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  Bannya receives ICCR alumni award

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on November 17, 2019

  Renowned Rabindra Sangeet singer Rezwana Choudhury Bannya received the Distinguished ICCR Alumni Award 2019 at a programme held at the Main Auditorium of Bangladesh National...

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  Runa’s birthday today

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on November 17, 2019

  Today is 67th birthday of Independence Award winning singer Runa Laila. Runa Laila was born on November 17, 1952 to Emdad Ali and Amina Laila...

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  Dhaka International Folk Fest 2019 ends

  Tanzil Rahaman | Updated at 12:00am on November 17, 2019

  Dhaka International Folk Festival 2019 ended on Saturday night at Bangladesh Army Stadium. Thousands of music lovers gathered at the venue to enjoy the last...

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  3-day fest pays tribute to Radharaman Dutta

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on November 16, 2019

  Folk singers from across the country are paying tribute to late Sylheti dhamail music composer Radharaman Dutta at a three-day music festival under way on...

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  Habib Koite & Bamada rocks Dhaka

  Tanzil Rahaman | Updated at 12:00am on November 16, 2019

  The music lovers of Dhaka were in for a treat on Friday night at Bangladesh Army Stadium where Dhaka International Folk Fest is in full...

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  Curtain lifts on int’l folk fest

  Tanzil Rahaman | Updated at 11:56pm on November 14, 2019

  The fifth Dhaka International Folk Fest, a grand celebration of folk music from across the globe, lifted its curtain amid festivity at Bangladesh Army Stadium...

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  Doherty handed three-month suspended prison in Paris

  Reuters . Paris | Updated at 12:00am on November 14, 2019

  British indie rocker Pete Doherty pleaded guilty to charges of affray in Paris on Tuesday and was handed a three-month suspended prison sentence and 5,000...

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  3-day Radharaman Sangeet Utsab begins today

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on November 14, 2019

  A three-day Radharaman Sangeet Utsab featuring songs of Sylheti dhamail music composer Radharaman Dutta will begin at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy today. Radharman Sangskriti Charcha Kendra...

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  Vivaldi reworked to ‘make climate change audible’

  Agence France-Presse . Berlin | Updated at 12:00am on November 13, 2019

  A classical orchestra in Germany aims to ‘make climate change audible’ with a reworking of Antonio Vivaldi’s famous violin concertos ‘The Four Seasons’ using algorithms...

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  Lata Mangeshkar hospitalised

  Culture Desk | Updated at 07:29pm on November 11, 2019

  Legendary Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar was rushed to Breach Candy Hospital, in South Mumbai after she complained of difficulty in breathing in the early hours...