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  Pandemic embrace wins World Press Photo prize

  Agence France-Presse . The Hague | Updated at 11:54pm on April 16, 2021

  Danish photographer Mads Nissen won the World Press Photo of the Year Award on Thursday with his picture of a Brazilian nursing home resident hugging...

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  Online, symbolic events welcome 1428

  Tanzil Rahaman | Updated at 10:56pm on April 15, 2021

  Cultural organisations celebrated Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla year 1428, on Wednesday arranging online and symbolic programmes featuring discussions, songs, recitation and others....

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  Nababarsha celebration over the years

  Culture Desk | Updated at 12:03am on April 14, 2021

  Nababarsha or Bangla New Year celebration has assumed a new dimension in the last three or so decades. In urban centres across the country, people,...

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  Celebs urge all to celebrate Pahela Baishakh indoors

  Rakib Hasan | Updated at 11:59pm on April 13, 2021

  The advent of Bengali New Year 1428 will be celebrated across the country today on a limited scale through online and symbolic programmes. The government...

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  All set to welcome Baishakh 1428 on limited scale

  Rakib Hasan | Updated at 10:58pm on April 12, 2021

  Bengali New Year 1428 will be welcomed on Wednesday through online and symbolic programmes as per decision of the government. Outdoor celebrations of Pahela Baishakh...

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  World’s priciest painting may be a Leonardo after all

  Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 10:52pm on April 12, 2021

  The world’s most expensive painting, the ‘Salvator Mundi’, may be the work of Leonardo da Vinci after all, with several media reports contradicting doubts raised...

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  Monkey plays video game, with its brain

  Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 11:13pm on April 10, 2021

  Elon Musk’s startup devoted to meshing brains with computers was closer to its dream on Friday, having gotten a monkey to play video game Pong...

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  Spain blocks sale of possible Caravaggio painting

  Agence France-Presse . Madrid | Updated at 10:57pm on April 09, 2021

  Spain blocked the auction of a 17th-century Biblical oil painting in Madrid on Thursday on suspicion it could be a lost masterpiece by the Renaissance...

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  Egyptologists uncover ‘lost golden city’ buried under the sands

  Agence France-Presse . Cairo | Updated at 10:55pm on April 09, 2021

  Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient city in the desert outside Luxor that they say is the ‘largest’ ever found in Egypt and...

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  Govt asks not to celebrate Pahela Baishakh outdoors 

  Tanzil Rahaman | Updated at 11:22pm on April 08, 2021

  The government asked all organisations and institutions not to celebrate Pahela Baishakh organising outdoor programmes and to opt for virtual events avoiding mass gatherings. Outdoor...