morning, said a press release here.
The Religious Harmony and Awareness Enhancement Project of the Religious Affairs Ministry organized the workshop.
Meet With Home Boss: Hefajat sticks to its stance on sculpture
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal. File photo
Calling sculptures anti-Islamic, Qawmi madrasa-based clerics, many of whom are Hefajat leaders, have proposed that the government construct minarets instead of sculptures of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Led by Mahmudul Hasan, chairman of madrasa education board (Befaq), a 12-member delegation came up with the proposal at a meeting with Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan at his residence in the capital on Monday night.
Coming out of the hour-long meeting, Hefajat-e Islam Nayeb-e-Amir Ataullah Hafezzi termed it fruitful. He claimed that the minister did not oppose their argument against the establishment of sculptures or idols.