Celebrity

Jazz great Ellis Marsalis died Wednesday at the age of 85 after contracting the coronavirus, his son Branford said. Read More »

Bob Dylan on Friday released a 17-minute song inspired by the assassination more than five decades ago of US President John F Kennedy – the influential singer’s first original music since 2012. Read More »

Grammy-winning American singer John Prine has been hospitalized for coronavirus and is in “critical” condition, his family said Sunday. Read More »

Hollywood star Tom Hanks says he and his wife, singer-songwriter Rita Wilson are back home in the US after undergoing self-quarantine in Australia. The Oscar winner on Saturday took to social media to share an update. Read More »

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Friday he has tested positive for the coronavirus, while the number of infections in the United States surged to the most in the world and Spain announced a record number of virus deaths overnight. Read More »

US rocker Jon Bon Jovi teamed up with Britain’s Prince Harry and a military choir to release the single Unbroken on Friday to raise awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Read More »

The Prince of Wales has tested positive for coronavirus, Clarence House has announced. Prince Charles, 71, is displaying mild symptoms “but otherwise remains in good health”, a spokesman said, adding that the Duchess of Cornwall, 72, has been tested but does not have the virus. Read More »

Opera singer Placido Domingo has tested positive for coronavirus. Read More »

Hrithik Roshan is happy to spend quality time with his sons: Hrehaan and Hridaan as the actors is limited to his house in the times of coronavirus lockdown. Read More »

Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan has tested positive for coronavirus, he revealed in an update on social media. Read More »

Bangladeshi superstar cricketer Shakib Al Hasan, currently serving a two-year ban (with one year suspended) from cricket by the International Cricket Council (ICC), has gone into self-isolation in a hotel upon arriving in the United States of America on Saturday amid the outbreak of COVID-19 that has reached epidemic levels there. Read More »

American country music legend Kenny Rogers has died aged 81. Read More »

“Game of Thrones” star Indira Varma has revealed that she has tested positive for coronavirus. Her diagnosis comes two days after fellow “Game of Thrones” actor Kristofer Hivju also said that he tested positive for the COVID-19 infection. Read More »

Tom Hanks has been released from the Australian hospital where he was in isolation since testing positive for the coronavirus last week, but his wife Rita Wilson remains hospitalised, health officials said Tuesday. Read More »

Culture Desk It was a very special day for the South Asian music diva, Bangladesh’s Runa Laila. Her album ‘Legends Forever’, was released on March 11 at the British House of Lords. Read More »

Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for sexual assault and rape after giving a rambling court statement sympathizing with men accused of sexual misconduct during the #MeToo era. Read More »

Redmond, Wash. AP/UNB, March 14 – Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Friday he is stepping down from the company’s board to focus on philanthropy. Read More »

It’s definitely a farewell. But will it be fond? Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will fulfill their final royal commitment when they appear Monday at the annual Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey in London. Read More »

Bollywood stars Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Amir Khan are drawing criticism from fans for maintaining silence even as violence in the Indian capital claimed 47 lives. Read More »

Actor Bhagyashree, who has been married to Himalay Dasani since 1990, revealed that they were separated for a year and a half in the middle. Though they have patched up since, she said that she gets scared even now, when she remembers that phase. Read More »

Bollywood star Kajol has shared the trailer of her upcoming short film Devi and it teases audiences with the concept of the much-talked about film. Read More »

Hip-hop star Eminem has cemented his status as a force to be reckoned after another of his music videos passed one billion views on YouTube. Read More »

Culture Desk Veteran Bengali actor and former Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul died of cardiac arrest early Tuesday, family sources said.He was 61. Read More »

Culture Desk Veteran film producer AKM Jahangir Khan passed away on  Saturday. He was 81. He has been suffering from aging-associated diseases since October last year and succumbed to his illness while undergoing treatment at United Hospital Limited in Gulshan. Read More »

Elton John has tearfully apologised to fans after cutting short a concert in New Zealand due to illness, with the British superstar saying he was suffering from “walking pneumonia”. Read More »

British television presenter Caroline Flack was found dead on Saturday, her family said in a statement, the third star connected with the hit reality show “Love Island” to have died. Read More »

Culture Desk Eminent poet Nirmalendu Goon has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Labaid Hospital Dhaka yesterday as his health condition deteriorated. Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dhaka and the President of National Poetry Council—Poet Dr. Muhammad Samad has confirmed the news of his illness. Nirmalendu Goon has been suffering from pneumonia and dyspnoea. Read More »

US actress and #MeToo activist Rose McGowan has dismissed as a “fraud” Natalie Portman’s Oscar dress embroidered with the names of female filmmakers overlooked for best director nominations. Read More »

One of the great stars of Italian opera Mirella Freni, who as an infant shared a wet nurse with Luciano Pavarotti, died Sunday at the age of 84 following a long illness, media reports said. Born in 1935 in the northern town of Modena, Freni was a childhood friend of tenor Pavarotti and was also his partner on stage. As ... Read More »

Akshay Kumar has delivered what no other Bollywood superstar could ever. His last three films ‘Mission Mangal’, ‘Housefull 4’ and ‘Good Newwz’ not just entered the 200 crores club but also did a business of more than 700 crores domestically in a year which is a mammoth and exclusive record. Read More »