The Amar Ekushey Book Fair will end on April 12 instead of its stipulated deadline April 14, considering the worsening situation of Covid-19 pandemic. After having discussion with the concerned
It’s a landscape that looks almost alien. Soft tufa rock — spewed from volcanoes millennia ago to create a series of ethereal “fairy chimneys” that have been shaped and sculpted
Ancient mummies of Egypt’s royal pharaohs will emerge from their resting places this weekend and parade through the streets of Cairo in search of a new home. What sounds like
With witty yet economic prose and a gift for recalling the inner emotions of childhood, Beverly Cleary wove timeless tales that took young readers back to the Portland, Ore., of
A Vincent Van Gogh painting of a Paris street that spent more than 100 years behind closed doors has fetched 13.09 million euros (£11.2m) at auction. Sotheby’s said the sale
The remains of a gold mask are among a huge cache of 3,000-year-old artifacts found at an archaeological site in China’s Sichuan province. Weighing about 280 grams (0.6 pounds) and
Ten literateurs have received Bangla Academy Literary Award 2021, according to media report. They were given the awards in 10 categories at Bangla Academy in the capital on Thursday afternoon. Prime Minister Sheikh
The Amar Ekushey Book Fair, the country’s largest book festival, begins today at Bangla Academy and its adjacent Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital on Thursday maintaining health guidelines amid the
France is to return a painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt to the heirs of the Jewish family that was forced to sell it by the Nazis. French culture
Throughout Myanmar’s month-long demonstrations against the resumption of military rule, artists have helped shape how the protests are expressed visually, from moving illustrations of demonstrators who have died, to huge