THE partisan role of the law enforcement agencies was once again evident on July 19 when the Dhaka Metropolitan Police allowed and gave protection to the rally held by the ruling Awami League and foiled and attacked rallies held by political parties in opposition. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on July 18 announced that it would hold a rally...
Law minister Anisul Huq today said that Bangladesh government has published gazette notification on the reformed quota system, according to the court rule....
Bangladesh government has, in principle, agreed to reform the quota system in government jobs amid protests in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country....
The Hindu Law Reform Council on Monday submitted a memorandum to the deputy leader of the national parliament Matia Chowdhury, demanding the reformation of the Hindu law...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch chief, Harun-or-Rashid, claimed on Saturday that detectives found two more suspects directly involved in murder of ruling Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata of India...
ISRAEL鈥橲 war on Gaza has gone on for more than nine months, following the Hamas-led attack on Israel in October 2023. A Palestinian territory that has been under Israeli occupation since 1967, Gaza, along with Israel and the Palestinian territories of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, it is about the same distance away from Europe...
Mentioning that everyone should obey by the court order, Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Habibur Rahman on Friday said that police would not tolerate...
Independent lawmaker and former Awami League minister Abdul Latif Siddique has raised an allegation that Jatio Muktijoddha Council or Jamuka has given fake freedom fighter certificates...
The Newly elected executive committee of Law Reporters鈥� Forum for the tenure of 2024-2025 officially took over the office on Thursday from the outgoing committee in a ceremony at its office on the Supreme Court Bar Association compound.聽...
A Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Thursday fixed August 8 as the next day for submitting the investigation report in Jhenaidah-4 constituency lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar abduction and murder case....
A panel of UN experts has determined that the detention of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan was arbitrary and a violation of international law, calling for him to be released 鈥榠mmediately鈥�...
India on Monday implemented an overhaul of colonial-era criminal laws, praised as a 鈥榳atershed鈥� movement by the top judge but which critics said could worsen an already glacially slow pace of justice...
At least 475 workers were killed in 420 workplace accidents across Bangladesh in the first half (January-June) of 2024, according to a Safety and Rights Society survey report...
Law Reporters鈥� Forum on Friday elected its 12-member executive committee with Ashraf-Ul-Alam as its president and Moneruzzaman Mission as general secretary for the 2024-2025 term....
Several Awami League lawmakers on Wednesday became scathingly critical of the rampant corruption in the country...
Detectives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Wednesday arrested two more suspects at a Kali temple in a remote hilly area of Khagrachari in connection with the murder of ruling Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar...
India鈥檚 newly elected lawmakers took the oath of office on Tuesday, but without two vocal government critics unable to take their seats because they are jailed on national security charges...
Ruling Awami League lawmaker and whip Shaimum Sarwar Kamal told Jatiya Sangsad on Sunday that had there not been a cantonment, the Cox鈥檚 Bazar area would have been occupied by the Arakan Army...
Law, justice and parliamentary affairs minister Anisul Huq on Sunday said that the law, under which BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia had been released after suspending her jail term, did not permit sending her abroad for treatment....
Bangladesh can generate 20,555 megawatts of electricity by 2050 using a very small portion of available khas land in the Dhaka division alone, according to a joint study released on Wednesday by the Coastal Livelihood and Environmental Action Network and the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association...
A number of ruling Awami League lawmakers on Tuesday spoke in favour of keeping illegal money legalising provisions, taking part in a general discussion on the proposed budget for the 2024鈥�25 financial year in Jatiya Sangsad...
Malawi鈥檚 vice president Saulos Chilima was killed in a plane crash, the nation鈥檚 president said on Tuesday, after searchers located the wreckage of the aircraft in a...
A Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Monday scrapped pleas for bail by accused Syed Amanullah Aman alias Shimul Bhuiyan and Foysal Ali Saji alias Tanvir Bhuiyan in a case lodged over the abduction and murder of Awami League lawmaker of Jenaidah-4 Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata, India...
The government is set to finalise a law, introducing an integrated ticketing system for all public transports, including road, waterways, railways, and airways...
Law, justice and parliamentary affairs minister Anisul Huq on Sunday said that all steps would be taken to dispose of quickly the cases pending before money loan courts to rein in loan default....
The face of newly elected Indian lawmaker Amritpal Singh stares out from posters and flutters on flags in his home village 鈥� but the firebrand Sikh separatist remains securely in jail...
INTERNATIONAL law 鈥� the recognized rules of behavior among nations based on customary practices and treaties, among them the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 鈥� has been agreed upon by large and small nations alike...
Mumtarin Ferdous Dorin, the daughter of slain ruling Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar, did not get an Indian visa till Thursday as she was waiting to go to Kolkata to give a sample for a DNA test to identify her father鈥檚 body who was reportedly killed in a New Town flat...
Female lawmakers on Thursday advocated for a dedicated law to establish a public fund for female politicians to enhance their participation in politics.
Rajshahi-1 constituency (Godagari and Tanore) lawmaker Omar Faruk Chowdhury accused the Godagari upazila parishad chairman and the upazila nirbahi officer of organising a gathering at the upazila parishad with the alleged intention of killing him...