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Hindu community celebrates Saraswati Puja

Hindu community celebrates Saraswati Puja on February 13, 2016 in Bangladesh. Star file photo.

The Saraswati Puja is being celebrated with much festivity and fervor across the country today.

Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge, music and arts of Hindus, was born on the day of Vasant Panchami.

On the occasion, students alongside Hindu communities at different institutions arranged the puja and various other programmes.

At Dhaka University, thousands of Hindu devotes thronged the Jagannath Hall playground where the puja is arranged by students of the university's different departments.

The puja is also arranged at Bangladesh Kuwait Moitri Hall, Rokeya Hall, Shamsunnahar Hall and Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib Hall.

The celebrations are marked by colourful puja mandaps where devotees and students offered sweetmeats, fruits, books and other items to the idols of Goddess Saraswati seeking her blessings.

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Hindu community celebrates Saraswati Puja

Hindu community celebrates Saraswati Puja on February 13, 2016 in Bangladesh. Star file photo.

The Saraswati Puja is being celebrated with much festivity and fervor across the country today.

Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge, music and arts of Hindus, was born on the day of Vasant Panchami.

On the occasion, students alongside Hindu communities at different institutions arranged the puja and various other programmes.

At Dhaka University, thousands of Hindu devotes thronged the Jagannath Hall playground where the puja is arranged by students of the university's different departments.

The puja is also arranged at Bangladesh Kuwait Moitri Hall, Rokeya Hall, Shamsunnahar Hall and Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib Hall.

The celebrations are marked by colourful puja mandaps where devotees and students offered sweetmeats, fruits, books and other items to the idols of Goddess Saraswati seeking her blessings.

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হাসিনা-জয়ের বিরুদ্ধে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রে ৩০০ মিলিয়ন ডলার পাচারের অভিযোগ তদন্ত করবে দুদক

এর আগে শেখ হাসিনা, তার বোন শেখ রেহানা, ছেলে সজীব ওয়াজেদ জয় এবং রেহানার মেয়ে টিউলিপ সিদ্দিকের বিরুদ্ধে নয়টি প্রকল্পে ৮০ হাজার কোটি টাকার অনিয়ম ও দুর্নীতির অভিযোগ তদন্তের সিদ্ধান্ত নেয় দুদক।

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