River Stories’, a solo exhibition of paintings by artist Vinita Karim being held at Bengal Art Lounge at Gulshan in the city, is going on in full swing. A large number of art aficionados from across the city flocked in droves to the exhibition on Sunday, the second day of the event. High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh Pankaj Saran ...

This time singer Hasan Abidur Reza Jewel has been introduced himself with a new identity to all. Though he was familiar as a singer to all but this time is going to introduce as a photographer. On Saturday Jewel’s solo photography exhibition was inaugurated at a gallery in the city’s Gulshan area. Popular singer and music composer Ayub Bachchu was ...

The final scene of Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi’s characters in the season 6 finale of The Good Wife was reportedly filmed separately.Body doubles were employed for the single shots, and the two-shot was spliced together in post-production, reported Ace Showbiz.Julianne’s character Alicia Florrick and Archie’s character Kalinda Sharma didn’t actually share a scene together for two full seasons.

Her act as a selfless daughter, who spends more time listening to her father’s constipation tales than on her professional or marital pursuits in Piku, has garnered an ‘overwhelming’ response for actress Deepika Padukone. But the most heartening has been the response from people who have expressed a wish to ‘adopt’ her.Directed by Shoojit Sircar, Piku is an endearing father-daughter ...

Singer Selena Gomez joins the likes of Karlie Kloss, Lena Dunham, Hailee Steinfeld and Kendrick Lamar in pop star Taylor Swift upcoming music video of her latest single ‘Bad Blood.’The video premiered during the Billboard Music Awards yesterday, said The Hollywood Reporter.Gomez, 22, plays the character Arsyn. Swift shared a poster of Gomez sporting a new black hairdo while holding ...

English actress Michelle Keegan has been named the sexiest woman in the world by British men’s magazine FHM. The 27-year-old actress is best known for her roles on the BBC series “Ordinary Lies” and the long-running British soap opera “Coronation Street.” Her “Coronation Street” character Tina McIntyre was the show’s first character to act as a surrogate, according to IMDB. ...

The chances of having a heart attack, stroke or dying young may be hidden in the palm of the hand, a study suggests. A trial on nearly 140,000 people in 14 countries, published in the Lancet, suggests grip strength is better than blood pressure at predicting risk. The international research team said it would be a “simple, inexpensive” tool for ...

The World Health Organisation is setting up a $100 million contingency fund to ensure that the UN agency will not be “overwhelmed” by a major crisis again as it was with Ebola. The WHO and Director-General Margaret Chan have come under fire for their slow response to West Africa’s Ebola epidemic, which began in Guinea in December 2013 but was ...

A new study has revealed that drinking fat-free or low-fat milk may delay the progression of osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. The research also found that women who ate cheese saw an increase in knee OA progression, while yogurt did not impact OA progression in men or women. Lead author of the study, Bing Lu, said that milk consumption plays ...

Evidence backing the notion that electronic cigarettes are effective for long-term smoking cessation is lacking, finds a new study. Lead author Riyad al-Lehebi of the University of Toronto said that there were several other smoking cessation aids available that had more robust evidence base supporting their efficacy and safety, than e-cigarettes. The meta-analysis included four studies of the efficacy and ...