DHAKA: Miss Colombia Paulina Vega has been crowned Miss Universe, beating out first runner-up Miss USA Nia Sanchez and contestants from more than 80 other countries at Sunday’s pageant in Miami.Vega, a 22-year-old student of business administration from Barranquilla, Colombia, said

DHAKA: Sunny Leone has always stunned fans with her looks and charm. Most of her fans have seen her in the bold avatar, but they surely didn’t see this one.She, however, recently posted a pic from her childhood on Instagram. According to the Vegmomos, in the pic she looks much cuter

DHAKA: A weeklong International Children's Film Festival will begin on Saturday in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet.Children's Film Society Bangladesh will organize the festival with the slogan of ‘Future in Frames’.According to the organizers, they will screen films and documentaries

DHAKA: A music soiree was held at Alliance Française in city’s Dhanmondi area on Tuesday evening.Ghazal singer Manzurul Islam Khan presented songs based on Hindustani classical music at the event.Eminent poet Asad Chowdhury was present as chief guest while lyricist Shahidullah Farayzi

DHAKA: Country’s one of the largest news portals banglanews24.con on Sunday published a music video titled ‘Bangladesh’ to uphold the spirit of cricket world cup and inspire the national team and their fans as well.Popular singers Arfin Rumey and Kornia sang the song in the music

DHAKA: The president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts says she would like to see more diversity in Oscar nominations, after a row about this year’s nominees.All 20 contenders in the main acting categories are white and there are no female nominees in the directing or writing

FROM BAITUL MUKARRAM PREMISES: The fourth namaz-e-janaza of ‘Ora Egaro Jon’ famed filmmaker Chashi Nazrul Islam was held after the Zohar prayers at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in city.Earlier, body of this national award winning filmmaker was brought to the mosque at 12:27pm

DHAKA: Richard Linklater film ‘Boyhood’ has taken top honors at the Golden Globe awards.The movie, which took 12 years to make, won best film drama, with Linklater named best director and Patricia Arquette best supporting actress.British actor Eddie Redmayne won best actor in a

DHAKA: Anita Ekberg, star of ‘La Dolce Vita’, has died aged 83, according to several reports in the Italian media.The Swedish-born actress was branded a ‘sex goddess’ for her performance in Federico Fellini’s iconic movie.A former Miss Sweden, she also appeared in films such as

DHAKA: Ekushey Padak and National Film Award winner noted filmmaker Chashi Nazrul Islam passed away at a city hospital early Sunday. He was 73. Nazrul, who had been suffering from Liver cancer, breathed his last at Labaid Specialized Hospital of the city around 6:00am. Nazrul’s

DHAKA: Ekushey Padak and National Film Award winner noted filmmaker Chashi Nazrul Islam is on life support as his health condition deteriorated Saturday.His younger daughter Anni Islam told banglanews that her father, who has been suffering from cancer, was earlier shifted to

DHAKA: Rod Taylor and actress Rhonda Fleming leaving the premiere of 'Lolita' at LA's Beverly Theatre in 1960 Rod Taylor with actress Rhonda Fleming. Australian actor Rod Taylor, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller The Birds, has died aged 84, according to reports in the

DHAKA: Suffering from cancer, Ekushey Padak and National Film Award winner noted film maker Chashi Nazrul Islam’s health turned critical again.Akram Hossain, Doctor attending to him said that the condition of the 76-year-old director, admitted to Lab Aid Hospital in the capital for

DHAKA: The people have spoken and superheroes continue to rule the movie pack, as Captain America, Iron Man and Batman were among the top winners at the People’s Choice awards on Wednesday.Iron Man and Avengers star Robert Downey Jr was named favourite movie actor for the fourth

DHAKA: The double Oscar winning Indian composer AR Rahman is celebrating his birthday Tuesday.He literally stormed into the film industry with his fresh music in Roja in 1992 and since then there was no looking back.Winner of double Oscars under the same category, AR Rahman is the first

DHAKA: Actress Cameron Diaz and rocker Benji Madden’s wedding on Monday night have refreshed rumours that she is pregnant.The wedding came two weeks after their reported engagement before Christmas, and they have been dating for only seven months, it is reported.They ‘were married

DHAKA: Theatre group Palakar will arrange the show of ‘Banglar Mati Banglar Jol’ based on Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Chhinnapatra’ at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in city’s Segun Bagicha area.The play, scripted by Syed Shamsul Haq and directed by

DHAKA: Internationally acclaimed art critic, President of International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Marek Bartelik, is in Dhaka on a two-week visit and is scheduled to deliver his second lecture of a series.Marek Bartelik will deliver the lecture at the Berlin Hall of Goethe

DHAKA: Little Jimmy Dickens, a diminutive singer-songwriter known for his sense of humor and as the oldest cast member of the Grand Ole Opry, has died at 94.Dickens died Friday at a Nashville-area hospital of cardiac arrest after suffering a stroke on Christmas Day, Opry spokeswoman

DHAKA: British human rights lawyer Amal Clooney claimed in an interview published on Saturday that she was threatened with arrest in Egypt after identifying flaws in the judicial system that later contributed to the convictions of three Al-Jazeera journalists.Clooney, a rights lawyer