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Actor Abdul Kader in a critical condition
Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 01:40pm on December 17, 2020
Popular small screen actor Abdul Kader, who is currently undergoing treatment at Christian Medical Hospital in Chennai, India, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. His...
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Iresh tests COVID-19 positive
Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 11:44pm on December 14, 2020
Iresh Zaker has tested positive for COVID-19. In a Facebook post, the actor said that he tested positive on Sunday and urged all who have...
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Disney+ streaming tops 86 mn subscribers
Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 12:07am on December 12, 2020
Walt Disney chief executive Bob Chapek told investors on Thursday that the company’s year-old streaming TV service Disney+ had passed 86.8 million subscribers, beating its...
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Kim Kardashian asks Trump for clemency
Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 11:39pm on December 10, 2020
Kim Kardashian on Wednesday called on President Donald Trump to commute the death sentence of a US man scheduled to be executed Thursday for his...
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Television artistes demand government welfare fund
Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 10:46pm on December 07, 2020
Actors’ Equity, an association of TV artistes, demanded that a government welfare fund be established for the destitute artistes and crew members. Leaders of the...
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Freedom fighter, actor Aly Zaker dies
Tanzil Rahaman | Updated at 10:00pm on November 27, 2020
Ekushey Padak-winning thespian, popular television actor and freedom fighter Aly Zaker died on Friday morning while undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at a hospital in the...
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From ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ to ‘This Is Us,’ COVID infects TV plots
Agence France-Presse. New York | Updated at 11:32pm on November 20, 2020
With COVID upending every aspect of viewers’ lives, some TV shows -- from the obvious medical dramas to sitcoms -- have woven the pandemic into...
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Princess Diana makes dramatic debut in ‘The Crown’
Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 12:03am on November 14, 2020
More than two decades after her death, princess Diana’s ill-fated entry into the British royal family is the main storyline in the long-awaited fourth season...
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Azizul Hakim, wife, son test positive for COVID-19
Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 11:03pm on November 12, 2020
Popular actor Azizul Hakim, his wife playwright Zeenat Hakim and son Muhaimeen Hakim have tested positive for COVID-19. Ahsan Habib Nasim, general secretary of Actors’...
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Jewel Aich shifted to ICU with COVID-19
United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 11:39am on November 11, 2020
Freedom fighter and Ekushey Padak-winning magician Jewel Aich, who recently contracted COVID-19, is being treated at the Intensive Care Unit of the Combined Military Hospital...