DHAKA: Actor Arifin Shuvoo has been selected to play the lead role in the biopic of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh Film Development Corporation in a notice said on Tuesday (March 3). Actresses Nusrat Imroz Tisha will play the role of Sheikh

DHAKA: Model and actress Mumtaheena Chowdhury Toya has tied her knot with television actor Sayed Zaman Shawon on Saturday (February 29). The wedding ceremony has been arranged at a restaurant in Dhanmondi area in the capital.  Toya told Banglanews that her engagement had taken place

After more than three months of non-stop entertainment and spectacular singing, Indian Idol 11 has finally come to an end. The show found its winner in Bhatinda's Sunny Hindustani. The youngster bagged the Indian Idol 11 trophy and a cash prize of Rs 25 lakh. He also bagged an

Veteran Bengali actor and former Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul died of cardiac arrest early Tuesday, family sources said. He was 61. Paul, who had gone to Mumbai to visit his daughter, complained of chest pain at the Mumbai airport during his return to Kolkata and was rushed to a

An actress who starred in the Queen of Katwe, a Disney film about a chess prodigy from a Ugandan slum, has died aged 15, Ugandan media report. Nikita Pearl Waligwa had been diagnosed with a brain tumour. The 2016 film was based on the true story of Phiona Mutesi, who took up chess

Thousands of Australians are attending a huge benefit concert in Sydney aiming to raise A$10m (£5.15m; $6.71m) to help communities devastated by bushfires. Global acts like Queen and Alice Cooper have joined local stars like 5 Seconds of Summer, Tina Arena and Delta Goodrem for the

This year's Academy Awards have taken place in Los Angeles on February 10. The full list of winners and nominees are: Best picture Winner: Parasite Ford v Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Marriage Story 1917 Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood Best

South Korean film Parasite has been named best picture at this year's Oscars, becoming the first non-English language film to take the top prize. Renee Zellweger won best actress for playing Judy Garland in Judy. Joaquin Phoenix won best actor for Joker. Brad Pitt and Laura Dern

A cartoon cat, sick of the annoying mouse living in his home, devises a plot to take him out with a trap loaded with cheese. The mouse, wise to his plan, safely removes the snack and saunters away with a full belly. You can probably guess what happens next. The story ends as it almost

Actor Kirk Douglas, whose Hollywood career spanned seven decades, has died aged 103. The stage and screen actor was well-known for a range of roles, including the 1960 classic Spartacus, in which he played the titular character. Born in New York in 1916, he rose to prominence during

Kajal Aggarwal is the latest addition to the list of celebrities to get a wax statue at Madame Tussauds Singapore. #KajalAggarwal started trending on Twitter incessantly on Wednesday after pictures of the actress along with her wax statue surfaced on social media.  Kajal's sister

DHAKA: A solo art exhibition titled “11 Gates to Visual Basics”  by artist Kazi Salahuddin Ahmed got underway at La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka in the capital. State Minister for the Ministry of Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources Mr Nasrul Hamid inaugurated the show

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, who never leaves an opportunity to attack India every now and then, has this time targeted Bollywood for the rise in sex crime in his country. Khan, while interacting with a group of Pakistani content developers and Youtubers in Islamabad last week,

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos visited the Taj Mahal in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, during his trip to India. Mr Bezos, 56, was accompanied by his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, during his tour of the iconic Mughal-era monument. The two were seen posing in front of the reflective pool that

The producer of the James Bond films has ruled out making the character female after Daniel Craig's departure. No Time To Die, which will be released in April, marks Craig's final outing as 007, and his replacement has not yet been announced. "James Bond can be of any

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is looking for a female "life partner" to accompany him on Space X's maiden tourist voyage to the Moon. The fashion mogul, 44, is set to be the first civilian passenger to fly around the moon on the Starship rocket. Planned for 2023, the

DHAKA: Prominent singer Bappa Majumdar and actress Tania Hossain have been blessed with a baby girl. Tania gave birth to her baby girl around 10:30 am at Square Hospitals in the capital on Wednesday (Dec 18). Tania and Bappa named her newborn Agnimitra Majumdar Piyeta. Both the

Tom Cruise is coming in right at the last second with the ultimate holiday gift. The latest "Top Gun: Maverick" trailer is out and it is everything. Cruise took to Twitter to share the two-minute-20-second trailer with a simple caption, "See you in the sky." The trailer shows

Anna Karina, an icon of French New Wave cinema, has died at the age of 79. The Danish-French actress died in a hospital in Paris after living with cancer, her agent told AFP news agency. French culture minister Franck Riester tweeted in tribute: "Today, French cinema has been

DHAKA: Young music director Prithwi Raj died at his own studio in Dhanmondi in the capital early Sunday (Dec 15). He was 34. He breathed his last at around 4:30am, his friend composer Jajabor Rasel said. Prithwi went to his Dhanmondi studio last night. Finding no response till