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festivals A festival is an event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, Melā, mela, or Muslim holidays, eid. A ...

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National observances

* Language Movement Day - ( International Mother Language Day); Colours worn: * Genocide Remembrance Day; Colours worn: *

Independence Day An independence day is an annual event memorialization, commemorating the anniversary of a nation's independence or Sovereign state, statehood, usually after ceasing to be a group or part of another nation or state, or after the end of a milit ...

; Colours worn: * Armed Forces Day * Martyred Intellectuals Day; Colours worn: * Victory Day; Colours worn:

Religious observances

Muslim

* Eid ul-Fitr () - on the 1st day of

Shawwal Shawwal () is the tenth month of the Islamic calendar. It comes after Ramadan and before Dhu al-Qa'da. ''Shawwāl'' stems from the Arabic verb ''shāla'' (), which means to 'lift or carry', generally to take or move things from one place to an ...

month of the lunar

Islamic calendar The Hijri calendar (), also known in English as the Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to determine the proper days of Islamic holidays and rituals, such as the Ramad ...

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Eid ul-Adha Eid al-Adha () is the second of the two main Islamic holidays, festivals in Islam alongside Eid al-Fitr. It falls on the 10th of Dhu al-Hijja, the twelfth and final month of the Islamic calendar. Celebrations and observances are generally carri ...

()- on the 10th day of

Dhu al-Hijjah Dhu al-Hijjah (also Dhu al-Hijja ) is the twelfth and final month in the Islamic calendar. Being one of the four sacred months during which war is forbidden, it is the month in which the '' Ḥajj'' () takes place as well as Eid al-Adha (). T ...

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Chaand Raat Chaand Raat (, ) is a South Asian Cultural observance on the eve of the festival of Eid al-Fitr; it can also mean a night with a new moon for the new Islamic calendar, Islamic month Shawwal. Chaand Raat is a time of celebration when families and ...

()- on the 29th or 30th night of

Ramadan Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (''Fasting in Islam, sawm''), communal prayer (salah), reflection, and community. It is also the month in which the Quran is believed ...

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Ashura Ashura (, , ) is a day of commemoration in Islam. It occurs annually on the tenth of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. For Sunni Muslims, Ashura marks the parting of the Red Sea by Moses and the salvation of the Israelites ...

()- on the 10th day of

Muharram Al-Muharram () is the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the four sacred months of the year when warfare is banned. It precedes the month of Safar. The tenth of Muharram is known as Ashura, an important day of commemoration in ...

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. * Eid-e-Meeladun Nabi ()– The Birth of the Prophet Muhammad * Shab-e-Qadr () * Shab-e-Barat () * Bishwa Ijtema()

Hindu

* Durga Puja - from the 2nd to the 7th day of Ashwin month of the

Hindu calendar The Hindu calendar, also called Panchangam, Panchanga (), is one of various lunisolar calendars that are traditionally used in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, with further regional variations for social and Hindu religious purposes ...

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Krishna Janmashtami Krishna Janmashtami (), also known simply as Krishnashtami, Janmashtami, or Gokulashtami, is an annual Hindu festival that celebrates the birth of Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu. In certain Hindu texts, such as the '' Gita Govinda ...

- celebration of the birth of

Lord Krishna Krishna (; Sanskrit: कृष्ण, ) is a major deity in Hinduism. He is worshipped as the eighth avatar of Vishnu and also as the Supreme God in his own right. He is the god of protection, compassion, tenderness, and love; and is wi ...

* Dolyatra * Ratha Yatra, the most popular being Dhamrai Rathayatra. *

Kali Puja Kali Puja (ISO: ), also known as Shyama Puja or Mahanisha Puja, is a festival originating from the Indian subcontinent, dedicated to the Hindu goddess Kali. It is celebrated on the new moon day (Dipannita Amavasya) of the Hindu calendar month o ...

Diwali Diwali (), also called Deepavali (IAST: ''Dīpāvalī'') or Deepawali (IAST: ''Dīpāwalī''), is the Hindu festival of lights, with variations celebrated in other Indian religions such as Jainism and Sikhism. It symbolises the spiritual v ...

* Saraswati Puja * Ashtami Snan on Chaitra Shukla Paksha Ashtami (ninth day during the waxing phase of moon in Chaitra Month) as per Hindu Lunar Calendar

Buddhist

* Buddha Purnima - Buddha's Birthday * Madhu Purnima * Kathin Chibardan - offering of woven robe made of cotton to monks and nuns.

Christian

* Boro Din or Christmas - on 25 December of the

Gregorian calendar The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world. It went into effect in October 1582 following the papal bull issued by Pope Gregory XIII, which introduced it as a modification of, and replacement for, the Julian cale ...

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Easter Sunday Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic: פַּסְחָא , ''paskha''; Greek language, Greek: πάσχα, ''páskha'') or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, de ...

Cultural observances

Bangladeshi girls taking Selfie at Pohela Falgun

General

* Rokeya Day * Rabindra Jayanti * Nazrul Jayanti

Music

* Dhaka World Music Festival (music) * Bengal Classical Music Festival *International Folk Festival

Folk

* Pahela Baishakh - on the 1st day of the Bengali calendar and summer festival; also called Bangla Noboborsho; Colours worn: * Spring festival also known as Pohela Falgun; Colours worn: * Nabanna - Winter and harvest festival; Colours worn: * Borsha Utshob - Monsoon festival; Colours worn: * Nouka Baich - Boat racing festivals held after the monsoon when rivers are filled

Others

* Bengal Original Culture Festival * Cinemaking International Film Festival *

Dhaka Festival Dhaka ( or ; , ), List of renamed places in Bangladesh, formerly known as Dacca, is the capital city, capital and list of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the list of largest cities, largest and list o ...

* Dhaka Art Summit * Hay Festival Dhaka * Dhaka Fashion Week * Dhaka International Film Festival * Chobi Mela International Photography Festival * CRACK International Art Camp * International Children's Film Festival Bangladesh * Bioscope Children's Photography Festival * Latin Dance Festival * Liberation Docfest Bangladesh * Hill Film Festival

Fairs

* Ekushey Book Fair - in Dhaka on the month of February of the Gregorian calendar. * Dhaka International Trade Fair * National Tree Fair - Month-long National Tree Plantation Campaign and Tree Fair. * National Fisheries Week and Fish Fair - Week-long National Fiash Trade and Fair.

Local events

* Shakrain — in Dhaka at the end of the Poush of the Bengali calendar. * Jatiya Pitha Utsab — National Pitha Festival. * Charak — 3-day-long festival in Pabna starting on the last day of the Bangla month of Chaitra. * Nouka Baich * Bisu Mela

References

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Festivals A festival is an event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, Melā, mela, or Muslim holidays, eid. A ...