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Words could rather keep me busy.
These four lines, quoted from the poem named Chithi (letter), printed in the book named Kori O Komol by the great Rabindranath Tagore addressing his niece Indira Devi, testifies to his passion for writing letters. Such a letter, penned by the Nobel Laureate, came to the light in Patisar of Atrai Upazila in Naogaon district in the school established by the poet himself.
A museum in Patisar, Naogaon, laced with the poet s memory, preserves the letter, along with seven other letters penned by his son and daughter-in-law. There is also the scanned copy of another letter the intended recipient of which is still a mystery. Its original copy is preserved in Mahasthangarh Museum in Bogura district. The yellowed papers of the letter are evocative of the poet who is unanimously credited with taking the Bangla language to the global stage and living no chord of human emotion untouched.
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Developing economies in Asia are forecast to rebound this year after contracting in 2020 amid the global COVID-19 outbreak, but the outlook depends on how fast governments can roll out vaccines, the Asian Development Bank said Wednesday.
ADB’s projected growth of 7.3 percent for the entire region is higher than its 6.8 percent forecast last December, the Manila-based multilateral lending agency said in releasing its Asian Development Outlook report. The outlook for 2022 is expected to cool to 5.3 percent.
“The biggest risk to recovery is still the pandemic,” ADB chief economist Yasuyuki Sawada told a virtual news briefing. “New outbreaks continue, in part due to new variants. And many Asian economies face challenges in procuring and administering vaccines.”
Sajidul Haque,
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Published: 16 Apr 2021 01:43 AM BdST
Updated: 16 Apr 2021 02:00 AM BdST People attend the funeral prayer for former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru, an Awami League MP from Cumilla-5 seat, at the Supreme Court Bar Association premises on Thursday, Apr 15, 2021.
More than 100 members of parliament have tested positive for COVID-19 so far since the novel coronavirus reached Bangladesh in March 2020. );
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Four of the legislators died after contracting the virus, with former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru of the Awami League from Cumilla-5 seat being the latest to be claimed by the virus on Wednesday.
Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury from Sylhet-3 passed away in March this year after the second wave of infection hit the country.