Entertainment Desk The prestigious National Film Award for the years 2017 and 2018 were distributed on Sunday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina handed over the awards to the winners at a colorful ceremony at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in the capital. The awards were distributed in 27 categories for the year 2017 while 28 categories for the year 2018.’Dhaka Attack’, ... Read More »
Bollywood actor Rani Mukerji who is essaying the role of tough cop Shivani Shivaji Roy in her upcoming flick Mardaani 2 visited the Police Control Room in Mumbai and discussed how cyber-crime is putting women and girls at risk in our country. Read More »
Sushmita Sen has announced that she is returning to films, nearly a decade after her last Bollywood outing, Anees Bazmee’s No Problem (2010). Read More »
Miss South Africa was crowned Miss Universe on Sunday in Atlanta after a lavish ceremony filled with glitter and heartfelt speeches about female empowerment. Read More »
Culture Desk Popular singer from Pacchim Bangla, Rupankar Bagchi has joined Fakhrul Arefin Khan’s second movie ‘Gondi’. He gave voice to a song of this movie titled ‘Tobu Dupaye’. Read More »
Cairo, Dec 7 – Xinhua/UNB – Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announced on Friday that it has discovered a number of huge archaeological stone blocks near Giza pyramids west of the capital Cairo. Read More »
The European Union National Institutes for Culture (Alliance Française de Dhaka, British Council Bangladesh, Goethe-Institut Bangladesh), EU Delegation, Embassy of Spain, Dhaka South City Corporation, Bulbul Academy of Fine Arts, and Institute of Architects Bangladesh cordially invite you to celebrate Open Heritage Week 2019 at the opening of a group painting exhibition entitled ‘Tales of the Old Dhaka’ by Joloj ... Read More »
“Jumanji: The Next Level,” a sequel to the 2017 American adventure comedy film “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,” topped the Chinese mainland box office Friday, according to the China Movie Data Information Network Saturday. Read More »
Culture Desk Television host and media personality Hanif Sanket is in the limelight since the broadcast of the Rangamati special episode of the popular magazine show ‘Ityadi.’ In the show, Hanif Sanket brought to light the selflessness and supreme example of humanity by a doctor couple from the US who has moved to Tangail to run forward the Kailakuri Health ... Read More »
Culture Desk Popular Bangladeshi band Miles is going to perform at a gala concert in celebration of its 40th anniversary. The concert will be held at Bashundhara International Convocation Center (BICC) in Dhaka on December 24. Read More »
Manisha Koirala won the battle with ovarian cancer in 2014 and she is “forever grateful” for it. Read More »
DECEMBER 03, 2019, AP/UNB- The maker of popular video game League of Legends has agreed to pay $10 million to female employees to settle a broad gender discrimination case. Read More »
Finneytown, December 02, 2019 – The concrete bench in a small northern Cincinnati suburb depicts a guitar, with the message “My Generation” just below it. Read More »
Known for his comic roles, actor Jaaved Jaaferi is all set to tickle the funny bone of the audience once again as he joined the ensemble cast of the remake of the 1995 hit film Coolie No. 1. The new version is directed by David Dhawan, who earlier helmed the original film of the same name, starring Govinda and Karisma ... Read More »
Culture Desk To celebrate the month of victory, Channel i is going to organise the 6th ‘Channel i Band Fest 2019’ at its premises on today. Read More »
Entertainment Desk A concert to raise funds for Andrew Kishore’s treatment has been announced. The concert will be held on December 20 at New York’s Queens Palace. Read More »
NARAIL, NOVEMBER 30, 2019 – A Two-day-long SM Sultan Utsab-2019 began amid festivity at the Zila Shilpakala Academy premises in Rupganj on Saturday. The festival started with a children’s art competition at 8am. Read More »
A female superhero will use her powers to fight sex crimes in India and the stigma that trafficking survivors face, in the third instalment of a comic series due to be released this week. Read More »
Culture Desk Celebrated singer of the sub continent Rahat Fateh Ali Khan has sung a Bangla song for the first time in his career. Read More »
Culture Desk Bangladesh’s first surfing film ‘No Dorai’ faced an obstruction regarding the permission for its release from Bangladesh Film Censor Board. Read More »
Culture Desk Bangladeshi artist Firoz Mahmud has been nominated for COAL prize from the Coalition for Art and Sustainable Development (COAL) organisation who work in the fields of contemporary art, sustainable development and research in order to promote the emergence of a culture of ecology. Read More »
PARIS, NOVEMBER 26, 2019 – French luxury group LVMH has agreed to buy New York jeweler Tiffany & Co. for $16.2 billion, adding a famed star to its portfolio that already boasts Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Bulgari. Read More »
Culture Desk Editing of the second film ‘Gondi’ by Fakhrul Arefin Khan, the maker of ‘Bhuban Majhii’, is underway. Read More »
DHAKA, NOVEMBER 25, 2019 – Two documentary films of independent documentary filmmaker, film editor and educator Fauzia Khan were screened at Goethe-Institut Bangladesh on Sunday. Read More »
Dhaka, Nov 24 – Renowned Bangladeshi musicologist, classical musician and writer Mobarak Hossain Khan (81) breathed his last on Sunday at his residence in West Rampura in the capital. Reenat Fauzia, educationist and daughter of the Swadhinota Padak- winning classical artist, told UNB that her father passed away in his sleep at around dawn. He was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease ... Read More »
Musician Salim Merchant, of the composer duo Salim-Sulaiman, shocked Bollywood buffs on Thursday by alleging that the prestigious production house Yash Raj Films (YRF) has not paid him royalties despite having collected the same. Read More »
Culture Desk Veteran actor ATM Shamsuzzaman fought for his life at a hospital in the city for four months. While he was at the hospital, renowned host Hanif Sanket used to pay regular visit to him and during one of such hospital visits, ATM Shamsuzzaman wished to Hanif Sanket to act again for an upcoming episode of ‘Ityadi.’ Hanif Sanket ... Read More »
A midnight blue velvet gown worn by Princess Diana when she danced with actor John Travolta at the White House is being put up for sale, an auction house said Monday. Read More »
‘Dilemmas With My Flamenco Tailcoat’, a Spanish solo play written, acted and directed by Spanish theatre artist Valeria Tejero Navas was staged on Monday at the international theatre festival ‘BotTala RonggoMela 2019’ and mesmerized audiences with its unique presentation of storytelling through song and dance. Read More »
A group art exhibition titled ‘Odds and Ends’ by a group of students from the Faculty of Fine Art, University of Dhaka will open at Galerie Zoom of Alliance Francaise, Dhaka on Tuesday, 19 November 2019 at 5.30 pm. Read More »
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