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Naman Ramachandran The Indian government has approved an audiovisual co-production treaty with Australia, designed to promote joint production of films between the two countries.While details are currently scarce, producer contributions from the two countries can vary from 20% to 80% of the final total cost of the jointly produced work.“Australia has emerged as a preferred destination for shooting of Indian films. India is fast emerging as a major content hub for filmmakers looking for new projects.

West Ham will host Manchester City for the Matchday 1 of the 2022/2023 Premier League. Here you will find all the information you need to know about this game, including how to watch it on TV or live stream in your country.

EXCLUSIVE: Fortress star Kelly Greyson has joined the cast of M-9, the Frank Grillo-starring spy action-thriller adapted from the James Bond-influenced Masud Rana novels.

With the price of food soaring all over the world, Qurbani donations are needed more than ever.

military has now been deployed in the north-eastern region of Sylhet, which has experienced some of the worst impacts from the flooding.Members of Bangladeshi army, navy and coast guard have joined with local aid workers to relocate people in low-lying areas to higher ground.Widespread power outages left many thousands without power and Osmani International Airport – the third largest airport in Bangladesh – was also forced to close.Sylhet region chief government administrator Mosharraf Hossain told AFP: "The situation is bad.

Katherine Tulich Lukas Dhont’s “Close,” which won the Grand Prix in Cannes last month, picked up the Sydney Film Prize, the top prize at the Sydney Film Festival, on Sunday evening.Accepting the award via video message Dhont said: “It’s a film that comes from our hearts, that we worked on for a lot of years with many people.”The international jury consisted of Australian actor David Wenham, Australian director Jennifer Peedom, writer-director-producer Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Bangladesh), Berlin Golden Bear winner Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey), and the executive director of the Kawakita Memorial Film Institute in Tokyo, Yuka Sakano (Japan). Twelve titles in the official competition included Carla Simon’s “Alcarras”, Hlynur Palmason’s “Godland”, Colm Bairead’s “The Quiet Girl” and Del Kathryn Barton’s “Blaze.” The winner is awarded AUD$60,000 ($41,600).

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Jai White (The Dark Knight), ABM Sumon (Dhoka) and Matt Passmore (Jigsaw) are among cast joining Frank Grillo (Captain America) in Asif Akbar’s spy thriller MR-9, which is now underway.

EXCLUSIVE: Captain America, The Purge and Copshop star Frank Grillo is set to star in action movie MR-9, which is shooting imminently in the U.S. and Bangladesh.

Livingston have signed for Hearts and St Mirren attacker Esmael Goncalves to a two-year deal, with the club having an option to extend by a further season.

It can be a real pain when you turn up to your hotel room just to find you can't charge your phone, laptop or toothbrush because you forgot to pack the correct plug adapter. To help you avoid this annoyance, we've made a list of every country and the type of plug needed so you won't be caught out again.

Naman Ramachandran Top Bangladeshi actor Nusrat Imrose Tisha is in Cannes to promote her new film “Mujib: The Making of a Nation.” A trailer for the film, a biopic of the late Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was unveiled at the Cannes Film Market.Popularly known as Bangabandhu (friend of Bengal), Rahman was one of the founders of the Awami League party and led the movement for political autonomy for East Pakistan and the subsequent formation of independent Bangladesh in 1971. He served as the first president and then the first prime minister of Bangladesh until he, his wife and sons were assassinated in an army coup in 1975.

Naman Ramachandran India’s Mithila Palkar (Netflix’s “Little Things”) and Jaaved Jaaferi (“Sooryavanshi”) and Bangladesh’s Siam Ahmed (“Shaan”) have joined the cast of “In the Ring (Story of a Burqa Boxer).”Set in the female Muslim boxing community of Khidderpore, Kolkata, India, the film is a psychological thriller about Shama, a 17-year-old boxer who exchanges places with her double to fight in the national championship when she is framed in her aunt’s murder.The cast also includes Razia Shabnam, one of the first Indian women to become an international boxing referee and coach.The Hindi-language film will be directed by U.S.-based filmmaker Alka Raghuram, who previously directed the acclaimed documentary “Burqa Boxers,” about Muslim women boxers in Kolkata. The project is being produced by Sreyashii Sengupta for Singapore-based Darpan Global and Souvikk Dasgupta for Oriizon Global in India, with Los Angles-based Rick Ambros serving as executive producer.Raghuram said: “I started writing this script while I was filming the documentary ‘Burqa Boxers.’ While the immersion into their world allowed me to tell the documentary story in the style of realism, it also made me want to explore the interior [worlds] of the characters via a more stylized narrative and style.

Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine are still hard to come by, the Russian media has begun to report deaths among the invading force. Russian news site Chita reported this week that crack sniper Sergei Tsarkov had been killed in combat, and has posthumously been awarded the Order of Courage medal.

Naman Ramachandran India’s long awaited location shooting incentive scheme is now a reality. At the Cannes Film Market on Wednesday, Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur revealed a 30% reimbursement scheme for international productions shooting in India.The Indian federal government will reimburse up to 30% of qualifying production expenditure to a maximum of INR20 million ($260,000).

EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content and CAA have signed Nuhash Humayun, the Bangladeshi writer-director whose horror short Moshari won the Grand Jury Award at SXSW 2022, for representation.

detonating three nail bombs which tragically killed three people.On April 17, 1999, David Copeland, 45, placed a bomb containing four-inch nails inside a sports bag and left it in Brixton, south London, an area which was known for having a large black community.The bomb was left in the heart of Brixton Market on Electric Avenue, with the aim of causing as many casualties as possible.However, market workers noticed the suspicious package and Copeland acting strangely and decided to move the bag to a less crowded area.The police were later called and the bomb detonated at around 5:30pm, just as the cops arrived on the scene.The explosion injured 48 people, including a one-year-old baby, with extreme right-wing group Combat 18 claiming responsibility.A week later, on April 24, the then-22-year-old detonated a bomb on Brick Lane in east London, an area known for having a large Bangladeshi community.Copeland had aimed to let the bomb off when the street would be most busy but hadn’t realised that the market would take place on Sunday, instead of Saturday.Despite that, he left the device inside a sports bag on Hanbury Street and continued with his original plan.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.A man noticed the bag and put it in the boot of his car and drove it to a local police station.The bomb exploded while in the car, injuring 13 innocent bystanders.Finally, six days later on April 30, a third bomb went off, this time in Soho, in the heart of London’s gay community. The streets were busy as it was the beginning of a bank holiday weekend and people at the pub had noticed the package, hidden in another sports bag.

A 10-year-old girl from Oldham is walking 50 kilometres for charity in honour of her late grandad.

Film Independent today announced the names of the 30 filmmakers, from 11 nations, selected to participate in its 2022 Global Media Makers LA Residency, taking place in person this month.

RICHARD Madeley left a Good Morning Britain guest close to tears today during a tense debate about oil protests. The host kicked off the discussion by telling Miranda Wheelan she had zero support from viewers after her group blocked petrol supply chains and left millions of motorists scrambling for fuel.

Naman Ramachandran “Mujib: The Making of a Nation,” the biopic of late Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is currently in post-production and a teaser will be unveiled at the Cannes Market in May. Popularly known as Bangabandhu (friend of Bengal), Rahman was one of the founders of the Awami League party and led the movement for political autonomy for East Pakistan and the subsequent formation of independent Bangladesh in 1971.

Clive Myrie has spoken about how the Russia-Ukraine war is "on a different scale" to anything he's seen before in his 30 years of reporting. The conflict in the Eastern European country has prompted an outpouring of support and donations from celebrities and even royalty, with Kate Middleton making a rare political statement in support of Ukraine.