Ekushey Padak winner Prof Ahmad Shamsul Islam dies
Ekushey Padak-winning educationist, scientist, researcher, and author Professor Dr Ahmad Shamsul Islam died early Monday...
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Folk artiste Sushama Dash dies in Sylhet
Ekushey Padak-winning folk artiste Sushma Dash died at her home of Hawlader Para in Sylhet on Wednesday...
Ekushey book fair ends
The curtain fell on the month-long Ekushey Book Fair 2025 on Friday with a large crowd at the fair on the last day.
Afsana Begum brings two new literary works
Fiction writer Afsana Begum has brought two new literary works at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair...
Hasan Roni鈥檚 鈥楶herar Marshum鈥� hits book fair
Poet Hasan Roni鈥檚 debut collection of poems titled Pherar Marshum has hit the Amar Ekushey Book Fair...
Razu Alauddin brings four new books
Poet-essayist and translator Razu Alauddin鈥檚 four new literary works are available at the on-going Amar Ekushey Book Fair...
Twice-weekly newspaper that has caught on
Twice-weekly tabloid Sare 3 Diner Patrika, three and a half days鈥� newspaper, is what has drawn a number of readers to the stall of the same name in the Suhrawardy Udyan ground of Amar Ekushey book fair this year. The month-long fair ends today...
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: Sale, new titles on political issues rise
New titles on different political issues have risen significantly in the ongoing Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 on the back of readers鈥� interest, publishers said on Wednesday...
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: New titles on War of Independence drop
The number of new books on the War of Independence has dropped significantly at the ongoing month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 organised by the Bangla Academy...
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: Titles on July uprising attract readers
Books on the July uprising have attracted readers, mostly young ones, at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 organised by the Bangla Academy...
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: Sale of Islamic books rises
Sale of Islamic books has increased this year at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 organised by the Bangla Academy...
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: Visitors swarm to fair, sales not satisfactory
The Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 witnessed a huge crowd as visitors thronged the fair venues at Bangla Academy and Suhrawardy Udyan on the Bhasha Shaheed Dibas and International Mother Language Day on Friday.
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: Crowd, festivity, sale delight publishers
The Ekushey Book Fair became festive with the presence of a large crowd on Bhasha Shaheed Dibas and International Mother Language Day on Friday....
Amar Ekushey observed
The nation on Friday observed Amar Ekushey and International Mother Language Day paying homage to the memory of the Language Movement martyrs, who made the supreme sacrifices in the 1952 Language Movement.
People will resist if fascism emerges again: Rizvi
Highlighting the spirit of the Amar Ekushey, Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said on Friday that people of the country would again take to the streets if any fascism and dictatorship arise.
Ekushey Book Fair witnesses large crowd on International Mother Language Day
The Ekushey Book Fair witnessed a large number of visitors in the morning.
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: More volumes of poetry, fewer readers
The number of volumes of poetry at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 this week reached 300 but the sale of collections of poems decreased as people read poems in different ways, publishers said on Thursday...
FROM EKUSHEY TO AVRO: Fight for Bangla in digital age
THE streets of Bangladesh are filled with Bangla 鈥� on signboards, in conversations, woven into the fabric of daily life. Yet, a closer look reveals something more layered: 鈥樴Λ唳距Π唰嵿Ξ唰囙Ω唰�鈥� 鈥樴Λ唳距Ω唰嵿 唳唳� 唳曕Π唰嵿Θ唳距Π,鈥� and 鈥樴Ξ唰嬥Μ唳距唳� 唳膏唳班唳唳膏唳傗��. Bangla script carrying foreign words, a blend so common that it often goes unnoticed. On social media, Bangla shifts between alphabets, appearing...
BHADRALOK TO SUSHEEL: Language, identity and hegemony in post-colonial Bangladesh
IN MY small town, Bheramara, Ekushey February was a ritual. Barefoot we roamed, demanding the same of every passerby 鈥� a shedding of shoes, a mark of respect. Bangla, bhasha shaheed 鈥� these weren鈥檛 just words, they were close to the heart, a pulse. And how could they not be? Bangladesh, a nation birthed from language, its very being woven into the...
Bangladeshi youths ready to take lead in building new world: CA
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday said that the country鈥檚 young generation wanted to lead the world apart from building a new Bangladesh...
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: Few titles on Language Movement
Ekushey programmes at the ongoing month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 began with a 10-day theatre festival on the Mukta Mancha stage on the Suhrawardy Udyan premises on Wednesday, with only a few books on the Language Movement...
Nation set to observe Amar Ekushey
The nation is set to observe Amar Ekushey on Friday, paying rich tributes to the language movement martyrs of 1952 who made the supreme sacrifices to establish Bangla as a state language...
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: Audiobooks, e-books galore
Online platforms offer a wide range of packages to subscribers at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair as the demand for audiobooks and e-books is on the rise...
Visitors to book fair decrease
Publishers and visitors on Monday said that the turnout of visitors at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 decreased due to a number of controversial incidents and mismanagement at fair venues...
Sanitary napkin stall closed at book fair amid Islamist protests
Amid protests by some Islamist groups, the Bangla Academy on Sunday ordered the shutdown of the stalls selling sanitary napkins at the Ekushey book fair.聽
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: Demand for non-fiction on rise
Publishers and stall managers said on Sunday at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 that the number of readers of non-fiction was increasing day by day as the non-fiction books were in demand.
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: Visitors swarm, publishers not happy with sales
A large number of visitors thronged the Amar Ekushey Book Fair on Saturday but the sales at the bookstalls at the fairground were not satisfactory, publishers said.
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: Spring festival at book fair, security tightened
Visitors, mostly youths, came in traditional and colourful attires at the month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka on Thursday, a day before the spring, amid tightened security...
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: Slogans reflect aspiration of common people: discussion
Speakers including poets, activists and academics at a discussion held at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 on Wednesday, said that slogans during the student-led mass uprising depicted common people鈥檚 language and aspirations...
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR: Security increased after mob attack
The police on Tuesday tightened security at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 after a mob attack on a stall at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka city on Monday...