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  Google doodle celebrates sculptor Novera Ahmed’s birth anniv

  Culture Desk | Updated at 12:00am on March 30, 2019

  The 80th birth anniversary of late renowned Bangladeshi sculptor Novera Ahmed was celebrated by Google on Friday....

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  Udichi’s nat’l confce under way

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on March 30, 2019

  The 21st National Conference of Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigosthi commenced at Mahanagar Natya Mancha in Dhaka on Thursday....

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  Our literature must reflect our lives: Mohammad Rafiq

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on March 30, 2019

  No literature can attain recognisable mark of excellence unless it speaks of the people who produce it and in the language that the people speak, said Ekushey Padak winning poet Mohammad Rafiq at a programme held on Friday morning at Batighar in the capital....

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  New Costner movie features men who chased Bonnie & Clyde

  Reuters. Madrid | Updated at 12:00am on March 29, 2019

  A new film starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson takes a fresh angle on the bloody tale of outlaw duo Bonnie and Clyde, focusing instead on the two detectives who ended the lovers’ criminal rampage across the United States....

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  Ovations, soaring speeches as Apple embraces Hollywood

  Reuters | Updated at 12:00am on March 29, 2019

  Apple Inc brought in Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Jennifer Aniston and Jason Momoa to talk up its new television streaming service at a Hollywood-style event on Monday marked by standing ovations, hugs and soaring rhetoric....

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  Horse racing contest held in Manikganj

  Shahjahan Biswas . Manikganj | Updated at 12:00am on March 29, 2019

  A horse racing contest was held at Binodpur village under Daulatpur upazila in Manikganj on Wednesday afternoon....

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  Condemned Cell staged at BSA

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on March 29, 2019

  Theatre troupe Prangonemor staged Condemned Cell depicting atrocities and deceptive activities done by the war criminals during the liberation war through imaginary dialogues in the condemned cell on Thursday at National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy....

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  Film cameras start to roll again in Damascus studios

  Reuters . Damascus | Updated at 12:00am on March 29, 2019

  On a long-disused film set outside Damascus featuring mud houses, palm trees, alleyways and camels, actors in flowing robes are making a television series that the producers say is part of a gradual revival of their industry....

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  Paintings address traumas of Rohingyas

  Tanzil Rahaman | Updated at 12:00am on March 29, 2019

  Belgian artist Fabienne Francotte and a number of Rohingya children have displayed their paintings and drawings addressing plights and pains, trauma and tensions in their lives at a group show now running at Nalini Kanta Bhattashali Auditorium of Bangladesh National Museum....

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  Shoto Nari Ek Purush staged at BSA

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on March 29, 2019

  Theatre troupe Rangana Natyagosthi staged its acclaimed play, titled, ‘Shoto Nari Ek Purush’, criticising polygamy on Monday at Studio Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy....