DHAKA: ‘Trolls’ has gone straight in at the top of the UK box office, beating Tom Cruise’s latest ‘Jack Reacher’ film. The animated children’s comedy, which features Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake among its voice cast, took $6.59m on its opening weekend, reports the

DHAKA: Paul Beatty has become the first US author to win the Man Booker Prize with his racial satire The Sellout. His novel tells the story of a young black man who tries to reinstate slavery and racial segregation in a suburb of Los Angeles, reports the BBC. Amanda Foreman, chair

DHAKA: Kim Kardashian West has dropped a court case against a website that claimed she staged an armed robbery in Paris. Her lawyer said the two sides had resolved the issue. The reality star said she would take US celebrity gossip site MediaTakeOut to court but has dropped the case

DHAKA: Steve Dillon, the legendary British comic book artist, known for his work on Preacher, Punisher, and 2000AD’s Judge Dredd has died aged 54. His brother Glyn confirmed the death on Twitter, saying his “big brother and hero” had died in New York City. Dillon was a

DHAKA: Bob Dylan’s failure to acknowledge his Nobel Prize in literature is ‘impolite and arrogant’, according to a member of the body that awards it. The 75-year-old singer was named the shock winner of the prize last week. But all efforts by the Swedish Academy to contact him

DHAKA: A two-day ‘Bangal Festival’ will kick off in Washington DC of USA on May 13 in 2017. The Bangla Festival adhoc committee cultural and artist management chairman Mridul Rahman and Bangladesh representative of adhoc committee and its coordinator Saimon Zakaria made the

DHAKA: Popular Bangladeshi performer-cum director Tauqir Ahmed’s film ‘Oggaytonama’ was honored with Special Mention Award in Religion Today Film Festival in Italy’s Trento. The festival, started on October 7. The movie depicts the subhuman life of Bangladeshi expatriates in

DHAKA: JK Rowling has hinted the character Albus Dumbledore will feature in future films in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series. The author has already revealed she has planned scripts for a total of five movies in the franchise, the first of which is released next

DHAKA: Singer Janet Jackson has officially confirmed she is expecting her first child, at the age of 50. She told People magazine: “We thank God for our blessing”, and posed for a picture with her growing baby bump. Speculation about her pregnancy surfaced in April when she

DHAKA: The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. He grew up in a Jewish middle-class family in the city of Hibbing.

DHAKA: Prince’s infamous “vault” of unreleased music is being shopped around record labels with a price tag of $35m, according to US reports. The trove contains songs like Rebirth of the Flesh, Electric Intercourse and Extraloveable - which have been widely bootlegged, but never

DHAKA: US reality TV star Kim Kardashian West is suing a celebrity gossip website for claiming that she faked being the victim of a robbery in Paris last week. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for defamation and names both the site, MediaTakeout, and its founder, Fred

DHAKA: US actress Shailene Woodley has been arrested during a protest in North Dakota against a huge oil pipeline project that will cross four states. BBC reported that the Divergent star was arrested at a construction site as she was broadcasting the protest, which involved about 200

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi movie “Matir Projar Deshe” won the Best Film award in South Asian International Film Festival held in Chicago, USA. Director Imtiaz Ahmed Bizon received the award on October 9. “Matir Projar Deshe” took part in the competition with 14 movies as the only

DHAKA: The Girl on the Train has steamed ahead of its rivals to top the US box office on its opening weekend. The thriller, starring Emily Blunt as an alcoholic trying to solve the mystery of a missing person, took $24.7m - with 68% of the audience made up of women. Last weeks’

DHAKA: Oscar-winning Polish film director Andrzej Wajda has died aged 90. Polish Filmmakers’ Association said he made more than 40 feature films in a career spanning 60 years, reports the BBC. Many of his films - including Kanal, Man of Marble, Man of Iron and Katyn - were

DHAKA: Oboyob Natyadal will stage ‘Pheriwala’ at Studio Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in city’s Segun Bagicha area on Tuesday (October 11). The show will begin at 7:00pm on the day. Directed by Shahidul H Khan and scripted by Asaduzzaman, the play will be

DHAKA: Kim Kardashian West was held at gunpoint by five men in her Paris hotel room Sunday night and robbed, French officials said. A spokesperson for Kardashian West said the celebrity was “badly shaken but physically unharmed”, reports CNN. A spokesperson for the French

DHAKA: Kim Kardashian West was held at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room Sunday night. Quoting her spokesperson, CNN reports, “Kim Kardashian West was held up at gunpoint inside her Paris hotel room this evening, by two armed masked men dressed as police officers. She is badly shaken

DHAKA: Major cinemas in Pakistan have banned Indian films in what they call an act of solidarity with their country’s armed forces. The film boycotts have been announced in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, reports the BBC. The move follows a rise in military tensions between the two