DHAKA: A two-day ‘Bangal Festival’ will kick off in Washington DC of USA on May 13 in 2017. The Bangla Festival adhoc committee cultural and artist management chairman Mridul Rahman and Bangladesh representative of adhoc committee and its coordinator Saimon Zakaria made the

DHAKA: Popular Bangladeshi performer-cum director Tauqir Ahmed’s film ‘Oggaytonama’ was honored with Special Mention Award in Religion Today Film Festival in Italy’s Trento. The festival, started on October 7. The movie depicts the subhuman life of Bangladeshi expatriates in

DHAKA: JK Rowling has hinted the character Albus Dumbledore will feature in future films in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series. The author has already revealed she has planned scripts for a total of five movies in the franchise, the first of which is released next

DHAKA: Singer Janet Jackson has officially confirmed she is expecting her first child, at the age of 50. She told People magazine: “We thank God for our blessing”, and posed for a picture with her growing baby bump. Speculation about her pregnancy surfaced in April when she

DHAKA: The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. He grew up in a Jewish middle-class family in the city of Hibbing.

DHAKA: Prince’s infamous “vault” of unreleased music is being shopped around record labels with a price tag of $35m, according to US reports. The trove contains songs like Rebirth of the Flesh, Electric Intercourse and Extraloveable - which have been widely bootlegged, but never

DHAKA: US reality TV star Kim Kardashian West is suing a celebrity gossip website for claiming that she faked being the victim of a robbery in Paris last week. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for defamation and names both the site, MediaTakeout, and its founder, Fred

DHAKA: US actress Shailene Woodley has been arrested during a protest in North Dakota against a huge oil pipeline project that will cross four states. BBC reported that the Divergent star was arrested at a construction site as she was broadcasting the protest, which involved about 200

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi movie “Matir Projar Deshe” won the Best Film award in South Asian International Film Festival held in Chicago, USA. Director Imtiaz Ahmed Bizon received the award on October 9. “Matir Projar Deshe” took part in the competition with 14 movies as the only

DHAKA: The Girl on the Train has steamed ahead of its rivals to top the US box office on its opening weekend. The thriller, starring Emily Blunt as an alcoholic trying to solve the mystery of a missing person, took $24.7m - with 68% of the audience made up of women. Last weeks’

DHAKA: Oscar-winning Polish film director Andrzej Wajda has died aged 90. Polish Filmmakers’ Association said he made more than 40 feature films in a career spanning 60 years, reports the BBC. Many of his films - including Kanal, Man of Marble, Man of Iron and Katyn - were

DHAKA: Oboyob Natyadal will stage ‘Pheriwala’ at Studio Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in city’s Segun Bagicha area on Tuesday (October 11). The show will begin at 7:00pm on the day. Directed by Shahidul H Khan and scripted by Asaduzzaman, the play will be

DHAKA: Kim Kardashian West was held at gunpoint by five men in her Paris hotel room Sunday night and robbed, French officials said. A spokesperson for Kardashian West said the celebrity was “badly shaken but physically unharmed”, reports CNN. A spokesperson for the French

DHAKA: Kim Kardashian West was held at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room Sunday night. Quoting her spokesperson, CNN reports, “Kim Kardashian West was held up at gunpoint inside her Paris hotel room this evening, by two armed masked men dressed as police officers. She is badly shaken

DHAKA: Major cinemas in Pakistan have banned Indian films in what they call an act of solidarity with their country’s armed forces. The film boycotts have been announced in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, reports the BBC. The move follows a rise in military tensions between the two

DHAKA UNIVERSITY: A two-day Asian film festival will be held in Dhaka University (DU) in city from October 3. Seven contemporary Asian movies will be screened during the festival to be open for all. Chinese film ‘House of Flying Daggers’ will be screened at 1:30pm and South

DHAKA: Italian police have recovered two famous Van Gogh paintings stolen from an Amsterdam museum in 2002, officials say. The Van Gogh museum in the city said the works were recovered during a “massive, continuing investigation” by Italian prosecutors and organized crime

DHAKA: Korean Film Festival will be held at main auditorium of Bangladesh National Museum in city from October 1 to October 5. The Republic of Korea embassy in Dhaka made the announcement in a press release issued on Thursday (September 22). State Minister for power, energy and

DHAKA: One of Hollywood’s highest profile marriages is over as Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from husband Brad Pitt. A source familiar with the filing confirmed to CNN. Pitt and Jolie got married in 2014 but their relationship became the subject of speculation in 2004, when

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s popular actor Nirob is travelling to Bangalore in India for shooting a movie named ‘Bala’. He is scheduled to reach the city on Monday evening (September 19). While talking to Banglanews, Nirob said shooting of the movie will begin on Tuesday (September