Celebrations all around as traditional Spring festival, Valentine's Day ring in Bangladesh

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Celebrations all around as traditional Spring festival, Valentine's Day ring in Bangladesh

STORY: Celebrations all around as traditional Spring festival, Valentine's Day ring in Bangladesh DATELINE: Feb. 15, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:52 LOCATION: Dhaka CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: various of celebrations STORYLINE: With poetry, music, and dance, people in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka and elsewhere Tuesday celebrated a grand festival that waves goodbye to the shivery chill of winter in the country. People in Dhaka gathered in parks and green spaces to celebrate Pohela Falgun, the first day of spring and of the Bengali month Falgun, along with Valentine's Day. Amid vibrant bursts of color, a troupe of artists danced and splashed each other with powder-colored red and yellow at one of the major celebration venues -- the University of Dhaka campus on Tuesday morning. Young couples were seen celebrating their relationship and marking their togetherness with the blazing red and yellow colors -- the representative colors of the festivals. Elsewhere in Bangladesh, people also performed chorus, folk dance and

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