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WriterRashid Haider laid to eternal rest
Former Bangla Academy director, Liberation War researcher and noted writer Rashid Haider was laid to eternal rest at Azimpur graveyard in Dhaka
PM shocked at death of writer Rashid Haider
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday expressed deep shock at the death of Ekushey Padak winning littérateur, noted writer and researcher Rashid Haider.
Humayun Ahmed’s death anniversary today
The 8th death anniversary of eminent Bangladeshi writer, playwright, lyricist, academician and filmmaker Humayun Ahmed is being observed today.
A capital city, down and depressed
Seventy-one per cent of the residents of capital city Dhaka are suffering from depression. This is not the romantic depression of the poets. It is the depression of humans having to live inhuman ...
How Wilde's stolen ring found by Dutch 'art detective'
A golden ring once given as a present by the famed Irish writer Oscar Wilde has been recovered by a Dutch "art detective" nearly 20 years after it was stolen from Britain's Oxford University.The ...
Litterateur Rizia Rahman passes away
Noted writer Rizia Rahman died at a hospital in the city on Friday. She was 79, reports UNB.Rizia breathed her last at Apollo Hospital in the morning, said an official release.Born on 28 December ...
Mizanur Rahman Shelley passes away
Political analyst and writer Mizanur Rahman Shelley passed away at a city hospital on Monday. He was 76.Shelley, also a former minister of the Ershad tenure, breathed his last at Bangabandhu Sheikh ...
Toni Morrison, first African-American literature Nobel
Slavery was written into her family history and Toni Morrison, who has died at age 88, made it one of her enduring themes in 11 novels that marked her out as a leading figurehead of black writing and ...
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dies
Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of America’s best loved writers, has died following a brief illness, her family said in a statement ...
Writ seeks Tk 50m damages for Renu’s family
A lawyer moved the High Court on Sunday seeking an order from it to provide Tk 50 million in compensation to Badda lynching victim Taslima Begum Renu’s family, reports UNB.The writ petition ...
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