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A Joyous Day for children

Books are a child’s best friends. And true to this aphorism, thousands of cheering children walked around the Amar Ekushey book fair along with their guardians wearing colorful dresses, as it was Sishu Prahar yesterday. The premise wore a festive look with tiny-tots hopping from stall to stall...

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‘Little mags’ hits snag

Little magazines, popularly known as “Little Mag” corner at the Ekushey Book Fair has been dealt a devastating blow this year, despite all the fanfare and anticipation preceding it.Little magazines published in Bangladesh have been honored with a separate corner at the Amar Ekushey Book ...

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A meeting place of writers, readers

The month long Amar Ekushey Boi Mela or book has been attracting hundreds of enthusiastic readers, writers, publishers and cultural personalities.It’s not only a book fair, but a place of cultural congregation for writers, readers, publishers and artistes. People, particularly youths from diff...

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Book fair abuzz with hundreds of booklovers

The month long ‘Amar Ekushey Book Fair’ on Saturday, the seventh consecutive day, turned into an animated gathering. The fair premises got a festive mood with a vibrant presence huge enthusiastic book lovers, authors, publishers and visitors. Readers and booklovers were seen roaming arou...

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Sporsho, a stall for visually impaired booklovers

An unconventional publishing house, styled Sporsho Braille publication, dedicated to the visually impaired booklovers, has set up its stall on the Bangla Academy premises like in previous years, with the aim of fulfilling the book cravings of visually impaired people. The stall is grabbing the atten...

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Shishu Prohor gives Book Fair a fillip

The Amar Ekushey Book Fair wore a festive look with a vibrant presence of thousands of enthusiastic book lovers on Friday as people from all strata thronged the fair turning the venue of the month-long event into an animated occasion. With huge enthusiasm and curiosity, thousands of visitors of all ...

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Number of book lover increasing

Book lovers are turning up in an increasing number at the Book Fair as it hit the fourth day on Wednesday. However, most of them were seen browsing titles and showing curiosity about new arrivals. Enjoying respite from daily toil at workplaces or educational institutions, couples, teenagers and grou...

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High prices frustrate booklovers

Booklovers visiting the month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair opined that the price of books offered by most of the publishers were too much high, which is disheartening. Mainly students are suffering from high prices. Visiting the book fair premises, it has been seen that most of the visitors were coll...

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Book fair gains slow momentum

The Amar Ekushey book fair on the Bangla Academy premises, and adjacent area is yet to draw a large number of visitors and booklovers even on the second consecutive day.  However, the crowd was significantly bigger during the first half of the day, but dwindled a little by the end of the day.Th...

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Final preparation for Ekushey Book Fair

Hectic last-minute preparation for the upcoming month-long book fair beginning February 1 is going on in full swing at the Bangla Academy premises and the expanded Suhrawardy Udyan. The even will draw tens of thousands of book lovers at the book fair. Publishers, printers, binders, and transporters ...

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Dhaka University yet to shut evening courses

Dhaka University failed to decide on closure of evening courses even after the directive of the President and subsequently of the University Grants Commission (UGC). When contacted, head of different departments and institutions told Bangladesh Post that they’d obey any decision coming from th...

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Vested quarter active at Dhaka University

A vested group allegedly bearing links with anti-liberation force Jamaat-e- Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir is out to destroy the congenial educational environment of Dhaka University, only to make personal gain by riding on the unstable situation. Following the latest incident, pa...

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Gonoroom plight worsen at DU

Fresh students of Dhaka University are acutely suffering from multiple problems in the Gonorooms at the dormitories where about 20-25 students are being compelled to stay at a stinky room with bag and baggage like a detention camp. Besetting with a number of problems, including bullying, rash, ...

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DU teacher’s fight for reinstatement

A Dhaka University economics department teacher, sent on forced leave in 2017, has been demanding reinstatement in class by staging a sit-in in front of the department chairman’s room for the fourth straight day. The image of the assistant professor, Rushad Faridi, holding a placard that reads...

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Age-old DU dorms with cracks and splits

Many of the old dormitory buildings of Dhaka University have become risky for the residential students as those buildings are now in such dilapidated condition that severe accidents may happen anytime. Students residing in those buildings are in continuous fear of a collapse as the walls and ceiling...

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Hizbut, Shibir active in DU

Militants and communal groups are conducting activities at Dhaka University in full swing targeting to destabilise the government. When the government is taking pride in containing militancy, extremists are trying to make the DU campus their fort taking the opportunity of indifference of the un...

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Student bodies dominate university halls

Instead administrative authorities of residential halls of public universities across the country, Student organizations in convenience with political bodies have long been rule the dormitories for which students suffer almost routinely. General students have alleged that the leaders and activists o...

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The power of graffiti

Graffiti or street wall writings has always been a powerful expression against injustice. Such powerful and persuasive graffiti has been noticed lately as students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) have been protesting the brutal killing of Abrar Fahad, one of the fellow ...

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Agitation goes on as vested quarter active

Despite accommodating all the demands by BUET authority and immediate action by law enforcing agencies, a section of BUET students’ continuing of agitation gives a clear picture that a vested quarter is working behind to make personal gain by keeping the situation unstable.The conscious and pe...

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Public varsity admission forms too costly!

Lofty price of public University admission form sorely thwart students to get higher education in public Universities, as there is no uniform instruction to limit entrance form’ price most of university in Bangladesh are charging a substantial of money at will for which seeming beyond from stu...