The 50th edition of the iconic Kolkata Book Fair was inaugurated on Tuesday. However, breaking a nearly three-decade-long tradition, Bangladesh will not be represented at this year’s fair—deeply ...

Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus today (1 February) inaugurated the month-long 'Amar Ekushey Book Fair' on the Bangla Academy and Suhrawardy Udyan premises in Dhaka. Yunus was present as the chief guest ...

The month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 is set to begin today (1 February) on the Bangla Academy and Suhrawardy Udyan premises as Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus is scheduled to inaugurate the ...

Today Islamic date in Bangladesh is calculated as per the lunar-based calendar which consists of 12 Lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. A Muslim must know about the exact Islamic date today or ...

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has requested that the Bangla Academy review manuscripts for books before they hit the shelves at Amar Ekushey Book Fair. "We've suggested the academy make sure the ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Bangladesh’s ailing former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia left the nation’s capital on Tuesday for medical ...

An 18-month-old child underwent a procedure on the wrong eye at the Bangladesh Eye Hospital in ... a consultant pediatric ophthalmologist and strabismus surgeon. Despite repeated attempts, she ...

The interim government of Bangladesh on Sunday (January 12, 2025) expressed “deep concern” about the prevailing situation along the India-Bangladesh borders. Dhaka’s message was conveyed by ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – The flags of their nations planted on a table between them, Pakistan’s army chief, General Asim Munir, sat with Lieutenant General SM Kamrul Hassan, an officer in the ...

This sweeping novel about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor is the topic of our January book club discussion. “Something Rotten,” Andrew Lipstein’s ...