Daily lifeOn 4 June 2025, the last working day before a 10-day Eid-ul-Azha holiday, customers lined up at bank branches and ATM booths across Dhaka to withdraw cash for qurbani animals, shopping and travel.
Cattle have poured into Dhaka's permanent Gabtoli market ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, but buyers are still scarce and prices low.
Buying a qurbani animal online saves time, but the bustle, bargaining and bonds of the cattle haat remain an essential part of Eid-ul-Azha.
RAB-11's commander says the force is active against disorder at sacrificial animal markets, including gangs that divert traders' cattle.
Market committees across Pabna are accused of charging buyers and sellers up to double the government-fixed hasil in the last days before Eid.
A calm 35-maund bull named 'Lion', raised on natural feed by a Sherpur family, is headed for Gabtoli with an asking price of Tk 15 lakh.
RAB's media director says the force is working to stop underworld criminals and is stepping up surveillance of cattle markets ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.
Checking the security thread, colour-shifting ink, raised print and watermark can protect sellers from fake notes at cattle markets.
A Faridpur man who returned from Dubai has raised an 18-maund cow named Lal Manik on grass and straw and hopes to sell it for Tk 7 lakh.
LivestockAhead of Eid-ul-Azha 2025, Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Sheikh Mohammad Sajjad Ali said on 1 June that cattle market lessees could not collect anything beyond the government-set hasil, and that no animal-laden vehicle could be forced into a market.
The e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh and the city corporation have no online sacrificial animal market this year, but several companies are selling animals online on their own.
LivestockAhead of Eid-ul-Azha 2025, the Bangladesh Army arrested five people at Kamarpara in Uttara on allegations of extortion around a cattle market and four at the Abdullahpur bus stand on allegations of overcharging fares.
The army detained the lessee of a cattle market in Bhurungamari, Kurigram, a former local BNP leader, for collecting more than the government-set toll.
