Poet, playwright and Nobel laureate Derek Walcott passes away on Friday after a long illness at his home on the Caribbean island of St Lucia

Bangla Academy publishes the book on the occasion of the 97th birth anniversary of the great leader Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Khaled el-Anani says a news conference the statue was almost certainly Psamtek I, who ruled between 664 and 610BC

The songs are played on the radio program called “Distant Noises”, in which music from around the world is played, hosted by John Purcell

The video will be showed between 10am to 1pm, some 1500 viewers including children and juvenile can enjoy the show through registration from the venue

Bangla academy official says the book titled ‘Karagarer Rojnamcha’ describes events and experiences of his imprisonment from 1966 to 1968

The city council voted in favor late on Monday with 42 members in favor and seven against

Alongside the book fair, cultural events and different discussions will be held at the academy everyday which is scheduled to end on March 26

Titled Aar Ki Hobe Emon Jibon, the Lalon Smaran Utsab, popularly known as Dol Utsab, Lalon Academy and Cultural Ministry organise the event

Irshad Khan is the son of Ustad Imrat Khan and nephew of Ustad Vilayat Khan, the highly acknowledged classical musicians of the sub-continent

PARIS French luxury goods tycoon Bernard Arnault is expanding his art museum empire with plans to renovate a disused public building

The centre in eastern France is "the only permanent museum devoted to the Arctic and Antarctic in the world

Archaeologists came across the eight-metre statue in ground water in the eastern part of modern-day Cairo last week

After a 13-year long hiatus, celebrated singer Asif comes up with the new music video for his fans again

A confirmed bachelor Abedin earns his repute also as a leading movie scriptwriter in late 1950s, 60s and 70s

Renowned musicians open the show performing a grand orchestra playing Bangladesh's national anthem while thousands of people enjoyed the concert

The singer has been credited with infusing folk elements in new form in Bengali music and whenever I met him I was struck by his creative thinking

Contents for all the AVs are compiled from moments of the historic March 7 speech by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

The documentary, performed all over the world, has been translated into 25 languages

The gathering congratulate Farhadi and his film crew on "The Salesman" with a standing ovation

The duo recently stand before camera for the play scripted by Doyal Saha at different shooting locations in Gazipur

Based on playwright Molière’s world famous satirical comedy The Miser, Kanjus has been dramatised by Tariq Anam Khan and directed by Liaquat Ali Lucky

Five of such songs will be presented before an audience of new generation at this edition of Joy Bangla concert to be held at the Army Stadium

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki on the ban on his new film with Irrfan Khan and why we’ll have to wait for a Bangladeshi new wave

The festival was dedicated to the memory of late Professor, scholar, academic, educator and intellectual Emeritus Abdur Razzak

The total sale of books has increased by Tk 24 crore than the previous year, which is the highest in the country’s history

A man from Kolkata, Amit Goswami is one of the noted living ambidextrous writers of Bengali literature.…

The theme for this year's festival is 'Beyond Borders' and 'Endeavoring for peace and tranquility in the region'

Female nominations for technical work are rare - blink and you can miss them. From the outside, it looks like a man's world

Shah Abdul Karim wrote and composed over 1,500 songs including 'Bonde Maya Lagaise,' 'Agey Ki Shundor Din Kataitam,' 'Gari Cholena Cholena,'

Ahead of the International Mother Language Day, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations…

Palash Mahbub is a promising novelist, playwright, rhymist, and television programme-maker and host-…

In token of honour, the members of the delegation place floral wreath at the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital in the first hour of the day

The 14th-century marble work by French artist Andre Beauneveu, which had been held in a private British collection for more than two centuries

Law Minister Anisul Huq, MP, and Professor Barney Glover, Vice-Chancellor of the Western Sydney University jointly unveil the bust

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presented the prestigious award to the recipients at a ceremony held at Osmani Memorial Auditorium

To this respect, the younger journalists are a few steps ahead and they exert themselves upon authoring books on a variety of literary genres

Short stories, essays, books on the liberation war as well as poetry are also on the list of readers’ choice, say publishers and stall attendants

The singer has been very close to her husband Shantida who died sometime ago and she was in depression since then