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Literature

Prominent educationist Prof Atful Hye laid to rest

Prominent educationist and historian Prof Dr. Atful Hye Shibly was laid to rest at Banani graveyard in the city on Wednesday. He was buried after Namaz-e-Janaza held at Banani Jame

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106th birth anniversary of Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin today

The 106th birth anniversary of art maestro Zainul Abedin is being observed today (Tuesday). The creative genius was born on December 29, 1914, in Kishoreganj and went on to become

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Foreign authors top sellers with literature-loving Tehran women

French authors Albert Camus and Simone de Beauvoir rub shoulders with the likes of Jewish diarist Anne Frank and Russian poet Osip Mandelstam in Tehran bookstores where the largely female

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Hason Raja’s 166th birth anniv today

Today is the 166th birth anniversary of Bengali poet, mystic philosopher and songwriter Hason Raja. He was born on 1854 in Sylhet. Raja gained international recognition few years after his

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Poet Manzur-I-Mawla passes away at 80

Poet and former director-general of Bangla Academy Manzur-I-Mawla passed away at a city hospital on Sunday morning. He was 80. He breathed his last at Dhaka’s United Hospital around 11:00am,

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Ekushey Padak recipient artist Abu Taher passes away

Ekushey Padak recipient eminent artist Abu Taher breathed his last on Friday around 12.00pm at the United Hospital after suffering from cardiac arrest . This is a great loss for the

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Ananda Award Winner Sudhir Chakraborty passes away

Sudhir Chakraborty, a prominent Bengali educationist, essayist and folk-culture expert, died Tuesday afternoon at a private hospital in Kolkata. He was 86 years old. The veteran researcher-writer had been suffering

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Artists did a fabulous job on PM Hasina: Information Minister

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday said artists have done a fabulous job by pouring their hearts and souls in their artworks on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “Writing something

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UNESCO adopts proposal on Bangabandhu International Award

The UNESCO Executive Board has unanimously adopted a proposal for the establishment of UNESCO-Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International Prize in the field of the creative economy. This prize will

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British, Turkish envoys impressed by artworks featuring PM Hasina

British High Commissioner Robert Chatterton Dickson and Turkish Ambassador to Bangladesh Mustafa Osman Turan on Saturday highly appreciated the artists for capturing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s life and achievements. They

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