The Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2024 will begin on the Bangla Academy premises and at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on 1 February. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate
The 121st birth anniversary of poet and litterateur Jasimuddin, widely revered as the ‘Palli Kobi’, is being observed on Monday. The poet was born on this day in 1903 at
The November auction of a Pablo Picasso masterpiece, the late Spanish painter’s “Femme a la montre” from 1932, is expected to fetch at least $120 million, Sotheby’s announced Wednesday. The
A weeklong solo exhibition of driftwood artworks of sculptor Akhtar Ahmed Rasha highlighting Bangladesh’s Liberation War, women’s empowerment, and nature began at Safiuddin Shilpalay in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi on Thursday. Cultural
The 52nd death anniversary of Bir Shrestha Nur Mohammad Sheikh will be observed at Nur Mohammad Nagar in Chandibarpur union under Sadar upazila of the district in a befitting manner
About 2,000 items are thought to have been stolen from the British Museum, but some of the missing treasures have started to be recovered, chairman George Osborne has confirmed. The
The 82nd death anniversary of Biswakabi Rabindranath Tagore, who reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as arts of Indian subcontinent with contextual modernism, is being observed today. Tagore died
Dhaka-based independent editor and curator Sadia Sartaj Rahman is participating in Liverpool Biennial in the UK, said a press release. Liverpool Biennial is running its 12th edition from 10 June
Theatre troupe Dania Studio Theatre premiered its production titled Kathan: Chhinna Bhinna Itihas at the Dania Studio Theatre Hall at Dania, Jatrabari in the capital on Saturday. Kathan: Chhinna Bhinna
Discussants at a programme said that poet Sufia Kamal broke the citadel of conservatism and waved the flag of progress at the Poet Shamsur Rahman Seminar Room of Bangla Academy