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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 ...
List of years in Bangladesh. 2018 ( MMXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2018th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 18th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2010s decade. The year 2018 was the 47th year after the independence of Bangladesh.
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 ...
Pohela Boishakh ( Bengali: পহেলা বৈশাখ) [ n 1] 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 ).
Islamic culture. Eid al-Adha ( Arabic: عيد الأضحى, romanized : ʿĪd al-ʾAḍḥā, lit. 'Feast of Sacrifice') is the second of the two main holidays in Islam alongside Eid al-Fitr. It falls on the 10th of Dhu al-Hijja, the twelfth and final month of the Islamic calendar.
DHAKA (Reuters) -Soldiers patrolled the deserted streets of the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Saturday and the government ordered all offices and institutions to stay closed for two days after at ...
Victory Day ( Bengali: বিজয় দিবস Bijôy Dibôsh) is a national holiday in Bangladesh celebrated on 16 December to commemorate the defeat of the Pakistan Armed Forces in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 and the Independence of Bangladesh. It commemorates the Pakistani Instrument of Surrender, wherein the commander of the ...
Hasina's government halted the quotas after mass student protests in 2018. But last month, Bangladesh’s High Court nullified that decision and reinstated the quotas after relatives of the 1971 ...