President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Thursday paid tributes to Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib and other August 15 martyrs at the Banani Graveyard in the capital.
He paid homage by placing a wreath this noon and stood there in solemn silence for some time.
President's wife Dr Rebecca Sultana was also present.
They also spread flower petals on the graves of Bangamata and other August 15 martyrs.
Besides, they offered fateha and prayed for eternal peace of the departed souls of the martyrs of August 15.
Fazilatunnesa, wife of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and mother of incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, embraced martyrdom along with Bangabandhu and other family members in a brutal predawn attack by some disgruntled army personnel on August 15 in 1975.
At the Banani graveyard, Bangamata Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib, her three sons- Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Jamal, and Sheikh Russel and other martyrs of August 15, 1975 were laid to eternal rest.