DHAKA: Cultural affairs minister Asaduzzaman Noor called for the dissemination of the works of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.He made the call while placing wreath on the grave of the national poet on his 116th birth anniversary on Monday morning.Terming Nazrul a bright star in Bangla

DHAKA: The 2015 Palme d’Or goes to Dheepan, Jacques Audiard’s low-key study of Tamil Tiger refugees trying to build a new life in France. It stars Jesuthasan Antonythasan as a man who recruits a woman and a young girl to pretend to be his family in order to gain asylum.Audiard is a

CANNES (FRANCE): During the past ten-day journey riding on Pambus I have noticed that the most French people are very courteous and polite particularly to the elderly people.They usually make seat for the elders if there is no vacant seat. While entering the festival Palace Hall I noticed

DHAKA:  Star Cineplex arranged the premiere show of the latest Hollywood movie ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ in 3D at its hall in Bashundhara City Shopping Mall in city’s Panthapath area.The show began Thursday evening.The fourth Mad Max film franchise, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ is a 2015

DHAKA: The 2015 edition of the Man Booker International Prize has been won by Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai.The prize is presented once every two years to a living author for a body of work published either originally in English or available in translation in the English language,

DHAKA:  Star Cineplex will arrange the premiere show of the latest Hollywood movie ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ in 3D at its hall in Bashundhara City Shopping Mall in city’s Panthapath area.The show will be held at 7:00pm on Thursday.The fourth Mad Max film franchise, ‘Mad Max: Fury

DHAKA: Taylor Swift had a historic night at the Billboard Music Awards: The pop star is the most decorated artist in the show’s history win 20 wins, beating Garth Brooks’ 19-win record.She won eight awards Sunday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, including top artist,

DHAKA: Australian officials have told actor Johnny Depp that he has until Saturday to get his pet dogs out of Australia -- and if they haven't "buggered off" by then they will be put down, reports CNN.Depp's two dogs are on a deportation countdown after the actor violated Australia's

DHAKA: Bangladesh and Iran signed the Cultural Exchange Program (CEP).Visiting Bangladesh cultural affairs minister Asaduzzaman Noor and his Iranian counterpart Ali Jannati signed the program on behalf of their respective parties in Tehran on Wednesday (May 13).Bangladesh and Iran had a

DHAKA: The 68th Cannes Film Festival started this year with female director Emmanuelle Bercot’s ‘Standing Tall’, shunning the usual practice of screening of a Hollywood movie.The film about a juvenile delinquent co-starring Catherine Deneuve, is only the second movie directed by a

DHAKA: The world's most important film festival is about to start in Cannes with a mix of starpower, art house cinema, Hollywood blockbusters and everything in between, though its director would be happier if the 'selfie' had never been invented.After making a selection from 1,854 films,

DHAKA: A Picasso masterpiece and a Giacometti statue smashed world records Monday for the most expensive art sold at auction, fetching more than US$179 million and US$141 million respectively in New York.Pablo Picasso oil painting, ‘The Women of Algiers (Version 0)’, sold for

DHAKA: Mother is the most precious thing on earth to everyone. But how much of this love for the mother can we really convey in our short span of life.This solid truth once again recurred to us all this evening through the track ‘Ma’ sung by the young artiste Suha Anadil Chowdhury

DHAKA: Can’t get enough of the Avengers? Many of the characters from Marvel Studio’s recent film, ‘The Avengers: Age Of Ultron’, will return in next year’s Captain America: Civil War.According to its official website, Marvel Studios has commenced principal photography for the

DHAKA: Bollywood star Salman Khan's sentence of five years in jail has been suspended by the Bombay High Court pending appeal. That means he will not go to jail Friday and will continue to be out on bail while his appeal against the lower court's order is heard by the High Court.Here are

DHAKA: The Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC) is set to organise a Musical Evening of Rabindra Sangeet by “Shurer Dhara” at the center’s auditorium at Gulshan-1 in at 6:30 pm on Saturday (May 9).The High Commission of India informed the matter through a press release in the

DHAKA: Bollywood star Salman Khan on Wednesday gets interim bail for 2 days after being sentenced to 5 years in jail in hit-and-run case.Earlier in the day, the Bollywood star was sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted by a court in Mumbai of killing a homeless man in a

DHAKA: Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC) will organize a music evening by Nirjher Chowdhury at its auditorium in city’s Gulshan area.The soiree will begin at 6:30pm on May 8.The High Commission of India issued a press release about the soiree.Nirjher Chowdhury is a promising young

DHAKA: An Indian court has sentenced Bollywood star Salman Khan to five years in jail for killing a homeless man in a 2002 hit-and-run driving incident in Mumbai.The man was among five people who were run over in the incident. The actor was charged with culpable homicide, reports

DHAKA: The book ‘In A Land Far From Home’ By Syed Mujtaba Ali translation of ‘Deshe Bideshe’ by Nazes Afroz launched at Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC) in city’s Gulshan area on Monday.Deputy High Commissioner Sandeep Chakravorty unveiled the book.Nazes Afroz, the