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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.
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 ...
Their calendar remains tied to the Hindu calendar system and is used to set the various Bengali Hindu festivals. [10] In Bangladesh, however, the old Bengali calendar was modified in 1966 by a committee headed by Muhammad Shahidullah, making the first five months 31 days long, the rest 30 days each, with the month of Falgun adjusted to 31 days ...
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 ...
Pohela Boishakh (Bengali: পহেলা বৈশাখ) [n 1] (Phonetics: pohela bōiśakh) is the Bengali New Year celebrated on 14 April in Bangladesh and 15 April in the Indian [2] states of West Bengal, Tripura, Jharkhand and Assam (Goalpara and Barak Valley).
Pohela Falgun (Bengali: পহেলা ফাল্গুন, romanized: Pôhēlā Phālgun, lit. 'First of Falgun '), also spelled Poyla Falgun ( Bengali : পয়লা ফাল্গুন , romanized : Pôẏlā Phālgun ), is a festival observed the first day of Spring of the Bengali month of Falgun in Bangladesh . [ 1 ]
After East Pakistan became independent as the People's Republic of Bangladesh in 1972, Bangabandhu's birthday was a public holiday to honor a scheduled visit to Bangladesh by Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi. [8] The day was declared as "the day for hard work and dedication to the greater good". [8]
The online portal of Prothom Alo [11] is the number 1 Bangladeshi website in the world. [citation needed] This portal is accessed by 1.6 million visitors from 200 countries and territories across the globe with 60 million pageviews per month. The e-paper site of Prothom Alo is also the Number 1 e-paper Web site of Bangladesh. [12] [citation needed]