DHAKA: British singer Sting is to reopen the Bataclan music venue in Paris the day before the first anniversary of the attack that killed 90 concertgoers. The former Police frontman will perform there on Saturday (November 12). He said he wanted to “remember and honour those who

KOLKATA: A two-day program on the occasion of legendary Bangla folksinger Abbasuddin Ahmed’s birth anniversary will begin in Indian state West Bengal’s capital Kolkata on November 4. Bangladesh deputy high commission and Abbasuddin Smaran Samiti will jointly organize the event.

DHAKA: The 3-day Dhaka International Folk Festival will kick off at Bangladesh Army Stadium in city on November 10. Organizers of the festival disclosed the information in a press conference held at a city hotel on Sunday (October 30). The festival will remain open from 6:00pm to

DHAKA: Elvis Presley has broken the record for the most number one albums by a solo artist. The late singer’s new album The Wonder Of You has beaten competition from Lady Gaga and Michael Buble to become his 13th album to top the chart, reports the BBC. Before now, Elvis and

US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan says he accepts his Nobel Prize in literature, ending a silence since being awarded the prize earlier this month. He said the honour had left him “speechless”, the Nobel Foundation said in a statement, reports the BBC. The foundation said it had

DHAKA: Documentary film ‘Nasima’ focused on the life of the first woman surfer in Bangladesh who won four consecutive times in National Championship. The film also gives the pictorial image of her surfing life as well as the surfing condition in Cox’s Bazar and other areas. It

DHAKA: The 3-day Dhaka International Folk Festival is scheduled to be held at Bangladesh Army Stadium in city from November 10. A press conference on this regard will be held in city’s The Westin Hotel on Sunday morning (October 30). The festival will remain open from 6:00pm to

DHAKA: A youth was detained from Dhaka on Wednesday night (October 26) for his alleged involvement in piracy of a Bengali movie ‘Aynabazi’. The detainee was identified as Atiqur Rahman Ovi.  DMP deputy commissioner (public relations) Masudur Rahman told Banglanews that a cyber

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