Kim oversees missile tests as North Korea boosts maritime security
Shawdesh Desk: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test firing of a ‘new-type surface-to-sea missile’, state media reported on Thursday, part of a purported fresh drive to ramp ReadMore
UP chairman arrested in Gazipur on charges of extortion, abduction
Shawdesh Desk: Police in a drive arrested chairman of Mawna union parishad Jahangir Alam in Sripur upazila of Gazipur on Wednesday night in connection with a case filed over extortion ReadMore
Six policemen injured in Sylhet road accident
Shawdesh Desk: During a routine vehicle inspection at the Sylhet-Sunamganj road of Temukhi in Sylhet, six policemen sustained injuries as a bus hit them on early Thursday. The incident occurred ReadMore
Three people killed, two injured in Rangamati road accident
Shawdesh Desk: Three people were killed and two others were injured when a lorry hit a three-wheeler on Rangamati-Chattogram at Shalbagan in Rangamati upazila on Thursday morning. Two of the ReadMore
Plan to shrink civic space continues apace
Governing without a people’s mandate may be empowering to those who are making the decisions, but those at the receiving end are likely to revolt in the longer term, writes Jehan ReadMore
