Pohela Boishakh, otherwise popularly known as Pahela Baisakhi or Poila Baisakh, is the celebration of the Bengali New Year or Nabo Barsho in West Bengal as well as Bangladesh. It celebrates the advent ...

When is Bengali New Year in 2024? Know about Bengali New Year and the day and date on which Bengali New Year falls this year. Information about holidays and important days in 2015. Find out when is ...

The backlash against Pahela Baishakh and broader Bengali culture is unlikely to be resolved any time soon. Extending her heartfelt greetings to all, including expatriate Bangladeshis on Pahela ...

Happy New to all my Bengali friends. May you all have only good memories all through the year! Lots and lots of wishes for the New Year. Hope this year brings you peace and much joy. Subho Noboborsho!

At a celebration marking the Bengali New Year in Plano, Hashmat Mobin ... and some carried signs with drawings of the Bengal tiger, Bangladesh’s national animal. Mixed through the event were ...

Bengali business owners mark this day as the start of a new accounts book called ‘Haal Khata.’ Special puja of lord ‘Ganesh’ ...

We are all the same – we are human beings.” Busy marketplace on the eve of new year in China. Credit: Jubaidul Jekab Listen to the podcast in Bangla by clicking on the audio player above.

Pahela Baishakh is perhaps the sole festival that comes in every Bengali's life with a call to link the past with the present and welcome the New Year with rapturous rhythms of rejuvenation ...

About Basanti Pulao Recipe: Also known as Mishti or Mithe Pulao, this popular dish of Basanti Pulao is a Bengai festive delight that is made during auspicious occasion of Durga Puja or Bengali new ...

It is the Bengali New Year celebrated in mid-April. The first month of Bengali calendar (Baisakh) is considered auspicious for marriages, etc. The Bengali New Year celebration is popularly known ...

Two giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are due to arrive at the National Zoo as part of a renewed agreement with Chinese ...

Bengali, Assamese, Pali and Prakrit. With this, the number of languages under the classification has risen from six to eleven. In 2004, the Centre created a new category of “classical languages”.