<span style="color: #222222;">The traditional festival of Shakrain was celebrated in several parts of Dhaka on Thursday. On this occasion, people engaged in kite flying and fireworks among many other recent additions like 'DJ Party' to celebrate this occasion. The kite flying competition is followed by a winter cake festival — pithapuli in which rice cake pudding is eaten by people.<br />'' <br />'' This is a centuries old tradition in several parts of Bangladesh celebrated on the last day of the Bengali month of Paush. People in the old Dhaka city of Shakhari Bazar, Laxmibazar, Bangshal and Sutrapur among others celebrated this festival with great joy.<br />'' <br />'' The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) organised the festival for the first time this year with the slogan 'Let's Fly a kite, Cherish Tradition'. The festival was held in all the 75 wards of DSCC with the Mayor Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh inaugurating the festival by flying the kite in the city.<br />''<br />''In a statement, Mayor Taposh said that celebrating such events will spread the culture, tradition and heritage of Bangladesh among the new generation alongwith eradicating communal forces from the country. He said that from now on the festival will be organised on a large scale by the city corporation every year.</span>