, April 30 -- The historic May Day will be observed in Bangladesh on Friday as elsewhere across the world .

May Day, also known as the International Workers' Solidarity Day, commemorates the historic uprising of working people in Chicago, USA at the height of a prolonged fight for an eight-hour workday in the late nineteenth century.

This year's theme is 'Shushtho Shramik, Kormoth Haat; Asbey Ebar Nabo Probhat'.

The day is a public holiday in Bangladesh.

Newspapers will publish supplements while radio and television channels will air special programmes highlighting the significance of the day.

Different socio-cultural organizations, political parties chalked out various programmes to observe the day.

On May 1, 1886, 10 workers were ...