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Actress and former parliament member Suborna Mustafa has been stopped at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, preventing her from travelling to Bangkok for medical treatment. The incident occurred in the morning today, Saturday. A source from Suborna Mustafa’s family confirmed the news. The source stated that Suborna Mustafa was accompanied by her husband director Badrul Anam Saud. After arriving at the ...

Two decades after scoring a surprise holiday season global hit with “Love Actually”, British filmmaker Richard Curtis is bidding to repeat the trick with his first foray into animation. The 68-year-old writer and director has co-adapted his own trilogy of children’s books, and commandeered longtime friend Ed Sheeran into contributing an original song, to bring “That Christmas” to the big ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   The rich maritime heritage of South Asian Lascars, especially Bengali sailors, resonated through the historic Cutty Sark as Bengali folk music and traditional sea shanties came together at this year’s Sea Shanty Festival on 23 November. Local schoolchildren from Lucas Vale Primary School in Deptford took centre stage, performing a Bengali river boat racing song they ...

Marius Borg Høiby, the eldest son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has been arrested in Oslo on suspicion of rape, Norwegian police reported. The 27-year-old, who is the stepson of Crown Prince Haakon, was taken into custody on Monday night under a preliminary charge. Authorities allege that Borg Høiby engaged in sexual intercourse with someone who was “unconscious or for ...

The first song and official trailer of Dhallywood superstar Shakib Khan– starrer movie “Dorod” have been published. However, the Anonno Mamun-directed movie is set to hit the theatres on Friday. The film’s song was released in two languages “Ei Bhasao” (Bengali) and “Jism Mein Tere” (Hindi) released simultaneously on Monday. Balam and Konal have lent their voice to the Bengali ...

Taylor Swift led the way at the 2024 MTV Europe Music Awards in Manchester on Sunday, picking up four awards on a night dominated by female artists, including Tyla and Sabrina Carpenter, reports AFP. The ceremony’s 30th edition, which brought the biggest names in world music to northwest England, saw Swift take home trophies for best artist, best live, best ...

Private television channel, Gaan Bangla’s chairman Koushik Hossain Taposh and actress Shomi Kaiser have been sent to jail by a court in an attempt to murder case filed with Utatra East Police Station. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate GM Farhan Ishtiaque passed the order on Saturday (November 9). Earlier they were brought at court by police. Then investigation officer (IO) of the ...

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has received a death threat. He received a threat over a call. It is also said that a case has been registered at Bandra Police Station, in Mumbai. A leading news platform of India News18 has learned that a resident of Raipur, Chhattisgarh, named Faizan had made the threatening call. Sources added that a Mumbai ...

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 ...