Moon Sighting Committee to sit tomorrow

Staff Correspondent: The National Moon Sighting Committee will sit in a meeting tomorrow (Sunday) to decide the date of Eid-ul-Fitr, the largest religious festival for the Muslims.

The meeting will be held at the Islamic Foundation’s Baitul Mukarram office in the capital at 7:15pm.

Religious Affairs Minister Principal Matiur Rahman, also chairman of the National Moon Sighting Committee, will preside over the meeting.

The committee will announce the date of Eid-ul-Fitr after reviewing information on the sighting of the Shawwal moon.

People have been requested to inform the committee over following phone and fax numbers if they see the Shawwal moon anywhere in Bangladesh sky.

The phone numbers are 9559493, 9559643, 9555947, 9556407 and 9558337 while the fax numbers are 9563397 and 9555951.

risingbd/DHAKA/June 24, 2017/Hasan/Amirul