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Tagore evening held at AFD
Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on November 25, 2019
Alliance Francaise de Dhaka organised a cultural show featuring songs and poems of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore at its Nouvelle Vague auditorium in Dhanmondi...
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Nobel winner Abhijit meets Modi
New Age Desk | Updated at 10:28pm on October 22, 2019
Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, who won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics, met Indian prime minister Narendra Modi at the 7, Lok Kalyan Marg residence...
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Polish city declares free transport for readers of Nobel laureate
Agence France-Presse . Warsaw | Updated at 12:00am on October 12, 2019
Public transport will be free through the weekend for anyone carrying a book by Poland’s newly minted Nobel literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk in her western...
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FAO chief discusses social business with Yunus
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on September 08, 2019
The newly elected director general of Food and Agriculture Organisation of United Nations and former deputy agricultural minister of China Qu Dongyu had a discussion...
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Nobel winner Satyarthi warns of media war-mongering in India
Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 12:27am on March 13, 2019
Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi warned Monday about ‘war-mongering’ by Indian journalists during the latest confrontation with Pakistan.The Indian activist, who won the Nobel...
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Inside the Sad House
Mohammad Khabir Uddin | Updated at 12:00am on February 16, 2019
LITERALLY coarse as the epigraph: Qui es-tu, toi, voyeur d’ombres? (who are you, you, peeping tom of shadows?) of this novella seems to be, its...
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10 Nobel laureates demand release of Shahidul, others
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:20am on August 20, 2018
Ten Nobel laureates and 13 other eminent international figures in a statement have urged immediate and unconditional release of acclaimed photographer Shahidul Alam and others...
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Tributes pour in for former UN chief and Nobel laureate Kofi Annan
Agence France-Presse | Updated at 11:10am on August 19, 2018
From his native Africa to the United States, tributes poured in from top leaders around the world Sunday after UN chief, Nobel peace laureate, and...
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Nobel-winning writer VS Naipaul dies
Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 01:20am on August 13, 2018
British author VS Naipaul, a famously outspoken Nobel laureate who wrote on the traumas of post-colonial change, has died at the age of 85. Naipaul,...
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Social Business Day celebrations end in Bengaluru
United News of Bangladesh . Bengaluru (India) | Updated at 12:05am on June 30, 2018
The 8th Social Business Day ended here on Friday with the participants from different countries exchanging experiences and learning about social business during the two-day...