Culture

India’s Manushi Chillar on Saturday won the Miss World 2017 title at a glittering event in Sanya, ending 16 years of drought for India at the international pageant. Priyanka Chopra was the last winner from India...

Frank Castle, the vigilante sniper assassin at the center of Netflix Inc’s new Marvel series “The Punisher,” is neither a hero nor a villain. He is a man in pain. In “The Punisher,” launching all episodes...

Veteran French rocker Johnny Hallyday, who has been battling lung cancer for several months, has been hospitalised with breathing problems, his entourage confirmed Friday. Celebrity magazine Voici had reported that France’s answer to Elvis Presley checked...

Amazon has scrapped plans to launch an online streaming service bundling popular U.S. broadcast and cable networks because it believes it cannot make enough money on such a service, people familiar with the matter told Reuters....

A 500-year-old work of art depicting Jesus Christ, believed to be the work of Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci, sold in New York on Wednesday for $450.3 million setting a new art auction record, Christie’s said....

Naming the same title with Dhaka Dynamites slogan–‘Jitbe Dhaka Dekhbe Desh’, singer-composer Pritom Hasan has made the theme song for the team, on occasion of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Season 5. Pritom himself lent voice, tuned...

Hollywood star and humanitarian Angelina Jolie has condemned sexual violence inflicted on Rohingya women amid the massive violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.  More than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have entered Bangladesh after fleeing from Buddhist-majority Myanmar since...

A plastic version of comic-book superhero Wonder Woman’s sword and a Spider-Man drone showed up as villains on a U.S. child safety advocacy group’s annual list of potentially hazardous toys. The group, World Against Toys Causing...

Taylor Swift’s new album “Reputation” has sold more than one million copies in its first four days, Nielsen Music said on Tuesday, but the U.S. pop star failed to beat the record set by Britain’s Adele...

The 7th Dhaka Literary Festival (DLF) will begin on the premises of Bangla Academy today (November 16, 2017). Jatrik Production Limited (JPL), The Cultural Affairs Ministry and Bangla Academy are jointly organizing the three-day literary event...