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Lecturers deputed for Hasanamba festival duty in Hassan

Full list: Winners of the GJA Ashanti Media Excellence Awards

Best in Entertainment Journalism • 1st Place: Yussif Ibrahim (GHANA NEWS AGENCY) – The Soundtrack of Grief: How Daddy Lumba’s Songs Carried his Funeral. Best in Community Impact Journalism • 1st Place: Nana Boakye Dankwah Yiadom (LUV FM / JOYNEWS) – Deadly Doses – Unmasking Ghana’s Drug Epidemic.

Court dismisses Nollywood actor’s N10bn damages suit against Wike’s aide, INEC

The court ruled that Mr Wike’s aide caused Emeka Ike no injury by his social media post.

Stephen Kovacevich - a pianist who risked oblivion to know what it’s like out on the edge

The death of Stephen Kovacevich, aged 86, was announced yesterday. Conversation with Stephen was always like that: utterly intense, totally opinionated, with the feeling that the spirits he was talking about, whether performers or composers from Chopin to Beethoven to Brahms to Mozart to Bach, were in the room with you, conjured into being as real, passionate people and presences.

‘I knead the audience, like a baker!’ House music legend Peven Everett on life after cancer and vanquishing the ‘Disco Sucks’ movement

House music legend Peven Everett on life after cancer and vanquishing the ‘Disco Sucks’ movement. On stage was Peven Everett, performing a rendition of Gabriel, one of the most celebrated anthems in dance-music history.

Tales from Outer Suburbia and Addition among Screen Music winners

Josh Hogan and Ned Beckley scored four wins for Tales from Outer Suburbia, while Lego Masters helped Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks secure another Screen Music Award.

Bafta trustees may have broken charity law by accepting free guest tickets

Chair of membership council says legal advice obtained at own expense suggests offences could have been committed Bafta trustees may have breached charity and company law by accepting free tickets for guests at the organisation’s awards ceremonies, the chair of its membership council has claimed. Michael Pritchett told members at Bafta’s annual general meeting that legal advice obtained at his own expense suggested offences could have been committed by trustees who approved the charity’s accounts, which stated that no trustees had received remuneration or benefits.

30-acre land at Kinfra’s Petrochemicals Park in Ambalamugal proposed for Keralam govt’s J.C. Daniel Film City project

Ernakulam district administration forwards proposal to govt, which plans to set up the film city under a PPP model

The Devils review – Ken Russell’s 1971 possessed-nuns tale is a frenzied aria of confrontation and hysteria

The speaker is Father Urbain Grandier, the 17th-century French priest accused of witchcraft, stylishly played by Oliver Reed, in Ken Russell’s scabrous 1971 classic; it is now restored and rereleased in its complete form after years of censorship. The Devils is based on a true story of politically directed mass hysteria, adapted by Russell from two literary works: Aldous Huxley’s The Devils of Loudun and John Whiting’s stage play The Devils.

Film buffs love it. Trump and Tom Hanks hosted it. Can TCM survive a Hollywood mega-merger?

Trump and Tom Hanks hosted it. Every night just before 8pm, I hide my phone under a pillow in the next room, plate up a carb-heavy dinner, and turn on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) for Sweater Weather, a series of films dedicated to the transitional season.

NOA wins Public Information Campaign of the Year Award at 2026 ARCON Special Recognition Awards

The award recognises the Agency's outstanding contributions to public enlightenment, strategic communication, civic education and the effective dissemination of government policies, programmes and initiatives to Nigerians.

‘Dear Charlie’: letter revealing move to snare future Rolling Stones drummer up for auction

Brian Jones wrote to Charlie Watts in 1962 asking him to leave his R&B group and join his ‘far better’ band instead A handwritten letter from Brian Jones to Charlie Watts in which he attempts to recruit the drummer to join the band that would soon become the Rolling Stones is being auctioned later this year. The 1962 letter, which comes directly from Watts’s sister and has remained in the family for more than six decades, will be revealed to the public for the first time.

Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It? by Judi Dench review – whatever you do, don’t call her a ‘national treasure’

As she left his office, Dench – who was 23 and about to make her professional debut as Ophelia in Hamlet at the Old Vic – breathed a sigh of relief and resolved to concentrate on theatre. Though she dabbled in film and TV, it wasn’t until the 1990s that she became a bona fide movie star, playing M in the Bond films and winning an Oscar for her portrayal of Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love.

Everest: The Other Side review – couple’s climb on the mountain’s toughest face comes with tricky moral questions loom over couple’s lofty ambitions

Immersive portrait of mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson as they seek to become the first people to ski down Everest’s north face With some of its showings in the huge Imax format, this National Geographic-backed documentary feels like a callback to the early, glory days of large-format cinema when it was all about spectacle and scale, turning footage of natural-world wonders into an immersive experience. His partner Hilaree Nelson shares his passion, and the two of them set off to be the first people to ski down Everest’s north face, and the first third of the film tracks them as…

Andhra Pradesh wins national awards for tourism initiatives

Minister Kandula Durgesh receives ‘Excellence in Tourism Leadership’ award at 69th Indian Travel Congress in Kolkata

Peter Asher: Everywhere Man review – music-biz face from Beatles-buddy pop act to superstar producer

Backstory of modest industry veteran who started out as one half of pop duo Peter and Gordon, and went on to produce acts such as James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt Rock’n’roll is notorious for its tales of bad behaviour: throwing TVs out of the window, mountains of cocaine, parades of groupies … but you won’t find any of that here. Peter Asher, brother of Jane, one half of Peter and Gordon, and super-successful producer of acts such as James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, appears to be about as nerdish and clean-living as a 60s/70s music industry veteran could be.

Post your questions for Alex Cox

As the cult director of Repo Man and Sid and Nancy prepares to release his final film, Dead Souls, he takes your questions Everybody has their swansong, whether they know it or not. He broke through with 1984 punk classic Repo Man, then went on to direct Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy.

Enter The Hindu Best Places to Work 2027 Awards — and build a workplace where India’s talent thrives

‘It’s the gay Titanic!’ Inside La Bola Negra, the maximalist queer spectacular bound for Oscars glory

Inside La Bola Negra, the maximalist queer spectacular bound for Oscars glory. We meet the ex-lovers who dreamed it up When Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo – the directing duo known in their native Spain as “Los Javis” – began writing their queer epic La Bola Negra, they weren’t thinking about whether it would be stylish (which it is) or win numerous awards (which it has) or capture what they refer to as “the anti-fascist zeitgeist” (which it does).

Jay-Z Announced As Super Bowl LXI Halftime Show Headliner

Rapper, entrepreneur, and record executive Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter will headline the Super Bowl LXI halftime show in February 2027, the National Football League (NFL) has officially announced. The performance at SoFi Stadium near Los Angeles will mark the first time Carter, 56, takes the stage as the main act for the annual championship game, despite his entertainment company, Roc Nation, having executive produced the halftime showcase since entering into a strategic partnership with the NFL in 2019.

‘If a person isn’t conscious, they’re not saying yes’: Cynthia Erivo on her searing new film about sexual assault

Erivo talks about the potential impact of the film – and how she is navigating her stratospheric success Cynthia Erivo is contemplating her favourite crisps, the ridged American brand Ruffles, as we sit talking in a quiet corner of a west London restaurant. Before her concert, there was the Dior front row at Paris fashion week, and she has just been announced as a guest host on SNL UK.

‘A dog would get treated better than a drag queen in Hollywood’: Alaska on prejudice and leading Oh, Mary!

The RuPaul’s Drag Race alum on queer visibility, politics and starring in Cole Escola’s smash comedy Alaska may be starring in the most subversive comedy in American theater today, but she carries herself with the poise of a 40s movie star. It has been a madcap time for the actor as she prepares to play Mary Todd Lincoln in a new touring production of Cole Escola’s Tony award-winning comedy Oh, Mary!.

TV tonight: incredible photos of the ‘Black Is Beautiful’ movement

Here’s what to watch this evening 10pm, BBC Four “Every photo in this film was taken by Kwame Brathwaite or is of Kwame Brathwaite,” starts this brilliant documentary. Brathwaite’s family, along with Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, Gabrielle Union and Jesse Williams, help tell the story with his stunning archive.

Gaza’s women filmmakers turn pain into cinema as new academy launches

Gaza film festival highlights women's resilience through stories of war, loss and survival.