DHAKA: Bollywood’s popular actress Rani Mukherjee has tied the knot with Aditya Chopra, son of late iconic filmmaker Yash Chopra, according to Indian media.The wedding--a private affair--took place in Italy on April 21.The couple had reportedly been dating since a long time with

DHAKA: Country Music Star and cancer survivor Kevin Sharp has passed away at the age of 43, reports The Huffington Post on Monday.They said Kevin Sharp, a country music singer who recorded multiple chart-topping songs and survived a well-publicized battle with cancer, has died. He was

DHAKA: Actress Brooklyn Decker turned her back on modelling as soon as she landed her first major role, because she didn’t feel like an elegant beauty.The sexy star, who is married to tennis ace Andy Roddick, admits she was too clumsy to make it on the world’s catwalks and, despite

DHAKA: Marisa Tomei thinks she’s too old to play Lady Gaga in a movie.The ‘The Wrestler’ actress was flattered to hear the ‘Applause’ hitmaker would like her to play the 28-year-old singer if there is ever a film made about her life, but doesn’t think she is the right person

DHAKA: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel laureate whose novels and short stories exposed tens of millions of readers to Latin America’s passion, superstition, violence and inequality, died at home in Mexico City around midday, according to people close to his family. He was 87. Widely

DHAKA: Star Cineplex arranged the Dhaka-premiere of a latest Hollywood movie ‘Divergent’ at its halls at Bashundhara City Shopping Mall in city’s Panthapath area.Inaugural screening of this adventure, romance and sci-fi movie was held on Thursday evening.The movie will be screened

DHAKA: The soundtrack to Disney’s ‘Frozen’ has spent a 10th non-consecutive week at the top of the Billboard 200 chart.The album becomes one of only 11 albums to have topped the US chart for 10 weeks or longer, reports the BBC.It has now also equalled ‘The Lion King’s

DHAKA: Star Cineplex will arrange the Dhaka-premiere of a latest Hollywood movie ‘Divergent’ at its halls at Bashundhara City Shopping Mall in city’s Panthapath area.Inaugural screening of this adventure, romance and sci-fi movie will be held at 6:30pm on Thursday.Divergent,

DHAKA: A three-day ‘Bangladesh Cartoon Fest 2014’ is drawing the attention of the viewers at Drik gallery in city’s Dhanmondi area.Around 100 cartoons and illustrations, done by forty professional and amateur cartoonists, are on display at the festival, organized by Bangladesh

DHAKA: ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ took the prize for best film at the MTV Movie Awards, as well as best male and female performance for actors Josh Hutcherson and Jennifer Lawrence.Johnny Depp gave the popcorn-shaped award to two of the film`s stars, Hutcherson and Sam

DHAKA: ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ held off a strong debut by ‘Rio 2’ at North America’s box office, muscling out the wild menagerie to retain top spot.Data showed Monday, The Straits Times publishes this report on Tuesday.The latest big-screen blockbuster featuring

DHAKA: People of different ethnicities have been celebrating the first day of Baishakh since time immemorial. This traditional event is called in different names in different nations, mostly in south and south-east Asia.The first day of Baishakh, called Pahela Baishakh, is considered as

DHAKA: Country’s one of the popular theatre groups Palakar will celebrate its 12th founding anniversary by arranging theatre shows under the title of ‘Ghate Ghate Palakar’.The celebration program will begin in the morning on the first day of Bangla New Year that falls on April 14.On

DHAKA: Mintu Dey’s second solo exhibition titled ‘Nature out of colour & water’ is being held at Dhaka Art Center in city’s Dhanmondi area.Liberation war affairs ministry secretary KH Masud Siddiqui inaugurated the exhibition as chief guest Thursday evening.Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir,

DHAKA: Mintu Dey’s second solo exhibition titled ‘Nature out of colour & water’ is being held at Dhaka Art Center in city’s Dhanmondi area.Liberation war affairs ministry secretary KH Masud Siddiqui inaugurated the exhibition as chief guest Thursday evening.Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir,

DHAKA: Bengal Shilpalaya will celebrate Bangla New Year with a three-day Baishakhi Utsab on its premises in city’s Dhanmondi area.The festival, to feature music, recitation and instrumental, will begin at 6:00pm on April 13, also the day of Chaitra Sangkranti.The first day’s program

RANGAMATI: The three-day Baisabi Utsab, the prime traditional festival of indigenous people of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), began in the three hill districts through floating flowers in rivers Saturday morning.The hilly towns and villages of the three districts – the Rangamati,

DHAKA: Mintu Dey’s second solo exhibition titled ‘Nature out of colour & water’ will be held at Dhaka Art Center in city’s Dhanmondi area.Liberation war affairs ministry secretary KH Masud Siddiqui will inaugurate the exhibition as chief guest at 5:30pm on April 11.Quazi Sajjad

DHAKA: In the hope that the stigma attached to child sexual abuse in India is lifted, Bollywood actress Kalki Koechlin spoke out about her own experience.‘The reason you haven’t heard about it is that I don’t like to talk about it, for me it’s not a one day headline, it’s

DHAKA: ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ earned $96m in its opening weekend in the US, claiming the top spot and a new record.The sequel to the 2011 original film about the Marvel superhero, starring Chris Evans, toppled biblical epic ‘Noah’, which stars Russell Crowe.Its