Hundreds of thousands of Muslims from home and abroad offered Jummah prayers on the bank of the Turag River in Tongi, Gazipur, on Friday, the first day of the first phase of the Bishwa Ijtema.

If we don’t take the chance to offer Friday prayers with millions of people when such an event is so close, we will regret it. My friend and I came on motorcycle to participate in the Jummah ...

Maulana Zubair Sahib, a leading elder of the Tablighi Jamaat, will lead the Friday prayers. The organisers expect several hundred thousand people to take part in the congregation. After Jummah ...