Bangladesh celebrates Bengali New Year Poila Boishakh

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The Bangaliana festival was held at Dhanmondi Lake, Dhaka University, TSC, Fine Arts Faculty, Suhrawardy Uddyan and Ramna Park in the capital on Friday from noon to afternoon. Tens of thousands of people take part together in Ramna Botmool with the legendary 'Chhaynat Barshabaran festival' and a fine arts procession...

Outside the capital, the Bangla New Year is being celebrated across the country with a multitude of arrangements including Mongol Shobhajatra and other cultural festivities...

Huzaifa Rahman, organizer of the Mongol Shobhajatra, said that the procession was organized by Gonotantrik Chhatra Jote, formed under the initiative of Samajtantrik Chhatra Front, and Chhatra Union...

While inaugurating the Mongol Shobhajatra Khulna City Corporation (KCC), Mayor Talukder Abdul Khaleque said: "Pohela Boishakh is a Bangali tradition, a day of harmony and a universal festival...

The district administration and Sammilita Sangskritik Jote organized multiple events throughout the day at Sultan Mancha square of Narail Government Victoria College and district Shilpakala Academy to welcome the new year and bid farewell to the old one, reports UNB...

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