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Eid-ul-Azha: Moon Sighting Committee to meet Sunday
A meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee will be held on Sunday to fix the date of Eid-ul-Azha.
Dhaka, July 10 : A meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee will be held on Sunday to fix the date of Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of Muslims.
The meeting will be held in the office of the Islamic Foundation at Baitul Mukarram at 7:15pm with State Minister for Religious Affairs Mohammad Faridul Haque Khan in the chair, said an Islamic Foundation media release on Saturday.
The committee will announce the date of Eid-ul-Azha after reviewing information about the sighting of Zilhaj moon.
People have been requested to inform the committee over the following phone and fax numbers if they see the Zilhaj moon anywhere in Bangladesh sky.
The telephone numbers are: 9559493, 9555947, 9556407 and 9558337, while the fax numbers are 9563397 and 9555951, reports UNB.