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  BNP, allies for withdrawal of AL-nominated chairmen

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:58am on November 16, 2018

  The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance on Thursday urged the Election Commission to withdraw the ruling Awami League-nominated chairmen from management committees of educational institutes in...

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  On the ebb and flow of band music

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:00am on November 16, 2018

  Naquib Khan is one of the few musicians who started his career when band music saw its fresh beginning in the newly independent country. 1972...

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  Hindu leaders campaigning for 50 reserved seats in parliament

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 04:10pm on November 13, 2018

  Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Mahajote leaders are campaigning for allocation of 50 reserved seats in the Jatiya Sangsad, formation of...

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  Hindu leaders for 50 reserved seats in JS

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 02:04am on November 13, 2018

  Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Mahajote leaders are campaigning for allocation of 50 reserved seats in the Jatiya Sangsad, formation of a separate ministry for the religious...

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  BNP briefs diplomats on joining polls

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:00am on November 13, 2018

  The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party briefed representatives of the foreign missions in Dhaka and development partners at party chairperson’s Gulshan office on Monday on...

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  People suffer as AL activists rule roads

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:20am on November 12, 2018

  Dhaka city dwellers on Sunday suffered terribly for traffic gridlocks caused by nomination aspirants of ruling party Awami League, who brought out processions violating electoral...

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  Tension brews ahead of Ijtema

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:00am on November 11, 2018

  Tension grows as two factions of Tabligh Jamaat Bangladesh are in a confrontational situation over Indian cleric Maulana Muhammad Saad Al Kandhalvi before Biswa Ijtema....

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  Bridging Beethoven with Indian ragas

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 04:18am on November 02, 2018

  Three classical musicians — two from France and one from India — recently visited Bangladesh to present two successive instrumental concerts in Dhaka and Chattogram...

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  Rafiqun Nabi: a painter and cartoonist

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 03:59am on November 02, 2018

  Rafiqun Nabi of Tokai fame has left a sinuous trail of creativity behind him as an accomplished watercolourist and oil-acrylic painter. At 75, he is...

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  Prioty joins politics in Ireland

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 03:07am on October 26, 2018

  The Bangladesh-born Irish model Maksuda Akhter Prioty has joined the ruling party of the Republic of Ireland, Fine Gael, with the aim to be a...