Sunday, August 2, 2015

'Friendship Day' celebrated

The International Day of Friendship is being celebrated in Bangladesh on Sunday. The day is a very special for youths, juveniles and children. Youngsters have been thronging gift shops and shopping malls to buy special gifts for their friends in the Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet and other cities since the weekend – the eve of July 2, the world friendship day. Friendship bands, various gift items and greeting cards were selling fast at shops. In Dhaka, youths and children flocked gift shops to stock up on quirky bands, gift items, key chains, lockets, rubber rings, greeting cards etc. International Day of Friendship is observed on 30 July, but India and a few other countries celebrate Friendship Day on the first Sunday of August and this year, the day falls on August 2. The first World Friendship Day was proposed in Paraguay in 1958 and the special day is celebrated to show how much friends mean to us.

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