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  2. Bengali calendars - Wikipedia

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    Days. The Bengali Calendar incorporates the seven-day week as used by many other calendars. The names of the days of the week in the Bengali Calendar are based on the Navagraha (Bengali: নবগ্রহ nôbôgrôhô). The day begins and ends at sunrise in the Bengali calendar, unlike in the Gregorian calendar, where the day starts at midnight.

  3. Bangladeshi calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Bangladeshi calendar ( Bengali: বাংলা সাল, also called the Bangla Year) is a civil calendar used in Bangladesh, alongside the Gregorian calendar and the Islamic calendar. With roots in the ancient calendars of the region, [1] [2] [3] it is based on Tarikh-e-Ilahi (Divine Era), [4] introduced by the Mughal Emperor Akbar on 10 ...

  4. Navagraha - Wikipedia

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    The seven days of the week of the Hindu calendar also corresponds with the seven classical planets and related day names of European culture and are named accordingly in most languages of the Indian subcontinent. Most Hindu temples around the world have a designated place dedicated to the worship of the navagraha.

  5. Public holidays in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    শহীদ দিবস ( Shôhid Dibôs ) Language Martyrs' Day. International Mother Language Day. Protests and sacrifices to protect Bengali as a national language during Bengali Language Movement of 1952. 17 March. 2 Choitro. মুজিব জয়ন্তী ( Mujib jaẏantī ) Mujib's Birthday, Children's Day, St. Patrick's Day.

  6. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman - Wikipedia

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    Sheikh Mujibur Rahman [c] (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), popularly known by the honorific prefix Bangabandhu [d] ( lit. 'Friend of Bengal ' ), was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist and diarist. As a politician, Mujib had held continuous positions either as Bangladesh's president or as its prime minister from ...

  7. Bengali language - Wikipedia

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    Bengali is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, [11] [12] [13] with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. [14] [15] It is the second-most widely spoken language in India.

  8. Names of the days of the week - Wikipedia

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    The names of the days of the week in North Germanic languages were not calqued from Latin directly, but taken from the West Germanic names. Sunday: Old English Sunnandæg (pronounced [ˈsunnɑndæj]), meaning "sun's day". This is a translation of the Latin phrase diēs Sōlis.

  9. Ashvin (month) - Wikipedia

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    It is the sixth month of the solar Bengali calendar and the seventh of the lunar Indian calendar of the Deccan Plateau. It falls in the season of Sharada, or autumn. In Hindu astrology, Ashvin begins with the Sun 's enter into Virgo . It overlaps with September and October [1] of the Gregorian calendar and is the month in which Diwali, the ...