DHAKA: Artist Shahid Kabir’s solo exhibition ‘I Bow My Head To You In Deep Obeisance’ will begin at Bengal Shilpalaya in city’s Dhanmondi area.Cultural affairs minister Asaduzzaman Noor will inaugurate the exhibition as chief guest at 6:00pm on Wednesday.Spanish ambassador to

DHAKA: Canadian vocal quartet ‘Tenors’ say Miley Cyrus is going down a ‘dangerous’ path.The Canadian vocal quartet think the former Disney star, who was catapulted to the spotlight as Hannah Montana, has numerous young fans who admire and ‘copy’ her, and the band are worried

DHAKA: Simon Cowell has officially confirmed pop singer Cheryl Cole is returning to the judging panel on UK talent show ‘The X Factor’.The former Girls Aloud star served as a two-time winning coach on the British program between 2008 and 2010, and in 2011, she was famously dropped

DHAKA: Taylor Swift has added another award to her pile, one that doesn’t come with a statuette, but signifies her broad appeal to music fans.She was announced as the winner of Billboard magazine’s annual ‘Money Makers’ ranking of musicians who reaped the biggest paydays during

DHAKA: U2 won’t release a new album until next year.Although the band have performed live, appearing at The Oscars, The Golden Globes and on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’, and debuted two new tracks, ‘Ordinary Love’ and ‘Invisible’, they are still trying to

DHAKA: Actress Angelina Jolie finds it funny how people think she makes a great villain and would be perfect to play the part of a wicked witch in ‘Maleficent’.The 38-year-old appears as the titular wicked witch in the film and says she was always drawn to the character when she was

DHAKA: Actress Sunny Leone, who has been a part of the Mumbai entertainment industry since her 2011 appearance on ‘Bigg Boss 5’, says she hasn’t made too many friends in Bollywood yet.‘I don’t have lot of friends here. I am too busy and I don’t get to socialise. I just want to

DHAKA: Actress Halle Berry is set to launch a TV production company. She has named the company 606 Films, after the anti-paparazzi bill she helped get signed into law last year.The legislation protects celebrities’ children from over-aggressive photographers.Berry’s production partner

DHAKA: Kangana Ranaut made her debut back in 2006, with ‘Gangster’. And though she’s been around for the last eight years, 2014 might just prove to be the best of her career so far.With a couple of new films that have got people talking, and where she plays the lead rather than the

DHAKA: Rihanna is the world’s most streamed female artiste for the second year running, says online music service Spotify.The singer, whose hits include Cheers! Drink To That and Stay, is followed by Katy Perry, Lana Del Rey, Beyonce and Pink in the top five on the list released by

DHAKA: A piano on which Sir Paul McCartney composed Beatles hit ‘Yesterday’ is set to go under the hammer later in March.The legendary musician famously came up with the melody for the song in his sleep, and he reportedly spent more than a year working on it with pianos and a guitar.A

DHAKA: Actress Sunny Leone, who will be seen as the host of horror TV show ‘Haunted Weekends with Sunny Leone’, says she is open to other offers on the small screen as long as they are ‘interesting’.‘If an interesting offer (on TV) comes, I don’t mind taking it up. I don’t

DHAKA: Bangladeshi film director Kamar Ahmad Simon’s ‘Silence of the Seashell’ (Shonkhodhoni) has been selected for La Fabrique Les Cinémas du Monde.Les Cinémas du Monde, with the support of the Cooperation and Cultural Action Service of the Embassy of France in Bangladesh, will

DHAKA: Actor Brad Pitt says he never thought he would win an Oscar.The 50-year-old picked up the award as a producer for ‘12 Years a Slave’.‘I don’t know where I’m going to put it. I never thought I’d take one home, so I haven’t thought that far in advance,’ Pitt told

DHAKA: Liam Neeson’s latest thriller ‘Non-Stop’, in which he plays a federal air marshal, has landed at the top of the North American box office chart.Neeson’s character must stop a string of murders on an international flight.The film took $30m at US and Canadian cinemas between

DHAKA: Actor Michael Douglas’ mother says that her son and actress Catherine Zeta-Jones have resolved their marriage issues.Diana says the two are now firmly back together and over their marriage woes, reports contactmusic.com, says canindia.com.‘They are together. I knew they would

DHAKA: Italy‘s ‘The Great Beauty’ won the Oscar for foreign Language film Sunday night.Directed by Paolo Sorrentino, ‘The Great Beauty’ follows a writer, Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo), who finds himself at an emotional crossroads as he looks back over what became of his

DHAKA: Those were a few of Matthew McConaughey’s famous last words when accepting the award for Best Actor at the 2014 Oscars for his role in ‘Dallas Buyers Club’, beating out Christian Bale, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Dern and Chiwetel Ejiofor.But he had a lot more to say before that

DHAKA: Cate Blanchett has officially swept awards season with yet another win for Best Actress at the 2014 Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday (March 2) in Hollywood.The 44-year-old actress was nominated at every award show across the board this season for her work as a

DHAKA: Historical drama 12 Years a Slave has won best picture at the 86th Academy Awards, while space drama Gravity won the lion`s share of awards.Gravity`s Alfonso Cuaron became the first Latino to win the best director award, adding to the film`s six Oscars for technical achievement,