Facebook launches #FacebookIRL Stories
To help young adults navigate the very best of the app, Facebook is spotlighting how young adults are using the app today through a brand new podcast series called, #FacebookIRL Stories in Bangladesh...
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17-year-old killed in Sherpur over Facebook post reaction
A 17-year-old boy was hacked to death by another teenager in Sherpur鈥檚 Nalitabari upazila on Saturday following a dispute over a reaction to a Facebook post.
Regulating Facebook commerce
AS EID approaches, Bangladesh鈥檚 annual online shopping surge is once again in motion, with Facebook emerging as the dominant marketplace. The social media platform, while convenient and accessible, has become a breeding ground for fraud and unethical business practices in the absence of adequate regulation. Consumers are left vulnerable, while...
2023 curriculum imposed through conspiracy: NCTB
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board chair AKM Reazul Hassan said at a press conference on Tuesday that the national curriculum of 2023 was deliberately imposed on them and it was a foreign conspiracy...
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...
5cr textbooks not printed yet
Many primary and secondary level students across the country are going to over a month-long holiday while they have yet to get all free textbooks from the government.
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....
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...
Shibir cuts tendon of MC College student
Activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, allegedly cut off tendons of a leg of an activist of Students Against Discrimination of Murari Chand College in Sylhet on Wednesday night over a Facebook post...
Attack on bookstall: Revisiting the Taslima Nasrin affair
IN 2009-2010, I was on research leave from the University of Dhaka to do a postdoctoral stint at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. I was going to work on a project titled 鈥楩rom Rokeya to Taslima: Trends in Muslim Feminism in South Asia鈥� 鈥� a topic related to my doctoral research completed at the University of Portsmouth, UK, in 2007 under the supervision of...
Indian police seize books by Islamic scholar in Kashmir
Indian police in disputed Kashmir have raided dozens of bookshops and seized hundreds of copies of books by an Islamic scholar, sparking angry reactions by Muslim leaders...
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...
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...
Bangladesh moves to address China鈥檚 concerns over textbooks, map
Bangladesh said that it had taken measures to address some objections raised by China regarding two Bangladeshi textbooks and the map displayed on the website of the survey of Bangladesh.
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...