DHAKA: Miss South Africa Rolene Strauss won Miss World 2014 title on Sunday in a a beauty pageant in London.“South Africa, this is for you,” she said in an interview after the pageant. “I’m so proud of you, and I’m proud to be your representative.”Strauss, 22, inherited the

DHAKA: British soul singer Sam Smith has won four Grammy Awards in the US, including the prestigious prizes for record and song of the year and best new artist.Smith was rewarded for being the only solo artist to sell more than a million albums in both the UK and US in 2014.Pharrell

DHAKA: Alliance Française de Dhaka will organize the solo painting exhibition titled ‘Alluvial Rhythm’ by Kalidas Karmakar in its La Galerie in city’s Dhanmondi area.The inaugural ceremony of the exhibition will held at 5:00pm on Monday. French ambassador Sophie Aubert will be

DHAKA: Nina Davuluri, who was 24 when she became the first Miss America of Indian origin last year, has come a long way since the night of her win.Although she’s been hard at work to promote cultural diversity even after her year-long reign ended, the racial slurs that stemmed from

DHAKA: The live concert of Indian Singer Arijit Singh started at Jamuna Future Park in city on Friday night. The singer arrived on stage at 8:40pm to perform in “Olitalia Arijit Singh Live”. Concert’s organizer E-maker’s managing director Nayem Ashraf Roman told banglanews that

DHAKA: Indian Singer Arijit Singh arrived in Dhaka on Friday morning to perform in “Arijit Singh Live in Concert” in city’s Jamuna Future Park. Concert’s organizer E-maker’s managing director Nayem Ashraf Roman said to banglanews that the concert will begin around 7:30pm.

DHAKA: Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones are among a host of British stars in contention for the 2015 Golden Globe awards. Cumberbatch, Redmayne and fellow Briton David Oyelowo make up three of the nominees for best actor in a drama. Felicity Jones, Redmayne’s

DHAKA: A mega international dance festival, with the participation of 500 artistes from 300 countries, will be held in Bangladesh.The festival, first time of its kind, will be organized in November 2015.Bangladesh Committee of Federation of International Dance Festival (FIDAF) informed

DHAKA: French movie ‘Lacombe, Lucien’ will be screened as a celebration of Jean Patrick Modiano’s receiving Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014.The screening will be held at Alliance Française de Dhaka auditorium in city’s Dhanmondi area at 6:00pm on December 10.The movie,

DHAKA: Five recitation albums by Nazmul Ahsan will be released at Chhayanaut auditorium in city’s Dhanmondi area on December 11. The ceremony, to be followed by the third recitation program ‘Tomakei Jeno Bhalobasiachhi’ by the artiste, will be held at 5:30pm. Noted cultural

DHAKA: Eminent actor Khalil Ullah Khan, popularly known as Khalil, passed away at a city hospital on Sunday morning due to old age complications. He was 8o.  Khalil was born on 2 February in 1934 in Sylhet. In his long acting career, Khalil earned numerous recognitions and awards

DHAKA: Veteran actor Dilip Kumar, who is suffering from severe cold and cough, was on Saturday taken to the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai, a close friend of the family said. "He has been taken to Lilavati as he has cold and cough for past two-three days. He might be in hospital for a

DHAKA: Director John Woo said that he had beaten throat cancer and had no thoughts of retiring any time soon. ‘I have recovered completely... I see how precious life is. I'm grateful to be making movies and will continue to make another five to 10 more movies,’ Woo, 68, told Life! on

DHAKA: The “Arijit Sing Live in Concert” has been deferred to December 12 as the singer is suffering from eye infection.The Concert was scheduled to be held at Jamuna Future Park in the city’s Baridhara area Friday afternoon. The Concert will start on the same time and venue on

DHAKA: Actress Priyanka Chopra has been named the world’s sexiest Asian woman in a poll by a Britain-based newspaper. The former beauty queen has thanked her well-wishers for their support. The Fashion star has topped the top 50 list in an annual poll conducted by the Eastern Eye

DHAKA: ‘Spectre’ will be the title of the 24th official James Bond film, its makers have announced. Director Sam Mendes revealed the title at a launch event at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, where principal photography is due to begin on Monday. Daniel Craig will play 007 for

DHAKA: The Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh, in cooperation with the Goethe Institut Dhaka, will organize a three-day Swiss Film Festival from December 7 in city.Three Swiss films will be screened at the Goethe-Institut Auditorium in Dhanmondi during the festival. The festival

DHAKA: A crime drama set in 1980s New York has been named film of the year by the influential National Board of Review. JC Chandor’s ‘A Most Violent Year’ also picked up acting awards for its stars Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain from the New York-based collective of film

DHAKA: US singer Lady Gaga has revealed in a radio interview on The Howard Stern Show that she was raped at 19.Host Stern had quizzed her during the Tuesday interview about the meaning behind her 2013 song ‘Swine’, to which she replied:‘I went through some horrific things that

DHAKA: PSY’s “Gangnam Style” has been viewed so many times now that YouTube had to upgrade its system in order to display it properly. That’s because the infectious dance hit has been watched more than the maximum number able to be displayed under a 32-bit integer system or