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Pohela Boisakh has been the traditional New Year festival in the state, with the new year referred to as the Noboborsho. [23] The festival falls on 14 or 15 April, as West Bengal follows its traditional Bengali calendar, which adjusts for solar cycle differently than the one used in Bangladesh where the festival falls on 14 April. [51]
Bangladeshi land revenues are still collected by the government in line with this calendar. [9] The calendar's new year day, Pohela Boishakh, is a national holiday. The government and newspapers of Bangladesh widely use the abbreviation B.S. (Bangla Son, or Bangla Sal, or Bangla Sombat) for Bangladeshi calendar era.
This calendar was a lunar calendar, and its new year did not coincide with the solar agricultural cycles. The current Bengali calendar owes its origin in Bengal to the rule of Mughal Emperor Akbar who adopted it to time the tax year to the harvest.
Bangladesh has numerous public holidays, including national memorial, religious and secular holidays of Bengali origin. The Bengali traditional calendar, known as Baṅgābda is the national and official calendar in Bangladesh. The holidays are celebrated according to Bengali, Islamic or Gregorian calendars for religious and civil purposes ...
The first day of Boishakh is celebrated as the Pôhela Bôishakh or Bengali New Year's Day. [4] The day is observed with cultural programs, festivals and carnivals all around the country. The day of is also the beginning of all business activities in Bangladesh and neighboring Indian state of West Bengal and Tripura.
Shakrain — in Dhaka at the end of the Poush of the Bengali calendar. [45] Jatiya Pitha Utsab — National Pitha (Cake) Festival. [46] Charak — 3-day-long festival in Pabna starting on the last day of the Bangla month of Chaitra. [47] Joy Bangla Concert — annual concert to mark the 7 March Speech of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman; Nouka Baich [48 ...
The following is a list of scheduled and expected events for the year 2024 in Bangladesh.2024 is the current year, and is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2024th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 24th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2020s decade.
Bizhu is a three-day-long festival that commemorates the commencement of a new year for the Chakmas and is their most important festival. Bizhu marks the Chaitra-sankranti, which is the last day of the Bengali calendar, and the festivities span a period of three days starting on the day of the Chaitra-sankranti. It is thought that the festival ...