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    Looks like the D-day is almost here guys! While yesterday we got to see pictures of Salman Khan’s girlfriend Iulia Vantur arriving at the airport along with his mother Salma. Our source EXCLUSIVELY reveals to us how Salman is further set to make his relationship official with Iulia at Preity Zinta’s wedding reception tonight, similar to how Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan had made their relationship official at the Lakme Fashion Week back in 2009. Yes! This is happening for real! Salman, who is a very dear friend to Preity, plans to officially introduce Iulia to all his industry peeps at the wedding bash tonight. In fact, this would be their first official public appearance together as a couple which explains why we are so excited. However, despite making things official,...

আন্তর্জাতিক নিউজ ডেস্ক: সব ধর্মের মধ্যেই সাম্প্রদায়িকতা আছে – তা সে ইসলাম হোক, হিন্দুধর্ম বা অন্য কোনো ধর্ম৷ যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের প্রেসিডেন্ট নির্বাচনে রিপাবলিকান প্রার্থী ট্রাম্প যে মুসলিমবিদ্বেষী তা সকলেই জানে৷ তাই তো তাঁর পুজো শুরু হয়েছে ভারতে! ডোনাল্ড ট্রাম্প নাকি ভগবান বিষ্ণুর ‘অবতার'! অথচ দেখুন, মাত্র মাস খানেক আগে ডেলওয়ার অঙ্গরাজ্যে একটি নির্বাচনি জনসভায় বিশ্রি অঙ্গভঙ্গি আর কদর্য ভাষায় ভারতীয়দের উপহাস করেছিলেন ট্রাম্প৷ এরপর অনেকেরই মনে হয়েছিল কোনো ভারতীয়ই আর ট্রাম্পের দিকে ফিরে তাকাবেন না৷ কিন্তু এবার সেই ট্রাম্পকেই মানবজাতির একমাত্র ‘রক্ষক' আখ্যা দিয়ে শুরু হয়ে গেছে তাঁর বন্দনা৷ রাজধানী নতুন দিল্লির যন্ত্ররমন্তরে ডানপন্থি দল ‘হিন্দু সেনা' ট্রাম্পের ছবিতে তিলক এঁকে ঘটা করে করেছে পুজোর সমস্ত আয়োজন৷ প্রশ্ন হলো, গোটা বিশ্বের সংবেদনশীল মানুষ যখন বিতর্কিত ও বেফাঁস মন্তব্যের কারণে ট্র...

    Bangladesh and India will closely work together to counter violent extremism and terrorism, visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said today. The two countries will further strengthen their existing structure in the future in this regard, the Indian foreign secretary said while talking to the media at State Guest House Padma in Dhaka. Earlier, he held a bilateral meeting with his Bangladeshi counterpart Md Shahidul Haque. “I am also here to convey the government of India’s strong support to government of Bangladesh as it is battling terrorism and extremism,” Jaishankar said. This is an issue which is of a direct concern to as never and we are in touch and we will work bilaterally and closely together on the matter, he added. Bangladesh Foreign Secretary...

    Daljinder Kaur gave birth last month after two years of treatment using donor eggs at a fertility clinic in the northern state of Haryana. Though certainly one of the oldest mothers to give birth, her exact age was unclear. She has said she is about 70 but does not have a birth certificate, which is not uncommon in India. Anurag Bishnoi, embryologist and owner of the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby centre in Hisar, told the Guardian he believed she could be 72. “She has said she is five to seven years younger than her husband, and his birth certificate shows he was born on 12/04/1937,” he said. Kaur said she and her husband, Mohinder Singh Gill, a farmer, had almost lost hope of having their own child and had faced ridicule in a country where infertility is sometimes...

    Kim's comments came during the second day of the ruling Workers Party Congress (WPK), where he appeared to be consolidating his grip on power. The congress announced the would be bestowing their top title on Kim, although is already the undisputed leader of the party and the country. As a responsible nuclear weapons state, our Republic will not use a nuclear weapon unless its sovereignty is encroached upon by any aggressive hostile forces with nukes, the state-run news agency, KCNA, quoted Kim as saying. And it will faithfully fulfill its obligation for non-proliferation and strive for the global denuclearization. After North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and subsequently launched a long range rocket into space, both in defiance of past United Nations ...

    The Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) accepted the resignation of Lorenzo Tan as president and CEO of the Yuchengco-controlled financial institution effective immediately, the bank said in a statement released this evening. RCBC, however, cleared Tan of any wrongdoing, saying an internal investigation into the $81-million money laundering caper “had cleared [him] of any breach of bank rules and policies.” “He resigned to give the board a free hand in directing the course of the bank’s future,” RCBC said. In a separate statement, Tan said that “despite having been cleared of any wrongdoing, as president and CEO of RCBC, I take full moral responsibility for this sad incident in the history of the bank.” “With a heavy heart, I feel the time has come for me to move on and p...

    Bangladesh, India and Myanmar today agreed to work together for collaborative efforts to conserve Hilsa, the national fish of Bangladesh. The pledge was taken in a two-day long regional seminar Sustainable Management of Hilsa Fishery in the Bay of Bengal Region at a Dhaka hotel this afternoon. Bangladesh alone produces 60 percent of the Hilsa in the world. Last year, the yield was 3.87 lakh metric tonnes. India and Myanmar constitutes the rest of the 95 percent that these three countries produce together. Bangladesh is already in an agreement with India, a memorandum (MoU) inked during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Dhaka, on “blue economy” and maritime cooperation in the Bay of Bengal. Blue economy, a concept that is emerging worldwide, is the exploitation...

    The picture released from North Korea's official KCNA shows leader Kim Jong-un during the inspection of an underwater test-fire of a strategic submarine ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea on… Weddings and funerals have been banned and Pyongyang is in lockdown as preparations for a once-in-a-generation party congress get underway in North Korea. The ruling Worker’s Party of Korea, headed by the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, is due to stage the first gathering of its kind for 36 years on Friday. Free movement in and out of the capital has also been forbidden and there has been an increase in inspections and property searches, according to Daily NK, which claims to have sources in the country. The temporary measures are said to be an attempt to minim...

    Kim Dong-Chul was handed the sentence for “subversion” and “espionage”, Xinhua news agency said in a short dispatch. The 62-year-old issued a video confession in March where he admitted stealing North Korean secrets, though this was speculated to have been made under duress. Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) had previously said he was arrested while carrying a USB stick with stolen “nuclear and military secrets.” "You could say that my anti-North Korean behaviour was also instigated by the United States," Mr Kim was quoted as saying in his confession. Pyongyang last month sentenced American student Otto Warmbier to 15 years' hard labour for crimes against the state after he tearfully admitted that he tried to steal a propaganda banner from a hotel. North Korea insists Mr K...

    Banharn Silpa-archa, a provincial political powerbroker who served a scandal-ridden 16 months as Thailand's prime minister in 1995-96, has died at age 83. His death early Saturday morning was announced by Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital, where he was admitted Thursday after an asthma attack. Banharn was considered a master of pork barrel politics, making his home province of Suphanburi, in Thailand's central rice-growing region, one of the country's most developed and prosperous-looking. His domination of politics and business there led to it being dubbed "Banharnburi." However, his wily political ways played out badly at the national level. Critics charged that corruption and mismanagement of the economy during his stint as prime minister paved the way for the collapse of Thai...