Nepali New Year, or Navabarsha / Vaishak Ek
Nepali New Year, or Navabarsha / Vaishak Ek is held on April 14. South and Southeast Asian New Year. This event in the second decade of the month April is annual. 
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Pahela Baishakh (Bangla Navabarsha), Bengali new year's day which falls in the middle of April, is celebrated throughout Bangladesh as a traditional festival. The day starts with the people taking a breakfast of pantabhat or soaked rice with fried fish or vegetable curry or cheera, gud and yoghurt.
Vikram Samvat or Bikram Sambat B.S. and also known as the Vikrami calendar, is a national calendar of Nepal historically used in the Indian subcontinent. Vikram Samvat is generally 57 years ahead of Gregorian Calendar, except during January to April, when it is ahead by 56 years. Alongside Nepal Sambat, it is one of the two official calendars used in Nepal. In India, it is used in several states.
Baisakhi (Bikram Samwat / Vaishak Ek) is celebrated as Nepalese New Year because it is the day which marks Hindu Solar New Year as per the solar Nepali Bikram Sambat.
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Songkran in Thailand, Laos, and Nepal on April 13 (Thai New Year, a New Year festival celebrated April 13-15);
Bengali New Year on April 15 (or Poila Boishakh. Sri Lankans begin celebrating their National New Year);
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)
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