Literature

Masud Rana Series: HC upholds order granting copyrights to Sheikh Abdul Hakim

Shawdesh Desk: The High Court on Monday upheld the order of Bangladesh Copyright Office that granted copyright of 260 books of the popular spy thriller “Masud Rana Series” and 50

Art exhibition, Pitha Utsab held at FSA

Shawdesh Desk: The two-day “World Peace Conference-2021” has come to an end with an art exhibition and Pitha Utsab, giving the participants both from home and abroad an opportunity to

Poet Sufia Kamal’s 22nd death anniversary Saturday

Shawdesh Desk: The 22nd death anniversary of poet Begum Sufia Kamal will be observed on Saturday with holding different programmes including milad mahfil, placing of wreaths at her grave and

Legendary novelist Wilbur Smith dies aged 88

Shawdesh Desk: Internationally acclaimed author Wilbur Smith died at his home in South Africa on Saturday after a decades-long career in writing, his office said. He was 88. With 49

Humayun Ahmed’s 73rd birth anniversary today

Shawdesh Desk: Rated after Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam, Humayun Ahmed is often credited with revitalising Bengali literature. The 73rd birth anniversary of the polymath (November 13, 1948-July 19,

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Shaheed Sheikh Russel Shishu Chitrangkan Protijogita being held

Shawdesh Desk: Marking the 58th birthday of Sheikh Russel, the youngest child of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, a children’s art competition titled Shaheed Sheikh Russel

3 US-based economists receive economics Nobel Prize

Shawdesh desk: Three U.S-based economists won the 2021 Nobel prize for economics on Monday for work on drawing conclusions from unintended experiments, or so-called “natural experiments.” David Card of the