Tens of thousands of Muslims attend annual Biswa Ijtema event in Bangladesh
Biswa Ijtema is one of the largest gatherings of Muslim devotees, held on the sandy banks of the Turag River in Tongi, just ...
Many visit religious gathering near Dhaka to attend sermons by Islamic scholars
The three-day annual event will end on Sunday when hundreds of thousands of Muslims are expected to join final prayers like ...
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Bangladesh must move from ‘fast fashion’ to ‘defashion’ to improve human & ecological wellbeing (commentary)
In pre-colonial Bengal, Dhaka was the fashion capital, a city known globally for its rich heritage of luxury muslin fabric and its handloom industry. During the colonial period, the British ...
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Tens of thousands of Muslims attend annual Biswa Ijtema event in Bangladesh
Tens of thousands of people gathered on a riverbank near Bangladesh’s capital on Friday to listen to sermons by Islamic scholars ... just north of Dhaka, the capital. The event dates back ...