DHAKA: Four independent films on the theme of peace and tolerance in Bangladesh were screened at a film festival at the permanent campus of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) at Bashundhara residential area in city.Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) and University of

DHAKA: Dame Helen Mirren has been named best actress in a play at the Tony theatre awards in New York.She took home the prize for her portrayal of the Queen in ‘The Audience’, reports the BBC.Dame Helen, a previous Oscar-winner for The Queen, accepted the award saying, ‘Your

DHAKA: K-pop Contest 2015 was held first time in Bangladesh organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea on Saturday.Anika Saiara Ali won the contest by his wonderful dance with the song Girl’s Generation.Second Winners are two siblings Yeo Farin and Yeo Farah who danced with the

DHAKA: Star Cineplex arranged a special premiere show of Hollywood action, drama and thriller movie ‘San Andreas’ at its hall at Bashundhara City Shopping Mall in city’s Panthapath area.The show was held on Thursday evening.Screening of the movie will be held 11:00am, 1:30pm, 4:00pm

DHAKA: Star Cineplex will arrange the special premiere show of Hollywood action, drama and thriller movie ‘San Andreas’ at its hall at Bashundhara City Shopping Mall in city’s Panthapath area.The movie will have its Dhaka premiere at 6:30pm on Thursday.‘San Andreas’, a 2015

DHAKA: Television personality Kim Kardashian is pregnant with her second child with rapper Kanye West.The mother of one confirmed the news in a promotional video clip on for her reality TV show on Sunday.‘I just got the blood test back and I am pregnant!’ Kardashian, 34, told her

DHAKA: The Sri Lankan refugee drama won Cannes top honor, the Palme d’Or and Hou Hsiao-Hsien of ‘The Assassin’ was named the best director for this year.Full list of Cannes awards is given below:Palme d’Or‘Dheepan’, directed by Jacques AudiardGrand Prix‘Son of Saul’,

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