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Actress Shomi Kaiser was arrested from a residence at Uttara in the capital early Wednesday. She was arrested around 12:30am during a drive, said Rounak Jahan, deputy commissioner of the Uttara Division Police, said. The drive was conducted on a tip-off and the arrest was made at a house on Road 6 of Sector 4, Rounak also said. Following a ...

A court in Dhaka has sent Kaushik Hossain Taposh, chairman of Gaan Bangla TV, to jail after showing him arrested in a case filed over an attempt to murder businessman Ishtiaque Mahmud during the quota reform movement on July 18. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Saifuzzaman passed the order after police produced Taposh before the court and pleaded to place him ...

Music industry titan Quincy Jones, who collaborated with Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra, died at the age of 91, US media reported Monday. His death was confirmed by his publicist, Arnold Robinson, in a statement that did not specify a cause, US media reported.

Immigration, abortion and the eternal search for the American Dream make up the ingredients of “La Cocina,” a new film that examines the United States’ most divisive issues through the microcosm of a New York restaurant kitchen. The tense, claustrophobic drama stars Oscar nominee Rooney Mara (“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”) as an American waitress at a bustling Times ...

Will the real Timothee Chalamet please stand up? Even the Hollywood star’s most convincing doppelgangers, gathered in New York for a look-alike contest, did a double-take when the man himself swung by their festivities Sunday. Around 20 young men, complete with chiseled jawlines and distinctive waves of walnut-colored hair, had gathered along with a massive crowd of spectators in New ...

The dead body of Moni Kishore, a popular singer of the 90s, has been recovered from his Rampura residence in the capital. Police recovered the body at about 11:30PM on Saturday from his house behind Rampura TV centre. Rampura Police Station SI Khan Abdur Rahman said, “At 10PM, owner of the house called national emergency service 999 and after that, ...

Bollywood star Alia Bhatt’s latest film “Jigra” earned Rs 4.55 crore net on its opening day at the domestic box office, the makers announced on Saturday. Released in theatres across the country in Hindi and Telugu on Friday, the movie is directed by Vasan Bala, known for “Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota” and “Monica, O My Darling”. It is produced ...

Ekushey Padak-winning television and theater actor Engineer Jamal Uddin Hossain has passed away. He was 81. The veteran actor breathed his last at a hospital at Calgary in Canada at about 8:00pm on Friday (local time and 8:00am Bangladesh time), according to family sources. Jamal Uddin Hossain, a member of the Nagorik Natya Sampradaya, started acting in theater in the ...

Muhammed Shahed Rahman :   Baul Shah Abdul Karim Folk Festival-2024 was held in London with the participation of more than half a hundred artists in a splendid atmosphere. It was organized for the first time by Aryan Film and Globe TV at the Brady Arts Center in London. The program was hosted by UK BD TV cultural director and ...

  “A Tupperware of Ashes” at the National Theatre is a moving and thought-provoking exploration of family, identity, and South Asian heritage. Written by Tanika Gupta and directed by Pooja Ghai, the play stars the remarkable talents of Meera Syal (Queenie), Shobna Gulati (Indrani) Zubin Varla (Ameet) who breathe life into this poignant story about the complex relationships between British ...