Bengali New Year
Bengali New Year is held on April 15. Or Poila Boishakh. Sri Lankans begin celebrating their National New Year. This event in the second decade of the month April is annual. 
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In the Bengali calendar, the new year begins on April 14-15th and is celebrated with family time, singing, fairs and parades. On Bengali New Year, special foods include panta bhat (watered rice), ilish bhaji (fried hilsa fish) and lots of delicious bhartas (mash).
Bengali day begins at sunrise and ends at sunset. Many people, even Bengali people don’t know when the days start! They start to greet their families and friends at midnight, on 14 April or Pohela Boishakh, but it’s not about English day that begins at 12 AM, it’s about Bengali day. So, all Pohela Boishakh festivities start from the first prahar, which means the first hours of the day.
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Democracy Day in Nepal on April 24 (in honor of the restoration of the Parliament of Nepal in 2006);
Nepal Republic Day on May 28
National Paddy Day in Nepal on June 29
Engineer's Day in Nepal on July 18
Father's Day or Gokarna Aunsi in Nepal on September 3 (Date for 2024);
Nepal Constitution Day on September 20