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SC allows filing of review petition

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday granted permission to file a review petition challenging its May 10, 2011 verdict that declared the election-time non-party caretaker government system illegal...

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Ex-justice Manik at ICU in Sylhet 

Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, a retired judge to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, was admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital in a serious condition on Saturday night...

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Journalist Mujibur Rahman Chy dies

President of Rajshahi Division Journalist Association, Dhaka and senior sub-editor of Bangladesh Pratidin Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury passed away early Thursday. He was 61...

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Six ICT division officials relieved of duties

The ministry of information and communication technology has directed six of its officials from various departments, organisations, and companies to refrain from performing their duties amid ongoing investigations into several allegations against them...

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Shakil Ahmed, Farzana Rupa detained at Dhaka airport

Former chief of news of Ekattor Television Shakil Ahmed and his wife and the TV channel’s former principal correspondent and presenter Farzana Rupa were detained at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka as they allegedly tried to leave the country...

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Early local govt elections should be high on govt agenda

THE interim government has removed representatives of all local government institutions but for the union councils and appointed administrators, giving the absence of chairs and mayors from office as a reason in less than a fortnight after the downfall of the Awami League’s authoritarian regime that was toppled on August 5...

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HC asks BTRC to shutdown broadcasting of Somoy TV for seven days

The High Court on Monday asked the information and broadcasting ministry’ secretary and chairmen of Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission and Bangladesh Satellite Company Limited to stop broadcasting of Somoy Television channel for seven days...

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Attorney general for reforming HC  

Attorney general Md Asaduzzaman on Monday suggested reforming the High Court Division following the resignation of the chief justice and five Appellate Division judges on Sunday amid allegations of an attempted judicial coup against the interim government headed by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus...

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Bangladesh Chief Justice Obaidul, five AD judges resign

High Court Division’s justice Syed Refaat Ahmed was appointed as chief justice of Bangladesh on Saturday following the resignation of chief justice Obaidul Hassan and five other judges of the Appellate Division amid student protests and allegations of an attempted judicial coup...

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New curriculum not suspended: ministry

Education ministry officials on Saturday confirmed that a new school curriculum had not been suspended amid a confusion raised in this regard...

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Finance div prepares economic report for finance adviser

The Finance Division has prepared an update about the economy highlighting the prevailing high inflation and falling forex reserves to submit to the finance adviser of the newly formed interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus...

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Rangpur manager Bithi reinstated

Rangpur Division women’s cricket team manager Arifa Jahan Bithi – who was dismissed from her role following her participation in helping the protestors during the recent Anti-Discrimination Student Movement in the country – has been reinstated...

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Judiciary must learn to stay off political control

THE judiciary appears to be in need of an urgent course correction as it appears to have shifted its standing with the change in the government. And, such a shift questions the independence of the judiciary that was officially effected on November 1, 2007 from the executive and the legislative based a 12-point directive that the Appellate Division issued...

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Contempt of court rule issued against lawyer Mohsin, journalist Kanak

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday issued contempt of court notices against lawyer Mohammad Mohsin Rashid and expatriate journalist Kanak Sarwar for making objectionable comments about the judiciary, Supreme Court and International Criminal Tribunal...

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Six land in jail in BTV rampage case

A Dhaka court has sent six leaders of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, including Sultan Salauddin Tuku to jail in a case, lodged over rampaging state-owned...

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Notification to be issued anytime, says minister

A notification on the order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court over quota reform is likely to be issued today or tomorrow, public administration minister Farhad Hossain said on Monday...

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Govt had better take action on all issues protesters talk of

THE Appellate Division has revoked the High Court verdict of June 5 that ordered the government to reinstate 30 per cent of civil service job reservations for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters. The appeals court in its verdict after hearing two petitions on July 21 brought down the civil service job reservations...

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The wound will cast a long, indelible shadow

THE Appellate Division coming to revoke the July 5 High Court verdict that asked the government to reinstate 30 per cent quotas in government jobs for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters, sparking massive student protests, does not, and will not, heal the wounds that have been inflicted on the nation since July 15...

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JS body asks BTV to broadcast quality progs

The parliamentary standing committee on the ministry of information and broadcasting on Tuesday suggested Bangladesh Television broadcast quality programs in order to...