Thursday, July 28, 2011

India Declares August 8 Public Holiday

Sources: The Times of India (Kolkata) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Chief Minister of India's State of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, has declared Monday, August 8, 2011, as a one-off state public holiday on account of the the death anniversary of poet Rabindranath Tagore. [full story]