Road Transport and Bridges, Railways and Shipping Minister Sheikh Rabiul Alam said on 26 May that no lawlessness on the roads would be tolerated during the Eid journey.
The pir of the Ramchandrapur Darbar Sharif in Sadarpur, Faridpur, and his followers offered Eid-ul-Azha prayers on 26 May, a day before the rest of the country, and will sacrifice animals the next morning.
Buyers returned to the Kalshi cattle market in Dhaka after morning rain on 26 May, but high asking prices for small and medium cows kept sales slow.
With Eid-ul-Azha close, Madaripur's cattle markets are packed with buyers and sellers, while law enforcers patrol in plain clothes against counterfeit notes and drugging gangs.
Dhaka North City Corporation's administrator says no complaints of extortion have been received from cattle markets in either city corporation area.
The government and related agencies are working together to give buyers and sellers a comfortable environment at Dhaka's cattle markets, the state minister for local government said.
LivestockA sudden midday downpour on 26 May 2026 turned Dhaka's Shahjahanpur, Kamalapur and Kachukhet sacrificial animal markets to mud, drove buyers away and left traders fearing losses and sick cattle.
Traders bringing sacrificial cattle to Dhaka say truck fares have risen by Tk 6,000 to Tk 8,000 a load since last year because of higher fuel prices.
Sacrificial animal markets in the border district of Sherpur are getting busier, with medium-sized cows in the greatest demand.
A wide gap between what traders ask and what buyers offer has kept sales slow at Dhaka's Kachukhet sacrificial animal market.
Heavy metals from discarded electronics are seeping into farmland, water and the food chain, and the writer calls for recycling and safe disposal, including of farm sensors.
Two people have died after a buffalo ran amok at a sacrificial animal market in Dewanganj, Jamalpur, the second dying in hospital on Monday.
A woman died after the cow she brought to sell at Gharmora Bazar in Homna, Cumilla, turned on her and gored her.
