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Team director Ravi Shastri today hosted the entire Test squad for ‘Team Dinner’ to celebrate a good performance in a rain-marred one-off cricket Test, here.

“It was Ravi who took special initiative to host a dinner at a club in the posh Gulshan area of Dhaka. The team members were told that it’s been a moral victory for them as our opponents were never in the match. Another reason for hosting the dinner is because Test team members like Harbhajan Singh, Wriddhiman Saha will be leaving for India tomorrow,” a source close to Team management told PTI today.

Pop star Ariana Grande says she sometimes forgets she is famous until she sees her photos in pyjamas in public.

The 21-year-old singer admitted she sometimes does not think about the fact that people are watching her and is surprised when pictures of her out in public wearing her pyjamas surface online, reported Female First.

“Sometimes I’ll forget and go outside in my pyjamas and the next day I’ll see a bunch of photos of me at the grocery store. That’s always weird.”

Singer-actress Nicole Scherzinger has reportedly been dropped by her record label.

The 36-year-old singer is believed to have parted ways with RCA Records after experiencing a bad run of sales of her second solo album “Big Fat Lie” in the UK charts, reported Contactmusic.

The former “X Factor” judge saw a series low in sales of singles released from the album.

There are reports that the former Pussycat Doll is likely to be picked up by another label.

Scherzinger is currently competing on TV series “I Can Do That”, which challenges celebrities to show their hidden talents.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal slams liberals for being obsessed with race
Louisiana State Police say 113 people were rescued from an all-terrain vehicle park in central Louisiana after a temporary private levee broke, trapping festival-goers on high ground.

Master Trooper Scott Moreau says that about 3:15 am local time yesterday, the Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office asked help evacuating the Colfax Mudfest Recreational Park. He says in an email that everyone was evacuated safely.

A teenage girl had part of her arm torn off and a boy was also badly injured in separate shark attacks in a North Carolina seaside town, officials and US media said.

Authorities raced to get people out of the water at picturesque Oak Island after a shark mauled a girl of 14, followed soon after by a 16-year-old boy who reportedly lost his arm, NBC News said yesterday.

The girl, who was visiting the area with family, was airlifted to a hospital for urgent treatment, said Oak Island Mayor Betty Wallace.

A North Carolina mayor says that a teenage girl suffered severe injuries in a shark attack near a fishing pier.

Mayor Betty Wallace of Oak Island, a seaside town bordered to the south by the Atlantic Ocean, says that the teenage girl was bitten yesterday afternoon.

Wallace says the girl lost part of her left arm and may lose part of her left leg. The victim was airlifted to a nearby hospital.

Wallace said in a phone interview yesterday that she didn’t have further information on the girl’s prospects for recovery.

One Direction star Harry Styles was seen cuddling up with ‘Victoria’s Secret’ model, Sara Samaio, outside a hotel in New York.

The pair was caught sharing a cuddle and a kiss, reported Ok! magazine.

According to the reports, Styles, 21, had been partying with a group of friends but seemed very friendly with Samaio.

The duo appeared to share a great chemistry as they hugged and kissed each other when she left.

Actress Rachel McAdams had a “wonderful experience” working with James Franco on “Everything Will Be Fine”.

The 36-year-old actress wanted to work with the actor for some time and was delighted to be cast alongside him in “Everything Will Be Fine”, reported LOOK magazine.

“He is so easy to work with. Even though he plays a man who is haunted by his past, he was light-hearted on the set.

“I have wanted to work with him for a long time. It was a wonderful experience,” she said.

Workers cleared hammocks and lounge chairs from beachside hotels and cafes as Tropical Storm Carlos churned up strong winds and waves while threatening to regain strength as it trudged up Mexico’s Pacific coast.

A policeman has been shot dead by unknown gunmen in al-Azizia village in Egypt’s Fayoum Governorate.

The victim, identified as Sherif Goma, was on his way to work when the gunmen attacked him yestereday, primary investigations showed, according to security sources.

The attacks targeting police and military has increased after the ouster of Islamist former president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.

Over 600 security personnel have been reportedly killed since then.

Two convicted murderers who used power tools to cut their way out of a prison near the Canadian border could be nearby or “in Mexico by now,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has said.

The intense manhunt focussed on the fields and Adirondack woods near the prison in upstate New York after the inmates’ escape was apparently hampered by a prison employee’s decision to back out as their getaway driver nine days ago.

A court in Panama jailed two North Koreans for 12 years for trying to smuggle Cuban weapons through the Panama Canal in an incident which raised international suspicions, their attorney has said.

Their convictions came as something of a surprise since a lower court had let the men off after their North Korean cargo ship was found to be carrying Cuban weapons including surface-to-air missile systems and launchers when it was stopped in the Panama Canal in July 2013.

The “Veep” actor has joined “Gold”, which will star Matthew McConaughey and Edgar Ramirez.

Simons will play a Wall Street banker who is forced into the jungles of Borneo. Michelle Williams also stars in the film, which is based on a script by Patrick Massett and John Zinman.

The Black Bear Pictures film, directed by Stephen Gaghan, centers on a man named Kenny Wells (McConaughey), who teams up with an equally luckless geologist to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.

The filming will take place in Thailand, New Mexico and New York.

Actress Amy Poehler is reportedly in talks to star with Will Ferrell in the comedy movie “The House”.

The 43-year-old actress will apparently play Ferrel’s wife in the New Line comedy written by “Neighbors” writers Andrew J Cohen and Brendan O’Brien, said the Hollywood Reporter.

The film would mark the first time the two have worked together since they faced off as rival ice skaters in the comedy “Blades of Glory.”

Actress Demi Moore reportedly wants to follow in daughter Rumer Willis’ footsteps and compete on “Dancing With the Stars”.

The 52-year-old actress is reportedly eager to take to the dance-floor in a bid to revive her career, but her eldest daughter Rumer, who recently won the latest series, is said to be unhappy that she wants to follow in her footsteps, reported Star magazine.

“She thinks ‘DWTS’ will reinvigorate her lagging career. Rumer doesn’t get why her mom, who’s already an A-list star, needs to try to outshine her,” a source said.

An ethnic Russian woman and her young daughter have been found dismembered and their body parts stored in plastic garbage bags in the violence- plagued Mexican city of Tijuana near the US border.

Baja California state deputy prosecutor Jose Maria Gonzalez said the drug-affected eldest daughter, 19, was the prime suspect in the grisly case, uncovered only when neighbours reported a foul smell emanating from the house in the middle-class district of Playas de Tijuana.

A man arrested after police say a gun in his pocket went off at a swank New York City hotel, injuring four people, faced charges today of reckless endangerment and assault.

Police said 42-year-old Vladimir Gotlibovsky also tampered with physical evidence after his gun discharged inside the famed Waldorf Astoria hotel.

Another man, 51-year-old Felix Gotlibovsky, was also arrested, on charges of criminal possession of a weapon and tampering with physical evidence.

Authorities say the Brooklyn men were at the Park Avenue hotel last night as a wedding was taking place.

In a retort to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s advice to BJP president Amit Shah to practice yoga regularly at home without much ado, his Jharkhand counterpart Raghuvar Das today branded him as ‘arrogant and proud’.

“Nitish Kumar is arrogant and proud. The people of Bihar will teach him a lesson in the forthcoming assembly poll,” Das, who held a meeting with party workers in regard with the preparation for the World Yoga Day on June 21, told newsmen.

Thousands of Syrian refugees poured into Turkey on Sunday to escape the battle between Kurds and Islamic State (IS) jihadists for the Syrian town of Tal Abyad, as the Turkish authorities reopened the border after days of closure.

The Syrians, many carrying sacks of possessions and small children, flooded through the Akcakale border gate onto Turkish territory, an AFP photographer said.

There had earlier been chaotic scenes as some of the refugees crossed the border illegally through holes in fences, prompting rapid intervention from the Turkish army.

Congress leader and former state minister Ameeta Singh today hit out at BJP, saying that good days are hardly visible anywhere in the country.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an event here, Singh said, “Kahin bhi achche din dikhai nahi de rahe hain (Good days are not visible anywhere.)”

Targetting local MLA and UP minister G P Prajapati, she accused him of “anti-people and anti-social activities” and said Congress will not allow anyone to ruin Amethi.

“Prajapati has failed on all fronts,” she alleged.

Australia demolished hapless West Indies on the fourth day of the second and final Test at Sabina Park today, routing the home side for 114 to win by 277 runs and take the series 2-0.

Off-spinner Nathan Lyon formalised the result with the wickets of Kemar Roach and Jerome Taylor off successive balls early in the afternoon session.

That was after Mitchell Johnson had ended the resistance of Denesh Ramdin, having the West Indies captain caught by his opposite number, Michael Clarke, at slip for a top score of 29.

Greece believes the demands of its EU-IMF creditors are “irrational”, a government source said after the latest round of talks on its bailout ended without a deal.

“The demands of the creditors are irrational, the discussions lasted 45 minutes,” the source said of the crunch talks held in Brussels as cash-strapped Greece faces a likely default on looming debt repayments.

Italy said today it will ask the EU to set up refugee processing camps in Libya, and threatened to ‘hurt’ Europe should it turn a deaf ear to the crisis on its shores.

The country is struggling to accommodate an endless wave of boat migrants, and a crackdown on security at the borders with France and Austria has exacerbated the situation, causing a bottleneck at Italy’s train stations.

The crisis “should not be underestimated”, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said, as Austria, France and Switzerland expelled asylum seekers back onto Italian soil.

Over a hundred Baluch militants fighting against Pakistani forces in the separatist-insurgency wracked southwestern Baluchistan province have surrendered and pledged their allegiance to the country, officials today said.

A group of 59 militants including two key commanders appeared before the media, along with senior politicians and government officials from the province, to announce they would end militant activities and become a “useful part” of society.

They followed a group of 47 militants yesterday. All were given amnesty by the government.

Poland’s Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak says the US will “soon” take a decision to place heavy army equipment in warehouses in Poland for decades to come.

Poland believes its security is threatened by Russia’s hostile actions in eastern Ukraine and is seeking permanent US and NATO presence on its territory as a deterrent.

Siemoniak tweeted Sunday that he and the US defense secretary held talks about placing US heavy army equipment in Poland last month.

“Decisions are near,” he wrote.