Happy new year-1422 Pahela Boishakh First Day of Bengali New Year (Bangla Noboborsho)

On 14 April of every year Bengali Noboborsho is celebrated in Bangladesh and 15 April in West Bengal of India. This is the first day of the Bengali calendar.This day has traditionally greeting as শুভ নববর্ষ (Bengali New Year).This year Pahela Baishakh, the most colourful celebration in the Bangla calendar falls on Today on 14 Apr 2015. President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have greeted their countrymen on the occasion of Bangla New Year 1422.

Pahela Baishakh is a traditional occasion in the life of each and every Bengali. Pahela Boishakh is the first month and the first day of Bengali Calendar. On this day we celebrate our (Bengali new year) Bengali Noboborsho. Mughal Emperor Akbar had introduced the Bengali calendar in the year 1556 and now the year is1422.

Bangladeshi people enjoy a national holiday on Pahela Boishakh. Pahela Baishakh celebrations have become an integral part of Bengali culture. All over the country people celebrates fairs and festivals and get lots of enjoyment. There may have traditional song that welcomes the New Year. People eat traditional food and artist shows traditional handicraft to sell.

Village dwellers of Bangladesh traditionally clean their house and people usually dress up in new clothes and enjoy the festival. They also prepare special dishes for guests.People of Bangladesh wear traditional dress like Saris, Panjabis etc. There has a festival organized by the student and the teachers of Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka.

Match summery of Bangladesh in Pool-A: ICC World Cup-2015

ICC World Cup-2015

Feb 18 -Wednesday Bangladesh Vs Afghanistan,   Pool A          Bangladesh won by 105 runs

Feb 21 - Saturday   Bangladesh Vs Australia, Pool A                 Match abandoned due rain.

Feb 26 - Thursday Bangladesh Vs Sri Lanka, Pool A                 Sri Lanka won by 92 runs

05 Mar -Thursday Bangladesh Vs Scotland, Pool A                   Bangladesh won by Six wickets

09 Mar- Monday Bangladesh Vs England, Pool A                     Bangladesh won by 15 runs

13 Mar- Friday Bangladesh Vs New Zealand, Pool A                New Zealand won by 15 runs

Points Table – 2015, Pool-A

Pool A	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	NR	Pts	Nrr
New Zealand	6	6	0	0	0	12	+2.564
Australia	6	4	1	0	1	9	+2.257
Sri Lanka	6	4	2	0	0	8	+0.371
Bangladesh	6	3	2	0	1	7	+0.136
England	6	2	4	0	0	4	-0.753
Afghanistan	6	1	5	0	0	2	-1.853
Scotland	6	0	6	0	0	0	-2.218

Next matches Bangladesh in quarterfinals of ICC World Cup-2015 -2015, Bangladesh vs India at on Thursday.

ICC World Cup -2015-Bangladesh of Pool-A matches:

ICC World Cup Cricket-2015 Match schedule

The schedule of ICC World cup cricket-2015:

Group-A	Group-B
New Zealand	India
Sri Lanka	South Africa
Bangladesh	Ireland
Australia	Zimbabwe
Afghanistan	United Arab Emirates
England	Pakistan
Scotland	West indies

Features:

International Mother Language Day-Ekushey February

Ekushey February

Ekushey February is the International Mother Language Day. Every year 21st February celebrated as International Mother Language Day for promoting awareness of language and cultural diversity of the world. This day is also the Language Martyr’s Day of beautiful Bangladesh. In 17 November 1999, this was first introduced by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and first observed in 21st February 2000.

History of the day

The history of 21st February (International Mother Language Day) that in 1952, 21st February some of Bangladeshi students (Salam, Rafiq, Barkat Jabbar and Shafiur) scarified their life for right of mother language (Bengali). They fight for establish mother language as state language of East Pakistan. In 1947 Bangladesh became a part of Pakistan and named East Pakistan. After join with Pakistan there was friction on economic and cultural between East and West Pakistan.

This friction got increase in 1948 that Pakistanis government make declared Urdu as only the state language of Pakistan but the majority person speaks in Bengali language and Bengali is their mother language in the East Pakistan.

The students of Dhaka University were protested and on 21st February 1952 the police made opened fire at the demonstrators. For that many students (Salam, Rafiq, Barkat Jabbar and Shafiur) were dead and they were deaths for right to use of mother language. After long protest by East Pakistani Bengali speakers the Pakistan government change order and Bengali became official language of Pakistan in 1956. In 16 December 1971 Bangladesh became independent from Pakistan.

Ekushey Book Fair of Bangladesh

The Ekushey Book Fair is a national book fair in beautiful Bangladesh and also known as Ekushey Boi Mela or Amar Ekushey Boi Mela. Every year from 1st February to 28th February Bangla Academy arrange this fair in Dhaka with the help of government and Bangladesh Ministry and culture controlled this Fair.

When started?

The history of this fair that in1972, on 21st February beside the Bangla Academy Chittaranjan Saha of ‘Muktadhara’ publishing house started book sale and also invited the other publishers joined with him. Latter it turns into a book fair and became popular Book Fair in Bangladesh. 1984 this fair named “Amar Ekushey Boi Mela”. This fair is dedicated brave Martyrs those were died on 21st February in 1952.
The 21st of February is our Language Martyr’s Day .In 1952 on that day our brave Martyrs gave their life for our mother language (Bangle). We are proud for them that we are a nation who gives life for mother language. In 1999, this day awarded International Language Day.

What Impotence?

Every year the Ekushey Book Fair organized in the country, this year the Prime Minister of Bangladesh inaugurated the fair. This book fair only the Bangladeshi booksellers may attend and about three hundred or more publisher houses attend.
The importance of Ekushey Book Fair is vast for our country and our culture. A nation becomes a fruitful nation by educated. Many visitors go this book Fair and buy many bangla books like bangla poems, bngla golpo etc. By this fair a big amount of books are sell and eighty percent of books are published in this fair. It’s become a reunion of publisher and reader. There have also discount of new books and it varies up to 20% to 30 % depending upon books. So visitors may get favorites books within the cheap coast.

Ekushey Book Fair -2015

Ekushey Book Fair-2015

This year Ekushey Book Fair-2015 organized in the country by bangle Accademy. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the traditional Book Fair. In this fair total 566 stalls are attend for showing books of about three hundred fifty publishers. The fair open at 3 pm to 9 pm daily except holydays and on the holidays, the opening time is 11 am to 9 pm. For the children there have four days reserved. On 14 February and 15 February2015, huge people went this Book Fair and also buy many books.

Sports In Bangladesh

Sports are a part of Bangladesh culture and people get entertain by it. Many types of games are playing in Bangladesh locally and also internationally. The most popular sports of Bangladesh are Cricket, Football, Kabaddi, and hockey. The national sport of Bangladesh is Kabaddi. There have some traditional sports observe normally in the rural area i.e Lathi Khela, bili Khela, Kabaddi.People get more pleasure to see and play this game. NSC (National Sports Council) look after all Sports federation and Council of Bangladesh.

Games in Bangladesh

There are many different event played in Bangladesh. Cricket, Football, Hockey, Kabaddi, Chess, Swimming, Athletics and Badminton are most popular in this country. Presently there are some other games are played i.e Golf, Volleyball, Basketball, Shooting, Cycling, Boxing, Karete, Table tennis etc.
Most Playing Sports in Bangladesh.

The most popular and most playing games is Cricket, Football, Kabaddi, chase and hockey.

Cricket
Cricket is most popular and most playing Sports in Bangladesh. People of Bangladesh like to play and see this game. Bangladesh has a national cricket Team and this team is able to play Cricket World Cup. Bangladesh got permitted to play Test Cricket in 2000. At present our national cricket team play all format crickets. This year Bangladesh will take part ICC world Cup Cricket in Australia. Shakib-Al- Hasan is one of the best players in the world. Bangladesh organizes many cricket leagues (Domestic and International) in or outside the country.



Football
Football is another most playing game for Bangladesh and also much popular. People love to play football and they enjoy seeing it. Bangladesh Football federation (BFF) organized many football tournaments. Bangladesh national Football team FIFA Rank is 176 (October 2014).

Hockey
Hockey is also popular sports in the country. Bangladesh has a national Hockey team. In Asian Games, Bangladesh Participate on Hockey. Bangladesh Hockey Federation organizes many tournaments on this event in the country.