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July 3, 2023

Nobel Literature Prize awarded to Patrick Modiano

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to French author Patrick Modiano for "the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation." patrickModiano, 69, is the author of more than two dozen books and several screenplays. The 11th Literature laureate born in France, Modiano is also the recipient of the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française, the Prix Goncourt, the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. Pri...

Collaborative projects reviewed between Bangladesh, India

India’s Deputy High Commissioner in Dhaka, Sandeep Chakravorty, reviewed the progress of a couple of collaborative projects between India and Bangladesh during his three-day visit to Tripura. bd-indiaChakravorty said the work to supply 100 MW power from Tripura’s Palatana power project to Bangladesh is progressing fast. “As you know, the government has decided to sell 100 MW power from the Palatana Power Project to Bangladesh and in this context I have come to meet the minister and we discussed in detail about the project. We also talked about the con...

Bangladesh home to 6pc world’s poor in 2011

World Bank-IMF study for 2011, however, says the pace of reduction in absolute poverty has been substantial; report stresses skills training for youth as key Bangladesh had six per cent world’s poor while India was home to about a third of the world’s poor in 2011, according to a progress report on various social indicators from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued on Wednesday. In other words, the highest number of the poor lived in India in 2011. world's poorChina, whose population is more than our billio...