Bengali New Year (Bangladesh)

Pohela Boishakh is the Bengali New Year celebrated by the Bengali people worldwide and as a holiday on 14 April in Bangladesh and 15 April or 14 April in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Jharkhand and Assam. It is a festival based on the spring harvest—which marks the first day of the new year in the Bengali calendar.

April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 261 days remain until the end of the year.