AFP, Moscow: North Korea’s relations with Russia have reached a new high point and President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Pyongyang will further strengthen ties, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Wednesday. Putin landed in North Korea earlier, in a trip set to boost defence cooperation between the two nuclear-armed countries as Moscow pursues its offensive in Ukraine. “Relations between our countries are entering a new era of blossoming, which cannot be compared even with the period of Korean-Soviet relations of...
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NN Online Report: Banks in Bangladesh reopened with a new office timing today after the Eid-ul-Azha holidays. From today, banks will remain open from 10:00am to 6:00pm and the transaction hour will end at 4:00pm. However, transaction has yet to get momentum as clients and bankers are still in festive mood, said bankers. A senior official of state-run Sonali Bank’s principal branch told that businessmen and other customers, who have urgent needs, are the ones coming to the branches today....
NN Online Report: Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said motorcycles and easy bikes are causing the highest number of road accidents across the country. Quader said this during the exchange of Eid greetings at his ministry’s conference room in the Secretariat at 11:30am. “It’s very unfortunate that lately, motorcycle accidents have become more frequent. Looking at the accident data, motorcycles account for the highest number of accidents, followed by easy bikes. Reckless driving also plays a significant...
NN Online Report: Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday warned that no one will be spared if they are involved in corruption, no matter how powerful they are. “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has declared ‘zero tolerance’ against corruption, and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has full freedom,” he said while addressing a press conference on contemporary issues at the AL President’s office in the city’s Dhanmondi, reports BSS. Quader said it is no...
NN Online Report: At least nine people including eight Rohingyas were killed in landslides caused by heavy torrential rain in Ukhiya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar this morning. The deceased could not be identified yet. Confirming the number of deaths, Mohammad Samsudduza, additional refugee relief and repatriation commissioner, told that the landslides took place at camps no. 9 and 10. “Nine bodies have been recovered so far,” he said, adding that one of the deceased is from the local community....
NN Online Report: Ekushey Award-winning poet and novelist Asim Saha passed away on Wednesday while undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) hospital. He was 75. “Asim Saha breathed his last at around 2:15 pm today . . . He was undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit of the BSMMU with parkinson, constipation, and diabetes,” poet Mahbuba Rahman Laki, a family friend of the late poet, told BSS. He left behind his wife Anjona Saha, who is...
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NN Online Report: After three days of Eid-ul-Azha vacation, offices, courts, banks, and stock markets will open tomorrow. As per the government decision, all government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous institutions will run from 9am to 5pm instead of 9am to 4pm. On June 3, the cabinet took the decision at a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. The Eid holidays spanned from June 16 to June 18. With the conclusion of Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival...
NN Online Report: Coca-Cola is under fire in Bangladesh for a recent...
NN Online Report: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday greeted all the Freedom...
NN Online Report: A mobilep court of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) fined five seasonal rawhide traders for their unauthorised involvement in rawhide business in Science Lab area of Dhaka on the Eid day Monday. The court led by DSCC’s Zone-1 Regional Executive Officer and Executive Magistrate Muhammad Shafiqul Islam fined Tk 47, 000 the traders for halting movement of public by setting up trucks and vans on roads in the Science Lab area, said a media release signed by...
NN Online Report: Heavy rainfall and swelling hill torrents have caused the...
NN Online Report: BNP senior leader Mirza Abbas on Monday said there...
NN Online Report: Like previous years, a total of five Eid congregations...
NN Online Report: Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has exchanged Eid greetings with her party leaders on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. Sheikh Hasina exchanged the greetings with the leaders of Awami League and associate organisations of the party at her official residence Ganabhaban on Monday morning, reports BSS. Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader and other top leaders of the party greeted the Prime Minister with flowers at about 9:30am. After that, the leaders of Dhaka South...
NN Online Report: Bangladesh qualified for the Super Eights stage of the...
NN Digital Report: Dhaka North City Corporation has announced the successful completion...
The Times of Israeli: Meeting with commanders serving in Rafah on Sunday,...
NN Online Report: Jordan on Sunday confirmed the deaths of 14 citizens and the missing of 17 others who were performing Hajj rituals in Saudi Arabia. Sufian Qudah, the spokesperson for the Jordanian Foreign Ministry, said in a statement that the Jordanian side is following up with concerned Saudi authorities on burials or home returns of the deceased at their families’ request. The Saudi authorities were also continuing the search for the 17 missing pilgrims, according to the statement. The...