Veteran artiste Arati Das, Kolkata’s first cabaret queen who became popular as ‘Miss Shefali’ in the 1960s and 70s, passed away due to a cardiac arrest at her residence in Sodepur in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.

Film director, producer, screenplay writer, film critic and actor Francois Roland Truffaut has made over 25 films in his career spanning the last 3 decades. Pioneering the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) movement in French films, Truffaut’s character Antoine Doinel from his autobiographical film, The 400 Blows (Le Quatre Cents Coups), was well received by the audience, both home and abroad.

Renowned artist Nazia Andaleeb Preema’s 22nd solo exhibition, Preema Donna, is underway at Nalini Kanta Bhattasali Gallery of Bangladesh National Museum (BNM).

In the era of digitalisation and augmented reality, capturing the human imagination in pages has become quite challenging.

Over the years, National Film awardee Aparna Ghose has enthralled the audience with her remarkable performances in films like Third Person Singular Number, Bhuban Majhi and Mrittika Maya. Besides acting and modelling, Aparna has also managed to keep her pace in the theatre industry with the theatre troupe, Nandikar.

Full of suspense and romance, the first teaser trailer of Poran was released on Monday. After Poramon 2 and Dohon, director Raihan Rafi is set to release his much anticipated film, Poran.

Marking the 101st birth anniversary of the eminent writer, scholar and freedom fighter Abu Rushd (1919-2010), his family honoured four noted personalities of the country. They also provided research grants to emerging scholars and writers at WVA auditorium, recently.

Rubina Akhter’s month-long solo art exhibition, Mystery & Light, is underway at Radius Centre, Bay’s Galleria, Gulshan.

Modina Jahan Rime’s Kichu Jonmo Nichok Coincident was 2018’s bestseller from Darikoma Prokashoni. Rime’s journey as a writer started in 2015 with her first novel, Insomnia.

At a press conference at the National Art Gallery’s auditorium yesterday, Co-Founder of the Samadani Art Foundation, Rajib Samdani, and Director of Samdani Art Foundation, Nadia Samdani highlighted the details of the Dhaka Art Summit (DAS) 2020.

Facebook Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg announces her engagement to the head of a consulting firm.

Bong Joon Ho with his award for Film Not in the English Language for ‘Parasite’.

Artist Dilara Begum Jolly is known for her works which touch upon themes of gender, trauma and the feminine figure. Initially trained as a painter from Government Arts College, Chattogram, and later as a printmaker from Santiniketan, Jolly has expanded her practice on various media. Her solo exhibition, Parables of the Womb, starts today at Bengal Shilpalay. In an intimate chat with The Daily Star, the artist shares her art concepts, inspiration and more.

The 34th national poetry festival, Jatiya Kabita Utsab, concluded yesterday at University of Dhaka.

Pias Majid is a renowned name in the world of Bengali literature. The poet-writer was honoured with HSBC-Kali O Kolom Young Poets and Writers Award for his contribution in the literary arena, in 2012.

Saiful Huq Omi has been documenting the lives of Rohingyas since 2009. A solo photography exhibition, In Search of The Future by Omi was arranged by UNHCR at Edge Gallery, Gulshan, recently. Steven Corliss, UNHCR Representative in Bangladesh and Masud Bin Momen, Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh were present as guests in the opening day.

The festivity of the International Children’s Film Festival Bangladesh 2020 continued as the winners were announced in the closing ceremony at the National Public Library, recently.

For the first time, Tauquir Ahmed has written a poetry book, Ekguccho Kobita, which will be released at the Ekushey Boi Mela.

A group art exhibition, titled Tribhuban (Three Worlds), is underway at Shilpangan Gallery in Lalmatia, Dhaka.

In 2011, the entire country mourned for an icon of Bangladeshi music -- Azam Khan, a man who went from liberating the country as a guerrilla fighter, to being a revolutionary in the pop music industry.