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There are fifteen public holidays in Bangladesh. Muslims and non-Muslims have four religious holidays each in addition to the seven secular national holidays. For the Muslims, nine major Islamic holidays: Ashura, Mawlid, Isra' and Mi'raj, Shab-e-Barat, first day of Ramadan, Revelation of the Quran, Laylat al-Qadr, Eid ul-Fitr and Eid ul-Adha ...
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.
To commemorate this movement, Shaheed Minar, a solemn and symbolic sculpture, was erected in the place of the massacre. The day is revered in Bangladesh and, to a somewhat lesser extent, in West Bengal as the Martyrs' Day. This day is the public holiday in Bangladesh. UNESCO decided to observe 21 February as International Mother Language Day.
West Bengal celebrates many holidays and festivals. Throughout the Bengali calendar, many festivals are celebrated. Durga Puja is solemnized as perhaps the most significant of all celebrations in West Bengal. [1] Here is a list of the main festivals of West Bengal.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman[ c] (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), popularly known by the honorific prefix Bangabandhu[ d] ( lit. 'Friend of Bengal ' ), was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist and diarist. As a politician, Mujib had held continuous positions either as Bangladesh's president or as its prime minister from ...
Dhakeshwari National Temple ( Bengali: ঢাকেশ্বরী রাষ্ট্রীয় মন্দির, romanized : Ðhakeshshori Rashtriyo Mondir) is a Hindu temple in Old Dhaka (inhabited since 7th century, 600 A.D.), Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is state-owned, giving it the distinction of being Bangladesh 's 'National Temple'. The ...
Dashain (Nepali: दशैं; Daśãi, also Baḍādaśhãin बडादशैं or Bijayā Daśamī Nepali: बिजया दशमी) is the 15-day-long festival and holidays of Nepal. [2] [3] It is the longest and the most auspicious festival in the Nepalese annual calendar, celebrated by Nepalese Hindu people throughout the globe. It ...
The Bengali Calendar or Bangla Calendar ( Bengali: বঙ্গাব্দ, lit. 'Baṅgābda'), colloquially ( Bengali: বাংলা সন, romanized : Baṅgla Śon ), is a solar calendar [ 1] used in the Bengal region of the South Asia. A revised version of the calendar is the national and official calendar in Bangladesh and an earlier ...