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Star Line Pitha Competition launched
Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 11:06pm on January 24, 2021
A nationwide pitha competition named Star Line Pitha Competition was launched on Sunday, said a press release. The event has been jointly arranged by Star...
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Selim Ahmed remembered
Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 11:18pm on January 23, 2021
Actor, art director and book cover designer Selim Ahmed was remembered at a programme held at the Seminar Room of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Saturday....
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Rajshahi-based artistes recite works by leading poets
Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 11:16pm on January 23, 2021
Recitation artistes from Rajshahi entertained viewers reciting poems penned by leading poets in an online programme held on Friday. The programme titled Chhutir Bikele Abritti...
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London to remove two statues over links to slavery
Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 10:03pm on January 22, 2021
The local authority that runs London’s historic financial district is to remove the statues of two British colonial-era politicians over their links to the slave...
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Le Monde’s celebrated cartoonist Plantu to bow out after 50 years
Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 09:59pm on January 22, 2021
The celebrated cartoonist of France’s Le Monde daily Plantu said Friday that he would soon leave the paper after half a century of work that...
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Black ballet dancer stands strong in Berlin racism row
Agence France-Presse . Berlin | Updated at 11:21pm on January 20, 2021
Berlin State Ballet’s first black dancer Chloe Lopes Gomes said she has been made to feel different because of her skin colour since she first...
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Netflix continues flourishing amid COVID-19 situation
Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 11:54am on January 20, 2021
Netflix on Tuesday topped subscriber growth expectations in the past quarter, keeping ahead of new streaming rivals competing for viewers stuck in their homes during...
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Stolen Salvator Mundi copy found in Naples flat
Agence France-Presse . Rome | Updated at 10:42pm on January 19, 2021
Italian police has found a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi in a Naples flat and returned it to a museum that had...
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Egypt unveils treasures found at ancient site
Agence France-Presse. Saqqara | Updated at 10:57pm on January 18, 2021
Egypt unveiled Sunday ancient treasures found at the Saqqara archaeological site south of Cairo, including sarcophagi over 3,000 years old, a discovery that ‘rewrites history’,...
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Recitation artistes protest at violence against women
Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 10:51pm on January 15, 2021
Female recitation artistes from Sylhet protested at violence against women reciting poems in an online programme held on Friday. The programme titled Amra Nemechhi Pathe...