Staff Reporter
Pahela Boishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year-1424, will be celebrated amid traditional festivities and enthusiasm across the country on Friday.
Meanwhile, the Metrological Department forecast that the prevailing heat wave may remain on the day. The hottest temperature in the country that began on Monday will continue for the next few days, it added.
The festivities of the occasion will begin at dawn with the artistes from Chhayanaut welcoming the day with Tagore’s famous song ‘Esho hey Boishakh, esho, esho…’ under the Banyan tree at the Ramna Park.
People from all walks of life thronged different popular and historic spots in the capital and elsewhere across the country to welcome the Bangla New Year with new hopes and aspirations for a better, peaceful year.
The Met office said, the normal temperature for Dhaka was 35.5 Degree Celsius on Monday. The lowest temperature of the day was at Dimla in Nilphamari district. The temperature was 15.5 Degree Celsius there.
“On Pahela Boishakh, the temperature may be lower than 35.5 Degree Celsius, but it may not be normal as 30 Degree Celsius,” said, Omar Faruk, the forecast officer of the Metrological office at Agargaon in the capital yesterday.
He also said that another heat weave will start from April 18. But he could not say details that how long that would remain for.
Besides, the Health Department said that more than 500 diarrhea patients have been admitted to ICDDR,B, known as the Cholera Hospital at Mohakhali in the city.
Ayesha Begum, the in-charge of the disease control desk, said the number of the diarrhea patients in the hospital is not alarming. But the people should be careful about the heat weave, she said.
