Moon sighting committee to meet tomorrow

A meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee will be held tomorrow evening to fix the date of Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of Muslims.

The meeting will be held at the Islamic Foundation's Baitul Mukarram office at 7:15pm with State Minister for Religious Affairs Alhaj Advocate Sheikh Md Abdullah in the chair.

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