The cabinet has approved 23 public holidays for the upcoming new year 2015.
The approval was given at the regular cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday.
Cabinet Secretary M Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan briefed the media after the meeting at the secretariat in the afternoon.
Out of those public holidays, 15 days are general public holidays on the occasion of various national days and religious functions of different communities. The remaining eight public holidays will be observed through the executive order.
However, 15 public holidays include nine weekly holidays and eight public holidays of executive order will include three weekly holidays.
He also informed that there will be two holidays (January 8 and December 25) for Eid-e-Miladunnabi next year.