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At least 10,000 people are homeless after a massive fire swept through a crowded slum in the Bangladesh capital and destroyed thousands of shanties, officials said Sunday. The fire broke out at in Dhaka’s Mirpur neighborhood late on Friday and razed around 2,000 mostly tin shacks, fire services official Ershad Hossain told. “I could not salvage a single thing. I don’t know what will I do,” 58-year-old Abdul Hamid, who ran a tea stall inside the slum, told AFP as he broke down in tears. Authorities eventually got the blaze under control and no-one was killed, although several people had…

A South Dakota woman who recently gave birth to triplets says she didn’t find out about her pregnancy until she went to the hospital with what she thought were kidney stones. KOTA-TV reports Dannette Giltz, of Sturgis, gave birth to the healthy triplets on Aug. 10. Giltz says that despite having two other children, she did not know she was 34 weeks pregnant. She says that when she started having pains, she thought it was from kidney stones, which she has had before. Doctors told her she was actually in labor – with multiple babies. The triplets were born within four…

A journalist and his brother were shot dead on Sunday by their neighbor, following a dispute over the dumping of cow dung near their house. Dainik Jagran journalist, Ashish, and his brother Ashutosh were shot dead by Mahipal inside their house. Mahipal owns a dairy in the city Kotwali area and his people were dumping cow dung near the victims’ house. Heavy deployment of police has been made in the area following the incident. Ashish had recently joined the Hindi daily. The accused is absconding, DIG Upendra Agarwal said, adding that police teams have been set up to nab Mahipal.…

Block 4 of Russia’s Beloyarsk nuclear power station in the Urals mountains was switched off on Sunday following a “false” response by the safety system, a subsidiary of state nuclear corporation Rosatom said. It said the block was halted at 09.15. “The stoppage was carried out under a routine algorithm,” Rosenergoatom said in a statement, adding the radiation background at the station and surrounding areas was in line with usual levels. The plant was opened in 1964. Last month, a Russian nuclear power plant northwest of Moscow turned off three of its four generating units after a transformer short-circuited. They…

Britain will face shortages of fuel, food, and medicine if it leaves the European Union without a transition deal, jamming ports and requiring a hard border in Ireland, official government documents leaked. The Times said the forecasts compiled by the Cabinet Office set out the most likely aftershocks of a no-deal Brexit rather than the worst-case scenarios. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said it did not comment on leaked documents. Up to 85% of trucks using the main channel crossings “may not be ready” for French customs, meaning disruption at ports would potentially last up to three months before the…

Italian premium sports car maker Ferrari NV will expand sales of easier-driving grand touring cars, but will not try to chase rival Porsche’s annual sales volume, Ferrari Chairman John Elkann told an audience of classic car enthusiasts gathered at this storied golf resort on the Pacific coast. Elkann also reiterated that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, of which he is chairman, remains open to opportunities to combine with other automakers, but is positioned to remain independent. Fiat Chrysler in May proposed a merger with French automaker Renault SA, but the deal fell apart after the French government intervened and Elkann withdrew the…

Indian authorities reimposed restrictions on movement in major parts of Kashmir’s biggest city, Srinagar, on Sunday after violent overnight clashes between residents and police in which dozens were injured, two senior officials and eyewitnesses said. In the past 24 hours, there has been a series of protests against New Delhi’s Aug. 5 revocation of the region’s autonomy. This followed an easing in curbs on movement on Saturday morning. The state government has said that it has not imposed a curfew over the past two weeks, but on Sunday people were being turned back at multiple roadblocks set up in the…

 An airport security worker in New York has been fired for handing a passenger a handwritten note that said: “You ugly!!!”. The June incident came to light this week after passenger Neal Strassner obtained security video through a public records request and posted it to YouTube. The video from Greater Rochester International Airport shows the worker handing Strassner the note after he passes through a metal detector. Strassner says he didn’t think much of it and continued toward his gate. That’s when he says the woman yelled out: “You gonna open the note?” Strassner says that when he did, the…

Over a year after 11 members of a family were found dead at their home in a case of suspected mass suicide in North Delhi’s Burari area, handwriting analysis of the notes detailing the pact has shown that they were written by those who died. One of the pages in the carefully kept registers carried a note saying: Bhagwan ka Raasta” (road to God). Narayan Devi (77), her two sons Bhavnesh (50) and Lalit (45), her daughters-in-law Savita (48) and Teena (42), daughter Pratibha (57), grand-children Priyanka (33), Nitu (25), Monu (23), Dhruv (15) and Shivam (15) were found hanging…

Indian viral sprinter, Rameshwar Gurjar from Shivpuri District, promises he will give it the best shot to give honor to his country in the international sporting arena. Gurjar, 19, was seen in a viral video sprinting barefoot 100 meters in 11 seconds. Indian media quoted him as saying: “I’ve been preparing for 4-5 yrs. I want to win a medal for the country. The government has assured me of good training facilities. I won’t break the government’s trust.” Follow us on Twitter – https://twitter.com/StarvisionN