With great reverence we remember Khan Ataur Rahman, famously known as Khan Ata, a film director, actor, producer, screenplay writer, music composer, singer and an important name in the history of Bangladeshi films, who was born on this very day in the year of 1928 in Ramkantapur village of Manikganj district.

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, who has achieved global visibility in the recent past, has topped a list of 50 'Sexiest Asian Women on the Planet' compiled by a British magazine.

Even today a woman’s life revolves around a patriarchal society where she her voice is lost in decisions that are already catered for her by someone else because they know ‘what’s best for her life’.

The fourth edition of the Dhaka Comicon, one of the pioneering pop culture conventions of the country, returns this weekend, from December 10-12 at the Jamuna Future Park, and it will bring in new elements for fans. This year's event is being sponsored by Bikroy.com.

The scenes from the refugee camps in West Bengal in 1971 are etched forever in Mustafa Manwar's mind: grim, distressed faces and a deathly silence which enveloped everyone, including the children. “They were getting basic necessities such as food and clothes but laughter, which is crucial for human beings, was missing. Even the children did not play together. The trauma was tremendous because of the inhumanity of the Pakistani army. So I thought I would have puppet plays to boost the refugees' morale and bring back laughter in their lives,” says Manwar, puppeteer, artist, director and producer of TV programmes and author of screenplays.

Bollywood actress Rani Mukerji, who married film-maker Aditya Chopra last year ending years of speculation about their relationship status, has given birth to a baby girl.

Rock band Rush's drummer, lyricist Neil Peart mentions his retirement from musical career in an interview.

An image of a portrait underneath the Mona Lisa is found beneath the existing painting using reflective light technology, according to a French scientist.

Stars from a variety of genres -- from Willie Nelson and Eric Church, to Steven Tyler and John Fogerty, to hip-hop group The Roots and Sheryl Crow -- gathered in New York City Saturday night to tape the upcoming AMC special Imagine: John Lennon 75th Birthday Concert.

His was not the dulcet tones of a father, but one inflected with grit and power. His was a voice that never failed to assume command over his audience.

With great reverence we remember Tareque Masud, the “Cinema Feriwalla”, a leading Bangladeshi independent filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and lyricist who was born on this very day in the year of 1956.

A private plane carrying Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman makes an emergency landing after it blows a tyre on take-off from Clarksdale, Mississippi, but the star and his pilot were unhurt.

A romantic drama about Barack Obama's first date with future wife Michelle is among the titles set to be screened at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

Purnima, the once-busy actress of the silver screen, has been away from the glitz and glam of the filmdom for a while. She has sporadically been doing TV plays and modeling, though.

In his simple trademark kurta pyjama, Qayyum Chowdhury was as imposing as a Roman emperor in a toga and laurels. In the '50s...

Ace Argentine filmmaker Pablo Cesar is set to direct a film based on the life of Rabindranath Tagore, and wants Naseeruddin Shah to play the poet's role.

The timbre of sound that the santoor can produce is unique, and in terms of ornamentation of notes and composition, my father has

Chairman of Bengal Foundation, Abul Khair is a man of art and culture.

The new trailer for Captain America: Civil War has dropped, showing the first footage of the true-blue hero: Captain America, breaking from the powers that be, and turning against the man in the metal suit: Iron Man.

“Music is my love. And because it is my love, music has become my religion. When I play music, that is my best yoga, the best meditation, the best prayer.”