Entertainment Desk After a hiatus of 10 years, Sakhawat Hossain Nirob and Zakia Bari Momo, two popular faces of the Bangladeshi film industry, are bringing back their on-screen chemistry through Rafiq Shikdar’s film. Nirob, the model-turned-TV actor and Momo, the…
Entertainment Desk Daddy dearest Saif Ali Khan took his kids, Sara Ali Khan and Ibrahim Ali Khan, for a game of tennis recently. Sara avoided the photographers as the family entered a suburban gymkhana, while Ibrahim smiled for the shutterbugs…
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page told a court Wednesday he hadn’t heard a song he is accused of plagiarizing for the iconic “Stairway to Heaven” until a few years ago. Page and bandmate Robert Plant are accused of stealing the…
When the French actress Melanie Laurent read a now famous 2012 paper by leading scientists warning that the Earth’s climate was reaching a tipping point from which it may never recover, she sat down and wept. “I was pregnant, and…
Entertainment Desk Biopics of famous individuals have a habit of disgorging unpleasant memories from people’s lives. Rajkumar Hirani’s upcoming biopic on veteran Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt will be no exception. However, this seems to alarm the ageless Bollywood diva Madhuri…
The gunman who killed singer Christina Grimmie, a former contestant on the popular TV show “The Voice,” traveled to Orlando, Florida, apparently intending to attack her, police said Saturday. Armed with two handguns, ammunition and a hunting knife, the suspect,…
Entertainment Desk Actress Kareena Kapoor, who will be seen in upcoming film “Udta Punjab”, has dismissed rumours about her pregnancy. Some of the actress’s pictures had recently sparked rumours that she is pregnant. When asked if the news of motherhood…
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali made his final journey through his hometown, Louisville on Friday, as thousands of mourners along the route chanted, “Ali! Ali!” for the former heavyweight champion known simply as The Greatest. At a Muslim funeral for Ali…
Ed Sheeran accepts the award for Song of the Year for ”Thinking Out Loud” at the 58th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California February 15, 2016. Reuters Two California-based musicians are suing British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran for $20 million over…
Entertainment Desk Great British Bake Off judge Mary Berry and actress Angelina Jolie Pitt will be guest editors of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour later this month. Footballer Eniola Aluko, Scottish poet Jackie Kay and novelist Sunetra Gupta are also…
Snoop Dogg has returned to his rap roots—as well as his familiar love of marijuana—as he released a new song Tuesday and detailed his upcoming album. “Coolaid,” which will come out on July 1, will be Snoop Dogg’s first hip-hop…
The state of Minnesota on Tuesday celebrated “Prince Day,” with residents encouraged to wear the music legend’s signature color purple on what would have been his 58th birthday. Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton, in a proclamation making June 7 this year…
A huge procession and funeral will be held for Muhammad Ali on Friday to “allow anyone that is there from the world to say goodbye”, his family says. The funeral will be in Ali’s home city of Louisville, Kentucky. Ex-President…
Muhammad Ali’s doctor says the iconic boxer had been “having a tough time in the last year” before his death. The three-time world heavyweight champion, who had Parkinson’s disease for 32 years, died aged 74 from “septic shock due to…
Entertainment Desk Popular actress and model Orchita Sporshia recently spent four long hours inside a cupboard. She wasn’t trapped inside it, but did it for the sake of shooting in a play titled Rongin Didha. The shoot was carried out…
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali died of “septic shock due to unspecified natural causes”, his family has said. The three-time world heavyweight champion – one of the world’s greatest sporting figures – died on Friday night at a hospital in Phoenix,…
CNN wrote: His hands and his mouth were furiously fast. His skill as a boxer made him “The Greatest” in his mind and in the minds of many others. He antagonized opponents with his taunts, amused reporters with his boasts…
Quotes from around the world about the death of three-time heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali:
Entertainment Desk Two of the biggest names in music, Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris, have called it quits—and are trying to be amicable. A day after gossip sites reported their breakup, Harris tweeted Thursday: “The only truth here is that…
Muhammad Ali has died at the age of 74, a family spokesman has said. The former world heavyweight boxing champion, one of the world’s best-known sportsmen, had been in hospital in the US city of Phoenix in Arizona state.
Britain’s beloved cinematic singing nanny Mary Poppins will once again grace the big screens, this time with Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of the Broadway smash-hit “Hamilton”, as her sidekick, Walt Disney Co saidon Tuesday. “Mary…
Entertainment Desk If she were still alive, Marilyn Monroe would have turned 90 years old on June 1. The screen siren died of a drug overdose at age 36 in 1962, just two years out from taking home a Golden…
Entertainment Desk Hollywood star Jodie Foster is setting her sights on directing more movies as she marks half a century in the spotlight,although has no plans to completely quit acting. The 53-year-old, in Sydney to promote her latest directorial effort…
Johnny Depp’s daughter defended the Oscar-nominated star on Sunday, after his wife accused him of abuse and filed for divorce. Meanwhile, Depp’s former partner allegedly said in a letter obtained by celebrity news website TMZ that the claims being made…
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury has been hospitalised as she fell ill. She was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka on Saturday night with hypertension, said a closed aide to the Speaker. “She’s now fine,” he said wishing…
Beanibazar – Three people, including an actress, were injured in a crude bomb explosion while shooting at Mollarpur in Beanibazar upazila here on Saturday night. Film director Iftekhar Chowdhury said the incident took place around 11:30 pm when a crude…
Entertainment Desk Leonardo DiCaprio took a private jet twice to pick up an environmental award in New York – before flying back to a glitzy gala in France. The actor and environmentalist, 41, was spotted this week in Cannes Festival. But…
Dhaka – People from all walks of life paid rich tributes to national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam on his 117th birth anniversary on Wednesday. The poet’s birth anniversary programme included visit to and offering of fateha (prayer) his grave beside…
US actor Michael Jace gunned down his wife in front of their children at their Los Angeles home after taunting her over her request for a divorce, a court heard Tuesday. April Jace was able to stagger away after being…
Entertainment Desk Bhumika Chawla, the Tere Naam fame actor, is all set to make a comeback to the silver-screen after a hiatus of nine years with Luv U Alia. The 37-year-old actress said that she has never played any role…