AD to hear govt appeal against quota verdict Sunday
The Appellate Division has set July 21 for hearing a government recent petition that sought cancellation of the High Court鈥檚 June 5 verdict on maintaining quotas in...
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Common Lanka candidate excites popular imagination
THE question mark that hangs over the presidential election due in October this year is not going away. The answer to it keeps getting put off. The latest is the government鈥檚 proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate ambiguity in the term of the president from six to five years. The Supreme Court has thrice...
SC rejects petition for appeal against admission cancellation
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court scrapped the leave to appeal brought against a High Court judgement, upholding the admission cancellation of the 169 students of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College of the capital...
Pakistan SC grants seats to jailed ex-PM Imran鈥檚 party
Pakistan鈥檚 Supreme Court on Friday granted jailed former prime minister Imran Khan鈥檚 party around 20 seats in parliament reserved for women and minorities, months after...
SC orders alternative accommodation before evicting sweepers
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Dhaka South City Corporation to provide alternative accommodation for the...
SC asks DSCC not to evict sweepers until Thursday鈥� hearing
The Appellate Division on Wednesday asked the Dhaka South City Corporation not to demolish and evict the residents of Miranzilla Harijan Sweepers Colony until it hears DSCC鈥檚 appeal filed against a High Court order prohibiting eviction of the sweepers鈥� residents within their location...
Quota reform to be resolved in August鈥檚 1st week through SC hearing: Quader 聽
Calling the agitating students to go back to classrooms, ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said that the quota system reform issue in government jobs would be resolved through the Supreme Court hearing in the first week of August...
HC verdict on job quota stayed
The Appellate Division on Wednesday ordered status quo for four weeks over a High Court verdict that asked the government authorities to restore a 30 per cent quota for the descendants of freedom fighters while recruiting officers in the civil service...
SC summons lawyer Mohsen, journalist Kanak
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday summoned lawyer Mohammed Mohsen Rashid and journalist Kanak Sarwar for allegedly scandalising, demeaning and maligning the judiciary of Bangladesh in a talk-show...
New LRF committee takes charge
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...
SC again refuses to stay HC verdict restoring FF quota
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court again on Thursday refused to stay a High Court verdict that asked the government to restore the 30 per cent quota for the...
Supreme Court says Trump has some immunity, further delaying trial
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that Donald Trump enjoys some immunity from prosecution as a former president, a decision set to delay his trial for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election.
SC to hear NOAB president鈥檚 arguments August 4
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday set August 4 for hearing the arguments from the Newspapers Owners Association of Bangladesh president AK Azad on the recommendation made by the cabinet committee in 9th Wage Board Award for journalists and workers of newspapers and news agencies, regarding their income tax and gratuity...
SC to hear NOAB's arguments on 9th wage board Monday
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will hear arguments from the Newspapers Owners Association of Bangladesh on a leave to appeal petition regarding the High Court judgment on the income tax of journalists and employees working in newspapers....
Govt must act to clear tax case backlog to increase revenue
AN AMOUNT of Tk 800 billion in revenue having been stuck because of about 30,000 cases pending with the Supreme Court, tax appeals commissioners and tax appellate tribunals largely suggests indifference, if not negligence, on part of government authorities. The cases involve, as revenue board statistics show, Tk 403.89 billion in 11,007 cases related to income tax...
Tk 80,000cr in revenue stuck in 30,000 cases
About 30,000 cases pending with the Supreme Court, and appellate commissioners and tribunals have withheld the collection of Tk 80,000 crore in revenue.
Court able enough to catch wrongdoers wherever they hide: SC
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has said that courts are able enough to catch wrongdoers wherever they hide...
SC clears way for releasing ex-Juba Mohila League leader Papia
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the bail of Juba Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia which was granted by the High Court in the last case relating to amassing illegal wealth...
SC refuses to stay HC verdict restoring 30pc FF quota in govt jobs
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday refused to stay a High Court verdict that asked the government to restore 30 per cent quota for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters while recruiting cadre and non-cadre officers in the civil service....
SC suspends lawyer for FB post on judge
The Appellate Division on Sunday suspended High Court Division lawyer Muhammad Ashraful Islam鈥檚 practice in any court across the country until further hearing on August 29...
Judiciary protects people鈥檚 fundamental rights, interest: CJ
Chief justice Obaidul Hassan, at an international conference in Dhaka on Saturday, said that the judiciary ensured the continued protection of people鈥檚...
Saudi says Hajj pilgrimage to start June 14
Saudi Arabia said the Hajj will start on June 14 after astronomical observatories spotted the crescent moon on Thursday evening, signalling the beginning of the month in which the annual pilgrimage falls...
SC upholds death sentences of 2, restores life-term of 2 acquitted
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence handed down on two persons by a lower court in the case of killing of college-going student Ashikur Rahman Khan Apu and maiming his two brothers at Sutrapur in Dhaka in 2008...
Maintain status quo over share transfer: SC
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the foreign companies, implementing the Dhaka Elevated Expressway project, to maintain the status quo over transferring the major shareholder鈥檚 shares to its co-contractor firms until arbitration in Singapore resolved the share transfer dispute...
Country鈥檚 people astonished seeing salaried govt officer owns crores of takas: Justice Hafiz
Outgoing Supreme Court judge, Justice Mohammad Abdul Hafiz, at his farewell speech, said on Thursday that amassing crores of taka by a salaried government official astonished the entire Bangladesh...
SC clears way for recruiting asst primary teachers in Dhaka, Ctg
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for holding viva voce of 46,199 selected candidates for the post of assistant teachers of the...
Application submitted to ACC for probe into allegations against Gen Aziz
A Supreme Court lawyer submitted an application to Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday seeking the commission鈥檚 steps over graft allegations against former Army chief of Bangladesh General Aziz Ahmed...
SC clears way for Dipjol to perform as BFAA general secy
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday has granted permission to film actor Monowar Hossain Dipjol to resume his duties as the general secretary of the Bangladesh Film Artistes Association...
SC refuses to continue education of 169 overage children at Viqarunnisa school
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday refused to stay a High Court verdict issued on May 21 declaring illegal the admission of 169 overage children in Class I of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College...
SC expects HC judges to sign written orders serially
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in a recent verdict has said that it expects High Court Division judges, barring exceptions, will put their signatures on bail orders and...