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Veteran Bengali actor Anjana Bhowmick passed away on Saturday morning following a prolonged illness, according to the Indian Express newspaper. The renowned thespian was admitted to a hospital in south Kolkata on Friday night due to respiratory problems, Hindustan Times reported, mentioning that she was 79 years old at the time of her passing. Bhowmick, who was the mother of ...

Spain’s glittering Goya film awards ceremony, which takes place Saturday, looks set to be overshadowed by allegations of sexual assault directed at an independent Spanish filmmaker, reports AFP, from Madrid. On the eve of the ceremony, actor Sigourney Weaver, who is to be honoured at the event, addressed the affair at a news conference. Saturday night’s ceremony, which will see ...

Noted actor Ahmed Rubel passed away. He was 55. Director Nurul Alam Atique confirmed the death news on Wednesday evening. The reason behind his death could not be known immediately. Meanwhile, Ahmed Rubel was on his way to the special screening of a film directed by Nurul Alam Atique on Wednesday evening. Rubel was born on May 3, 1968, in ...

Some actresses want to become members of the national parliament from reserved seats for women as they have collected nomination papers from Awami League on Tuesday. A total of seven actresses collected nomination papers from the party office on the 23 Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital’s Gulistan. Among the aspirants, there were Apu Bishwas, Nipun Akter, Syeda Kamrun Nahar Shahnoor, ...

Pop superstar Taylor Swift set another music industry record on Sunday, winning the Grammy award for album of the year for an unprecedented fourth time in an honor roll dominated by women. Swift, now in the middle the world’s highest-grossing concert tour, also announced she would release a new album in April. The 34-year-old won album of the year for ...

Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s timeless classic film ‘Black,’ starring Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukerji, which still resonates with audiences, completed 19 years today since its release. On the 19th anniversary of the film, the makers and star cast celebrated the first-ever OTT release. Taking to X, Big B treated fans with the news and wrote, “It’s been 19 years since ...

Poonam Pandey, an Indian model and reality TV star, has announced that she hasn’t died of cervical cancer. Her announcement on Instagram came a day after the model’s manager announced that she had died of cervical cancer, on Friday. “I am alive. I didn’t die of cervical cancer. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about the hundreds and thousands of ...

Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas been forced to leave their 20 million-dollar LA home. As per reports, the couple, along with their two-year-old daughter, Malti Marie Chopra Jonas, has moved to another property. It’s unclear when they’ll return, but their current home is unoccupied and not rented. The LA mansion, featuring seven bedrooms and various amenities, faced problems like mould ...

Musicians and critics alike have long accused Grammy voters of ignoring the work of female artists — but this year, it’s highly probable that women will take home the night’s top prizes. At Sunday’s gala, seven of eight of nominees in the Album and Record of the Year categories are women or gender fluid, among them Taylor Swift, SZA and ...

Adele has announced four concerts in a specially-built stadium in Munich this summer – an idea she described as “a bit random, but still fabulous!” The shows will take place in an 80,000-capacity open-air venue in the German city on 2, 3, 9 and 10 August. It will be the first time the singer has performed in mainland Europe since ...