Contributing Author: Katherine Walla Food Tank is excited to introduce the podcast “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg.” On the podcast, Nierenberg invites chefs, experts, and activists to outline their ideal food system—and how their projects are making a better food…
The 42nd death anniversary of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam will be observed on Monday.
HASNA JASIMUDDIN MOUDUD THE LITTLE SYRIAN REFUGEE He is going on not stopping His four-year-old senses tell him to keep on moving beyond whoever directed him to go on to find his mom and sister He is going on he…
Moaen Shalabia interviewed by Malaysian poet Rokiah Hashim Rokiah Hashim: Tell me about your family and education background. Moaen Shalabia: I was born to a family of farmers in Palestine, in a village called Al-Maghar in the Galilee. I was born…
Dhaka, Aug 13 – Golam Sarwar, Editor of Bangla daily Samakal, passed away on Monday night. He was 75.
Dhaka, Aug 3 – Speakers at a discussion on Friday called for taking necessary steps and creating public awareness to preserve the languages and literature of Bangladesh’s ethnic minority people.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday unveiled the cover of a book titled ‘3053 Days’ composed on the prison life of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Dhaka – Bishwo Shahitto Kendro, in association with mobile financial service provider bKash Limited, has expanded its book reading programme at Rangpur and Lalmonirhat, aiming to enlighten the future generations through book reading.
Dhaka, Jul 19 – Total 66.64 percent students passed this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations across Bangladesh.
Dhaka, July 14 – The launching ceremony of the book “In The Streets of Paris” by Abu Sufian was held on Friday, 13 July 2018 at Alliance Française de Dhaka.
-Prof. M Zahidul Haque Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU), Dhaka celebrates its 18th founding day observed as the “University Day” on July 15 2018. The Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University is the oldest and most accomplished higher agricultural education institution of the Indian…
Rajshahi, July 14 – Highlighting the two great literary personalities as sparkling stars of Bangla literature and to mark the 157th birth anniversary of Biswa Kabi Rabindranath Tagore and the 119th birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, the…
A new publication by our partners from the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI). Via a non-exhaustive mapping of various examples in Western European countries, this Working Paper explores to what extent the collective representation and voice of digital platform workers…
From Danielle Nierenberg To celebrate summer, Food Tank has gathered 18 of the latest books in food and agriculture. These books highlight how to make better dietary choices, improve food policy and advocacy, and explore the possibilities of animal welfare,…
Nava Thakuria Guwahati, July 9 – We finished the first half of 2018 with the shocking news that broke from America, one of the professed liberal spaces for journalists in a democracy on Earth. A gunman stormed into the newsroom…
Mymensingh, July 6 – 57 years of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) glory is going to be celebrated at university convention ground on 19 July by the University and the BAU alumni association.
Rajshahi, July 6 – The Rajshahi University (RU) on Friday celebrated its 65th founding anniversary amid festivity and fanfare on the campus. Marking the day, university authority chalked out colourful processions, discussions, tree plantation and rally.
By Matt Taibbi May 2018 – Late in his new memoir, Reporter, muckraking legend Seymour Hersh recounts an episode from a story he wrote for the New Yorker in 1999, about the Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
Language movement veteran Dr Halima Khatun died on Tuesday in a city hospital.The language veteran breathed her last around 2 pm at the United Hospital after suffering from heart, kidney and blood-related diseases.
Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN) — the global network of non-resident Bangladeshis and their international friends dedicated to the protection of environment — congratulates Prof. Jamilur Reza Chowdhury, on his appointment as a National Professor of Bangladesh.
Dhaka, June 24 – A two-week international camp for children of 12-16 years’ ages successfully ends on July 19, in Turkey on the Black Sea. 84 children from nine countries, including Bangladesh and their team leaders worked together for a better…
Dhaka, June 18 – Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) on Monday ordered all the international internet gateway (IIG) operators to block the online news portal, bdnews24.com, immediately.
Dhaka, June 14 – The Committee to Protect Journalists will honour journalists from Sudan, Ukraine, Venezuela and Vietnam with its 2018 International Press Freedom Awards.
Social Europe has introduced a new book by Robert Kuttner published by W.W. Norton & Company Ltd. Brilliantly brings together two strands of thought: explaining both the economics and politics of global capitalism and how our society has abandoned core principles…
Ghasphul, a mass media organisation on Thursday organised a discussion meeting at the Jatiya Press Club to bring into focus the contribution of painter Syed Lutful Huq to fine arts literature.
Mymensingh, May 25 – President Abdul Hamid on Friday urged the young generation to contribute to building a discrimination-free non-communal society by enriching them through practising Nazrul’s works and ideals. “The spirit and efforts of Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam for…
Dhaka, May 24 – The 119th birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is being celebrated in the country on Friday in a befitting manner.
NEW YORK,(BSS/AFP) – Prolific novelist Philip Roth, a dominant force in American literature throughout the latter half of the 20th century, has died at the age of 85.
By Daniela Pastrana May 18 (IPS) – Ángel Santiago is a Mexican teenager who speaks one of the variations of the Zapotec language that exists in the state of Oaxaca, in the southwest of Mexico. Standing next to the presidential…
As governments across the world seek to achieve the 17 ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the findings of the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme have never been more timely and relevant.