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Lydia Davis, an American author best known for her short stories, has won this year’s Man Booker International Prize.
As apart of regular film show the Bangladesh Documentary Council will screen documentary film ‘Far From Vietnam’ at Dhaka Art Center auditorium in city’s Dhanmondi area.
It’s a common enough scene, as the song has been a standard entry on the playlists of countless heavy rock bands for decades.
Creinse Limited announced that it has secured a brand license and programme license agreement with Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) Asia, a division of Viacom Inc., to initiate MTV programme syndication in Bangladesh
Noted Nazrul Sangeet singer Nashid Kamal’s music evening will be held at Dhaka’s Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre as a part of Bangladesh’s national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s 114th birth anniversary.
A guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison in The Beatles has sold for $408,000 at auction. The custom-made instrument, built in 1966 by the VOX company, was bought by an unidentified US buyer in New York.
Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest has won this year’s Eurovision song contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune ‘Only Teardrops’.
Bangladesh National Museum organises a daylong celebration on its premises in Dhaka Saturday on the occasion of International Museum Day.
Musician Bob Dylan considers himself as extremely honoured and lucky to be admitted in the US arts academy, the prestigious 115-year-old group reported by bbc and NY Daily News.
Sanjay Dutt, in a white kurta and jeans and with a red tilak on his forehead, has surrendered at a Mumbai court.
Sanjay Dutt will surrender on Thursday before a special TADA court here to undergo his remaining jail term in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, according to his lawyer.
Bollywood actress Manisha Koirala, who is undergoing treatment in New York after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer, says she is now ‘free’ from the disease and calls it her ‘rebirth’.
An evening of Nazrul songs by Ferdous Ara will be held at Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre in city’s Gulshan area on May 17.
Leonardo DiCaprio and director Baz Luhrmann are expected on the red carpet in Cannes later as their new film The Great Gatsby opens the annual film festival.
Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre in association with the State Bank of India in Bangladesh and Channel i as Media Partners will organize an Evening of Nazrul Geeti by one of Bangladesh’s most prominent exponents Salahuddin Ahmed at 6:30pm on May 18 at Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre.
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has undergone a double mastectomy to reduce her chances of getting breast cancer. The 37-year-old mother of six has explained her reasons for having the surgery in the New York Times, reports the BBC.
Film star Sanjay Dutt, who has been convicted in an arms case related to the 1993 Mumbai blasts, will have to surrender and return to jail by May 16, as ordered earlier by the Supreme Court.
Super-hero blockbuster sequel ‘Iron Man 3’ stayed on top at the US box office after it’s mega debut a week earlier.
Disney has taken control of George Lucas’ cult franchise and filming on the seventh movie in the series starts later this year.
With a few days left for actor Sanjay Dutt to surrender in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, trade sources said that though the actor has finished working on some movies, he still has a few projects pending.
As a part of the celebrations of the 152nd birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, Dhaka’s Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre will arrange a soiree of Tagore songs at its auditorium in Gulshan.
A 2013 Hollywood blockbuster movie ‘Parker’ hits Dhaka’s Star Cineplex at Basundhara City Shopping Mall.
A 2013 Hollywood blockbuster movie ‘Parker’ will be premiered at Dhaka’s Star Cineplex at Basundhara City Shopping Mall on May 9.
Theatre group called Swapnadal will stage one of its popular plays ‘Hargaj’ at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in city’s Segun Bagicha area to raise funds for the victims of the collapsed building in Savar.