NN Online Report: Students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) continued their demonstration for the second day today...
Day: March 30, 2024
Al Jazeera : Gaza’s Health Ministry says 71 Palestinians have been killed and 112 wounded over the latest 24-hour reporting...
REUTERS : Surveying the stripped landscape of her farm – dotted with pools of cyanide-tainted, tea coloured waste water left by illegal gold miners – is enough to make Janet Gyamfi break down. Only last year, the 27-hectare plot in western Ghana was covered with nearly 6,000 cocoa trees. Today, less than a dozen remain. “This farm was my only means of survival,” the 52-year-old divorcee told Reuters, tears streaming down her cheeks. “I planned to pass it on to...
AFP, Yerevan : Armenian banks on Friday said they would stop processing transactions made by Russian Mir payment cards due to Western sanctions imposed on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine. In September 2022, the US Treasury Department threatened foreign banks with secondary sanctions for servicing Mir cards, a Russian card payment system. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said in February that Russia has been using the system to evade Western sanctions, which have targeted Moscow’s financial system....
The proposed amendments to the Road Transport Act of 2024 have ignited a fervent debate across Bangladesh, with Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) leading the charge against what it perceives as a perilous journey toward anarchy on the roads. In a statement released on Thursday, TIB voiced grave concerns over the potential ramifications of the proposed amendments, highlighting their potential to exacerbate insecurity and disorder in the country’s transportation sector. At the heart of TIB’s objections lies the exclusion of public...
Staff Reporter : The prices of meat, such as beef and chicken, as well as potatoes, were notably higher yesterday...
Xinhua : Authorities have seized 78.4 kg of raw opium in Myanmar’s Mandalay region, the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control said in a statement on Friday. Acting on a tip-off, anti-narcotics police searched two suspicious motorcycles on Tuesday in Yamethin Township of the Mandalay region, and seized drugs, along with two mobile phones and cash. The seized drugs had a street value of 70.56 million kyats (about 34,550 U.S. dollars), the committee said. Three persons were arrested in the...
AFP, Beijing : Chinese telecom giant Huawei on Friday said its profits more than doubled in 2023, a year that...
UNB : Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun has advised the people to inform the National Emergency Service 999 as soon as possible, if they face any kind of problem in Dhaka during the Eid holidays. “Dhaka becomes almost empty during the Eid holidays. So, please let us know through our control room number or call (National Emergency Service-999) if anyone is in trouble.”...
Sheikh Arif Bulbon : Director Ziauddin Alam has already produced a special drama titled ‘Jibon Songsar’ for the upcoming Eid...