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Event: Bangaranga Natyadal’s workshop held

Eminent drama activist and President of Bangaranga
Natyadal Sayed Ahmed distributing certificate among the
participants of the workshop.

Entertainment Desk

Bangaranga Natyadal organised a certificate giving ceremony among the participants of a workshop at Chhayanaut Sangskritik Bhaban in the city recently.

Prof Momtazuddin Ahmed, Mamunur Rashid, Shibli Mohammad, Asif Munir Tonmoy, Mostafa Sharif Mithun and Rahul Ananda were trainers of the workshop.

Eminent drama activist and President of Bangaranga Natyadal Sayed Ahmed chaired the concluding session of the workshop.

Akhteruzzaman, Assistant Secretary General of Bangladesh Group Theater Federation, was present as special guest on the occasion.

Sayed Ahmed distributed certificates and Akhteruzzaman distributed books among the participants.

Then a reception was given to Sayed Ahmed by Mostafa Sharif Mithun and Asif Munir Tonmoy on behalf of Bangaranga Natyadal.

Some 37 participants took their certificates on the occasion.

Celebrity News: Mousumi: The UN envoy

Mousumi

Entertainment Desk

Popular actress Mousumi has been nominated an envoy for the United Nations Population Fund. She is second artist of our film industry who has been awarded for this. Earlier famous hero Razzak was nominated as envoy. On the reaction to this nomination, she said, "It is my dream to serve the human development. Now I got the opportunity. I shall try my level best to do it. Besides acting, I also want to do some thing for children and women. For this reason, I have established Mousumi Welfare Foundation.”

From this foundation, we already made a primary school for the children. Aim of the United Nations Population Fund is to work for the welfare of the people. They want HIV free world, safe motherhood."

Bollywood: Twinkle wasn’t spying on

Katrina Kaif Katrina Kaif

Akshay and me: Katrina

Entertainment Desk

Twinke Khanna made a sudden entry on the finale day of the IIFA 2008 event. Was it to check on her husband since Katrina and Akshay were performing together and there was no sign of Salman around?

She clung to Akshay throughout and made sure he never left her side even for a few moments or even attends his calls.

There were talks going around that Katrina was trying to call up Akshaye frantically before the performance but Akshay didn't pick up the phone. Was it because Twinkle was sitting with him?

Kat baby got so pissed off with all these stories that she decided to give to give it back, "People need to stop imagining so much. This is pure imagination on someone's part. Akshay Kumar came in for the show in the night and left right after as he had a flight to catch. I had dinner with Twinkle and some of her friends after that and even my mom were with me. So what's with these stories?"

Hollywood: Emmy organisers unveil top 10 comedies, dramas

Los Angeles, Agencies

Emmy organisers for the first time ever on Thursday unveiled a list of the top 10 comedies and 10 dramas competing to be nominated for US television's highest honours, which are presented in September.

Traditionally, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences does not reveal its short list of the 20 shows under consideration for best drama and best comedy series nominations, which this year will be announced on July 17. The list of 10 drama finalists includes one previous Emmy winner for best drama series, ABC's castaway thriller 'Lost,' and three other past nominees - ABC's courtroom saga 'Boston Legal' and two medical shows, the Fox hit 'House' and ABC favourite 'Grey's Anatomy.'

The critically acclaimed but low-rated NBC series 'Friday Night Lights' also made the cut, as did the serial killer drama 'Dexter,' which appeared on both CBS and the cable network Showtime. Rounding out the roster of drama finalists were four more cable shows -AMC's new period piece 'Mad Men,' the FX legal drama 'Damages,' Showtime's historical romp 'The Tudors' and the final season of HBO's 'The Wire.'

The top 10 comedies feature six programs from the broadcast networks lead by Emmy winners for the last two year, '30 Rock' and 'The Office,' both on NBC, as well as CBS's bawdy sitcom 'Two and a Half Men,' Fox's animated series 'Family Guy' and ABC newcomer 'Pushing Daisies.'

HBO dominated the four cable TV comedies on the short list with veteran programs 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'Entourage,' as well as recent arrival 'Flight of the Conchords.' They are joined by Showtime's 'Weeds,' about a pot-dealing mom.

The top 10 short lists were determined by votes from the entire television academy, and now go to 'blue ribbon' panels of academy members who will judge the contenders. Results from the academy voting and the panel voting are then averaged to determine the five nominees for each category.

The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards will take place September 21, and will also include awards for TV actors, actresses, mini-series, made-for-TV movies and a host of other honours.