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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...