Russia has backed the Jan 5 general elections in Bangladesh and said it was ready to continue constructive partnership with the next government, a media report said Saturday. Russia also regretted that the key opposition parties in Bangladesh boycotted the elections, bdnews24.com reported Saturday citing a Russian foreign ministry statement. “Russia confirms that it is […]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on the international community to provide more political attention and resources to the world body as it faces an overflowing plate of conflicts and disasters. “The situations in Syria, South Sudan and the Central African Republic have gone from bad to worse,” he said in his first news […]
More than 240 houses were damaged by a fire that started in the early hours of Saturday in an ancient town in Shangri-la, a resort county in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, forcing 2,600 residents to evacuate. The fire lasted nine hours till 10:30 a.m. at the Ruyi Inn in the Dukezong Ancient Town, where most […]
At least five people were killed and six injured when a group of armed people attacked a camp for internally displaced persons in Sudan’s Darfur state, the commissioner of Bilail said. “An armed group from Um Qoja area opened intensive fire in Al-Salam camp when people were busy shopping in a market, which left five […]
The Uttar Pradesh government Saturday said that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who lives in Ghaziabad, will get ‘Z’ category security despite his refusal to accept security. A home department official said a committee comprising of Principal Secretary (Home) A.K. Gupta and Director General of Police Rizvan Ahmad Thursday okayed the new security set up […]
At least 71 people have died of cholera in Nigeria’s Kano state, an official said. Abdulsalam Nasidi, project director of Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control, said Friday that 2,165 cases had been recorded in the affected areas in the past two months. The government has sent a team with drugs to the state to help […]
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has slammed rumours that she had Photoshopped her pictures before posting them on Instagram after she gave birth to her baby. She insists she has worked hard for her post-pregnancy figure. The “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star has blasted rumours she digitally altered a recent photograph of her and […]
Yo Yo Honey Singh is currently ruling Bollywood with his songs and it seems like many filmmakers are trying to cash on his name. Well, now it is heard that Ekta Kapoor’s forthcoming sex-horror flick ‘Ragini MMS 2’ will have a video where Honey Singh will perform with the porn star turned Bollywood actress, Sunny […]
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan was recently spotted at the press conference held for the upcoming Zee Cine Awards. Unlike his previous few late visits, the actor made an exception this time by not making the media officials wait for long. When asked the actor, what will his reaction be if he could not get any […]
Director Punit Malhotra, who had roped in Akshay Kumar for his next film ‘Gutka’, which won’t be a rom-com, recently suffered a shock. According to some sources Akshay Kumar has walked out of the film. It is being said that the actor wasn’t happy with the final draft of the script. ‘Gutka’ is about the […]