Literature

Poet Manzur-I-Mawla passes away at 80

Shawdesh Desk: Poet and former director-general of Bangla Academy Manzur-I-Mawla passed away at a city hospital on Sunday morning. He was 80. He breathed his last at Dhaka’s United Hospital

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Ekushey Padak recipient artist Abu Taher passes away

Shawdesh desk: Ekushey Padak recipient eminent artist Abu Taher breathed his last on Friday around 12.00pm at the United Hospital after suffering from cardiac arrest . This is a great loss

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Ananda Award Winner Sudhir Chakraborty passes away

Shawdesh Desk: Sudhir Chakraborty, a prominent Bengali educationist, essayist and folk-culture expert, died Tuesday afternoon at a private hospital in Kolkata. He was 86 years old. The veteran researcher-writer had

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Artists did a fabulous job on PM Hasina: Information Minister

Shawdesh Desk: Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday said artists have done a fabulous job by pouring their hearts and souls in their artworks on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

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UNESCO adopts proposal on Bangabandhu International Award

Shawdesh Desk: The UNESCO Executive Board has unanimously adopted a proposal for the establishment of UNESCO-Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International Prize in the field of the creative economy. This

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British, Turkish envoys impressed by artworks featuring PM Hasina

Shawdesh desk: British High Commissioner Robert Chatterton Dickson and Turkish Ambassador to Bangladesh Mustafa Osman Turan on Saturday highly appreciated the artists for capturing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s life and

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Five receive Begum Rokeya Padak 2020

Shawdesh Desk: Five people received prestigious Begum Rokeya Padak 2020 on Wednesday in recognition of their outstanding contributions to society and women empowerment. The award recipients are Shirin Akhtar, Col.

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Democracy Day being observed

Shawdesh Desk: The Democracy Day is being observed in Bangladesh on Sunday marking the fall of autocratic ruler HM Ershad in 1990. On December 6, 1990, military dictator Ershad stepped

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