Google's new Doodle features a parade of banners in celebration of Pohela Boishakh, the first day of the Bengali Calendar Googles new Doodle Friday featured a parade of colorful banners in the shape ...

At different times of the year, we often notice our cities and towns adorned in vibrant colours. They are painted yellow on the first day of Falgun. Baishakh is welcomed with fairs and rallies, red ...

Today, we celebrate the beginning of the Bengali year 1431. Every new year, discussions about the origins of the Bengali calendar are revisited. According to popular belief, the Bengali calendar was ...

For a Bengali, an ideal Poila Baisakh — or the Bengali New Year — means new clothes, a ritual feast along with a box of sweets and a new calendar in hand. Calendars being sorted ahead of Poila Baisakh ...

The Bengali community around the world eagerly awaits the arrival of Poila Baishakh, also known as Pohela Boishakh, to usher in a new year filled with hope, joy, and prosperity. This festival is not ...

When the sun enters the constellation of Aries in the middle of April, many South and Southeast Asian communities usher in a new year. Last weekend, almost 150 Yale affiliates gathered in Sudler Hall ...

Bangladeshis of all hues took to the streets enthusiastically to celebrate the Bengali New Year after being confined indoors for the event in the previous two years by the Covid-19 pandemic. Pohela ...

A woman flies a kite during the Sakrain festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 14, 2026. People in Dhaka celebrated Sakrain ...

Google‘s new Doodle Friday featured a parade of colorful banners in the shape of an owl, tiger and the sun, in celebration of Pohela Boishakh, the first day of the Bengali calendar. The revelry in the ...