Tag Archives: Chaitra Sankranti

MNA Feature Desk: The country is taking preparations to say goodbye to the running Bangla year 1423 amid the Chaitra Sankranti celebration today (Thursday) and will welcome the Bangla new calendar year 1424 tomorrow (Friday) through Pahela Baishakh celebration. Chaitra Sankranti is an age-old festival of rural Bangla which marks the last day of a Bangla year. The Bangla calendar is solar, with the year beginning on Pahela Baishakh. Chaitra Sankranti is being observed for hundreds of years marking the last day of the Bangla year. Usually rural people arranged festivals to celebrate the end of one year and the ...

MNA Business Desk: For the first time in line with Bangla tradition, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to celebrate Halkhata on Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year. It will observe the day with a slogan ‘Receiving arrear tax, not collection” to motivate the taxpayers in paying due taxes. In business terms, it coincides with the opening of Halkhata, the new book of accounts drawing a balance sheet of the year gone by. “On the day of Chaitra Sankranti, we will offer our tax payers sweets at our offices countrywide so that people can pay ...