AFP : South Sudan’s leader Salva Kiir urged unity on the anniversary of the independence of the conflict riven young nation, saying there had been progress on a long-delayed peace agreement. The world’s newest country is still plagued by violence and political infighting since achieving independence from Sudan in 2011. A peace agreement six years ago ended a 2013-2018 civil war between Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar, but key provisions are still unfulfilled and transition timelines repeatedly delayed. Kiir...
Day: July 10, 2024
NN Online Report: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is returning home tonight instead of on Thursday, completing her all pre-scheduled official...
NN Online Report: A large part of the capital, including different main intersections, came to a standstill due to the road blockade by students over the quota systems in the government jobs despite a status quo on the matter by the country’s highest court on Wednesday. The protesters took positions on important roads including Purana Paltan, Gulistan, Jatiya Press Club, Shahbagh, Karwan Bazar, Farmgate, Science Lab and other places halting the movement of vehicles since the morning, reports BSS. Thousands...
BSS Water levels at 40 river stations monitored by Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) have marked rise while 68 stations recorded fall. Among the 110 monitored river stations, water levels at two stations have remained steady while 18 stations are flowing above the danger level, a bulletin issued by the FFWC said here on Wednesday. The Dudhkumar at Pateshwari (Kurigram), the Brahmaputra at Noonkhawa (Kurigram), at Hatia(Kurigram), at Chilmari (Kurigram), the Jamuna river at Fulchari, at Bahadurabad, at Saghata...
NN Online Report: Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized arms, ammunition, drugs and other contraband items worth Tk 172.95...
NN Online Report: State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat on Wednesday urged the quota protestors to call off their street demonstration causing public sufferings as the Supreme Court’s (SC) Appellate Division ordered status quo maintaining the 2018 government circular on the issue. “The SC has not just ordered a status quo. Had it been so, it would have upheld the High Court judgment abolishing the government circular issued over the quota,” he wrote in a status in...
AFP Iran’s reformist president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian will take the oath of office in parliament on July 30, a member of...
AFP Hundreds of people were trapped in rural Tibet in recent days after heavy rainfall caused floods and landslides, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday. At least 472 people, including local residents and tourists from outside the area, were trapped outside Chentang Township in the Shigatse area, state broadcaster CCTV said. China is battling extreme weather across the country this summer, with the national weather agency expecting extreme heat to persist for much of the season. Swathes of northern China...
AFP Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Wednesday that 60 percent of Hamas fighters had been “eliminated or wounded” in...
NN Online Report: Students of seven college blocked the road in the capital’s Science Lab area on Wednesday morning as part of their pre-scheduled programme. Around 10:30am, two hundreds students brought out a procession from Dhaka College and took position at Science Lab intersection, causing severe traffic congestion in and around the area. Students staged a sit-in on the road, chanting slogans like “Quota not come back, we want merit-based recruitment, etc…”. The anti-quota protesters said, “We will continue the...
NN Online Report: Tulip Siddiq, a granddaughter of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has been appointed as...
NN Online Report: The Supreme Court’s Appellate Division has issued a four-week ‘status quo’ order amid a protest movement against...