The Netherlands: The world’s global legal battlefield
From conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East to salt mining in Brazil — courts in the Netherlands have become Ground Zero in a global legal battlefield with far-reaching implications. ReadMore
Intern doctors’ work abstention interrupts services at SBMCH
Shawdesh Desk: Medical services at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital have faced significant disruptions since Tuesday, as a group of intern doctors extended their strike into a second day. The interns ReadMore
Five people killed in Gopalganj road accident
Shawdesh desk: Five people were killed when a bus rammed into a microbus on Faridpur-Barishal highway at Chagolchira in Maksudpur upazila in Gopalganj district on Wednesday morning. The identities of ReadMore
BNP aims to popularise state reform proposals
Shawdesh Desk: The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party is planning to organise some programmes to popularise its previously announced 31-point democratic reform agenda among the people and the party’s grassroots. ReadMore
Death toll in Gazipur gas cylinder blast rises to 14
Shawdesh desk: Death toll from the gas cylinder blast in Gazipur’s Kaliakair upazila went up to 14, as another burn victim died on early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as ReadMore
Hallmark trial process not comprehensible: Salehuddin
Shawdesh desk: Former Bangladesh Bank governor Salehuddin Ahmed on Tuesday termed the trial process of the Hallmark-Sonali Bank loan scam amounting to Tk 3,700 crore incomprehensible because of a lack ReadMore
North Korea’s Kim oversees hypersonic missile engine test
Shawdesh Desk: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a successful test of a solid-fuel engine for a ‘new-type intermediate-range hypersonic missile’, Pyongyang’s state media said on Wednesday. The test ReadMore
Tanvir, wife among 9 jailed for life over Sonali Bank-Hallmark scam
Shawdeh Desk: The Dhaka Special Judge Court-1 on Tuesday sentenced nine people, including Hallmark Group managing director Tanvir Mahmud and his wife and the group’s chairman Jasmine Islam, to life ReadMore
