HC questions 15th amendment that scrapped caretaker govt system
The High Court on Monday asked the government to explain in 10 days why the 15th amendment to the constitution, scrapping the caretaker government system in...
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Former CJ Khairul sued for changing verdict on caretaker govt
Former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque was prosecuted on Sunday for changing the Supreme Court verdict on the caretaker government system...
Khokon-Kazal to lead SCBA during interim govt聽
Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon and Ruhul Quddus Kazal have been chosen as the president and the secretary respectively to run Supreme Court Bar Association during tenure of the interim government of Professor Muhammad Yunus...
Ex-senior sec Shah Kamal on five-day remand
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Sunday placed former senior secretary to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, Shah Kamal, on five day-remand in a case filed with the Mohammadpur police station...
AL leader MA Latif placed on three-day remand in Chattogram
A Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Court placed former lawmakers for Chattogram-11 and Awami League leader MA Latif on a three-day remand on Saturday.
CJ forms 50 HC benches
Chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Thursday formed 50 new benches of the High Court Division to hold proceedings from Sunday.聽
Why children killings won鈥檛 be probed by int鈥檒 body: HC
The High Court on Thursday asked the government to explain why the killings of children by gunshot from helicopters during the Student Movement Against Discrimination would not be...
Israel and next big war
THE push towards an all-out war in the Middle East is moving out of its sleepwalking phase to that of conscious eschatological reckoning. A blood filled, fiery Armageddon will reveal the forces of virtue, linking the evangelicals of the United States with the right-wing Jewish nationalists in Israel. That appalling prospect is certainly not one to discount:..
Salman F Rahman, Anisul Huq put on ten-day remand
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Wednesday placed deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman and former law minister Anisul Huq on a 10-day remand in a case filed with the New Market police station over the killing of hawker Shahjahan Ali...
Four Appellate Division judges take oath
Four newly appointed judges of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court took oath on Tuesday...
4 HC judges elevated to Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court
Four High Court judges were on Monday elevated to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court clearing the way for the newly appointed chief justice to hold proceedings in the Appellate Division from today...
HC asks authorities not to collect tolls from ambulances
The High Court on Monday ordered authorities concerned not to collect tolls from ambulances carrying patients on roads, highways, bridges and flyovers across the country....
Injustice was considered as justice in past years: new CJ聽
Newly appointed chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Monday said that in the past years repression descended upon people instead of justice delivered to them.
HC to resume proceedings on limited scale today聽
The High Court will resume its proceedings on limited scale from Monday, one week after the fall of Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 government, while High Court Judge Syed Refaat Ahmed was...
Attorney general for reforming HC 聽
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...
Bangladesh interim govt head Yunus, 13 others relieved of graft charges
The Dhaka Special Judge Court-4 on Sunday relieved 14 people, including interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and health adviser Nurjahan Begum, of a case filed on charges of embezzlement of Tk 25.22 crore from the Grameen Telecom Workers鈥� Welfare Fund...
It鈥檚 mob rule, not reform: Joy
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, said that there was no rule of law in Bangladesh where even the Supreme Court was not safe...
UK court orders jail terms for social media posts
Prime minister Keir Starmer warned Friday that UK authorities must 鈥榮tay on high alert鈥� for more far-right riots, as courts issued the first jail sentences for online incitement during the recent disorder...
Bangladesh Chief Justice Obaidul, five AD judges resign
High Court Division鈥檚 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...
CJ Obaidul Hassan has resigned, Asif Nazrul says
Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan has submitted his resignation letter to the law ministry, confirmed law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on his verified Facebook account on Saturday.
Protesters throng SC, demand resignation of CJ, AD judges
Several hundred protesters, including students and lawyers, gathered on the Supreme Court premises and demanded the resignation of the chief justice and the judges of the Appellate Division on Saturday.
President takes SC鈥檚 opinion before forming interim govt
President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Thursday formed the interim government led by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus after taking opinions from the Supreme Court...
Aam Aadmi Party leader granted bail
India鈥檚 Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to a top opposition politician who was detained last year over a long-running corruption probe...
Thai opposition to choose new leader, new party name
Thailand鈥檚 main opposition Move Forward Party (MFP) will select a new leader on Thursday, a senior official said, before it relaunches under a new name to counter a court-mandated dissolution...
Md Asaduzzaman new attorney general of Bangladesh
Senior lawyer of the Supreme Court Md Asaduzzaman has been appointed as the attorney general for Bangladesh...
Students demand resignation of CJ, other AD justices
The Student Movement Against Discrimination on early Thursday demanded resignation of the chief justice and other Appellate Division justices by the morning to eliminate fascism from the country鈥檚 judiciary system...
Thai court bans popular politician, dissolves party
Thailand鈥檚 most popular politician was banned from politics for 10 years and his party dissolved on Wednesday over his attempt to reform the kingdom鈥檚 archaic royal defamation laws...
Supreme Court suspends activities for indefinite period
The judicial activities of both the Appellate Division and the High Court Division of the Supreme Court will remain suspended until further order, said an official order issued on Wednesday night...
2,200 people mostly from BNP, Jamaat get bail
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate courts on Tuesday granted bail to more than 2,200 people, including Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury and...
Yunus鈥檚 firms need to pay Tk聽663cr tax: HC
The High Court on Sunday cleared the way for the National Board of Revenue to claim Tk 663 crore as taxes from Grameen Kalyan, and firms of Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, in five...