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  Next week releases on Netflix

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on January 10, 2020

  A number of movies and shows, including Netflix originals and specials, will premiere on the streaming platform in the next seven days. The following is the...

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  ‘Pre-school Picasso’ shakes up German art world

  Agence France-Presse . Berlin | Updated at 12:00am on January 10, 2020

  Mikail Akar doesn’t flinch as the cameras click around him. Born in 2012, the German artistic prodigy has spent half his life in the limelight....

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  Dhaka International Film Festival begins tomorrow

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on January 10, 2020

  The 18th edition of Dhaka International Film Festival 2020 will commence tomorrow at the Bangladesh National Museum auditorium with the screening of Window to the...

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  ‘A New Testament of Romeo and Juliet’ staged at Shilpakala

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on January 10, 2020

  Theatre troupe Empty Space staged the third show of ‘A New Testament of Romeo and Juliet’ at National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on...

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  Kalidas Karmakar’s birth anniversary today

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on January 10, 2020

  Today is the 74th birth anniversary of late acclaimed painter and printmaker Kalidas Karmakar. Kalidas Karmakar was born in 1946 in Faridpur into an artisan...

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  Poet Jasimuddin remembered

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on January 10, 2020

  Poet Jasimuddin, popularly known as Palli Kabi (The Rural Bard) for his poems depicting the people and nature of rural Bengal, was remembered at a...

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  Furore after top Bollywood star attends student demo

  Agence France-Presse . New Delhi | Updated at 12:00am on January 09, 2020

  One of Bollywood’s top stars sparked a social media storm on Wednesday, attracting admiration and vitriol after showing solidarity with students who were attacked at...

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  Natural History Museum will showcase ‘fantastic beasts’

  Culture Desk | Updated at 12:00am on January 09, 2020

  It’s one of the more remarkable specimens taken into London’s Natural History Museum. It’s certainly one of the most ‘fantastic’, reports BBC. The horn comes...

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  Entries open for Int’l radio playwriting competition

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on January 09, 2020

  The script submission for the 27th International Radio Playwriting Competition, which is hosted by BBC World Service and the British Council, has already started, and...

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  Bangladesh India Nazrul Confce 2020 begins

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on January 09, 2020

  Bangladesh India Nazrul Conference 2020 began on Wednesday at the Kazi Nazrul Islam Auditorium of Nazrul Academy in the capital. The academy has organised the...