Bangladesh capital celebrates Pohela Falgun, Valentine's Day

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Bangladesh capital celebrates Pohela Falgun, Valentine's Day

STORY: Bangladesh capital celebrates Pohela Falgun, Valentine's Day SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 14, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 15, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:03 LOCATION: Dhaka CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the celebration STORYLINE: The smell of festivities filled the air with tens of thousands of people thronging parks and green spaces in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka Wednesday to welcome the Pohela Falgun, the first day of spring, which coincided with Valentine's Day. Amid vibrant bursts of color, a troupe of artists danced and splashed each other with red and yellow colored powder at one of the major celebration venues, the University of Dhaka campus, in the morning. The day-long event organized by the Jatiya Bosonto Utsab Udjapon Parishad (National Spring Festival Celebration Council) at Dhaka University was packed with music, dance, recitation and elocution performances. With poetry, music, dance and colors, capital residents adorned in bright outfits also flocked to other venues for celebrations that also wave

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