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Veteran Indian actor Naseeruddin Shah has questioned why many of Bollywood's biggest names have remained silent on the student protests over education reforms, saying some people speak up only after it no longer costs them anything. Speaki...

In an unprecedented show of cultural solidarity, India's artistic community has rallied behind the Gen Z-led protest movement sweeping the national capital. What began as a student demonstration has expanded into a major cultural flashpoint...

Literary enthusiasts around the world can enjoy an exciting selection of new paperbacks this month. Prominent publishers have released several standout novels for Monsoon reading. These new titles offer diverse genres, including dark fami...

Today marks the 127th birth anniversary of the legendary American figure Ernest Hemingway. Think about the depth of the statement – "We are all broken. That's how the light gets in." That is how the famous author produc...

Humayun Ahmed died on a July night in 2012, in a New York hospital room, with pancreatic cancer having done what illness usually does — slowly, then all at once. Dhaka shut down for him in a way it rarely does for anyone who isn't a p...

Brenda Fricker, the first Irish actress to win an Oscar for playing the determined mother of disabled artist Christy Brown in the 1989 film "My Left Foot", has died at the age of 81 after a period of ill health, her agent said on Friday. F...

Members of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested a man from the Malibagh area of Dhaka in a case involving the fraudulent online sale of tickets for a concert by Pakistani singer Atif Aslam. The arrestee was identified as Md...

Netflix's shares tumbled 9.2 per cent before the bell on Friday following another weaker-than-expected earnings forecast from the streaming major, deepening doubts about its ability to sustain growth momentum. While the company has gone be...