HC approves appointment of new chairman of Destiny-2000
The High Court on Tuesday approved the appointment of Barrister Prashant Bhushan, a Supreme Court lawyer, as the new chairman of the board of directors of Destiny-2000.....
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HC orders collection of identity docs of accused to prevent proxy
The High Court in a verdict on Monday asked the police, lower court judges and jailers to collect and verify identity documents鈥攏ational identification cards, or...
Unauthorised electrolyte drinks still聽on market
Unauthorised electrolyte drinks are still available in the market although a week has passed since a Dhaka Pure Food Court issued arrest warrants for the...
ICC prosecutor seeks Gaza 鈥榳ar crimes鈥� arrest warrant
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday applied for arrest warrants against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top...
HC orders removal of fake blood sugar test strips
The High Court on Monday asked the government authorities to explain in four weeks why their inaction to prevent the manufacture and marketing of fake blood sugar test strips would not be declared illegal...
HC bars Dipjol from performing duty as BFAA general secretary
The High Court has barred film actor Monowar Hossain Dipjol from performing his duties as general secretary of the Bangladesh Film Artistes Association for six months...
ACME, Deshbandhu bosses fined聽聽
A Dhaka Pure Food Court on Sunday slapped fines on The ACME Agrovet & Beverages Ltd owner Tanveer Sinha and Deshbandhu Food & Beverage Ltd chairman Golam Mostafa in separate cases filed on charges of unauthorised production of electrolyte drinks...
BNP leader Ishraque sent to jail
Dhaka metropolitan sessions judge court on Sunday sent the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader and former mayoral candidate of Dhaka South City Corporation Ishraque Hossain to jail in a case, filed over provocative activities in October last year...
HC orders status quo on tree felling
The High Court on Sunday asked the government authorities to maintain status-quo to prevent felling of roadsides trees on the proposed Jashore-Narail road to...
SMC fined Tk聽16 lakh for unauthorised electrolyte drink marketing
A Dhaka Pure Food Court on Thursday fined SMC Enterprise Ltd owner Waliul Islam Tk聽16 lakh in a case filed on charges of unauthorised marketing and...
SC allows income tax collection from all pvt universities
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the National Board of Revenue to collect outstanding income tax from three private universities...
HC starts hearing Tk 600cr tax evasion case of Prof Yunus
The High Court on Thursday started fresh hearing on two writ petitions filed by Grameen Kalyan, a nonprofit social business company founded by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, challenging the National Board of Revenue鈥檚 claim of Tk聽600 crore income tax from the company for the years 2013 to 2017...
SC orders companies to maintain status quo over share transfer
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the project implementing foreign companies to maintain status quo over...
SC scraps Salim Prodhan鈥檚 candidature in Rupganj upazila election
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday scrapped a High Court order to return the candidature of Narayanganj鈥檚 Rupganj upazila parishad chairman candidate Salim Prodhan, a convict in a case over amassing illegal wealth and money laundering....
Div commissioner asked to explain eviction failure
The High Court on Wednesday asked Rangpur divisional commissioner Md Zakir Hossain to explain his failure to evict 812 illegally made brickfields as the court directed him to do so...
President asks judges to ensure justice
President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Wednesday asked the judges of all courts, including the Supreme Court, to make all-out efforts so that litigants could get justice easily...
Moot court competition held at BRAC University
BRAC University law society in collaboration with the law faculty of the university organised the fifth intra-department moot court competition 鈥� 2024 recently, said a press release...
Govt appeal against HC solitary confinement verdict irrational
THE government鈥檚 filing an appeal with the Appellate Division challenging the High Court verdict that has asked prisons authorities not to keep in solitary confinement the inmates meted out death sentences before all judicial and administrative processes are...
SC stays HC verdict against isolation of death sentence convicts
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed a High Court verdict that asked the jail authorities not to put death sentence inmates any more in solitary confinement before the end of all legal processes...
Alal speaks against entire judiciary: HC
The High Court said on Tuesday that main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party joint secretary general Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal made contemptuous remarks against the entire judiciary...
Isolated cell only after all processes: HC聽
The High Court ruled on Monday that no death sentence prisoner could be put in isolated cells of prisons before the completion of the judicial and...
HC asks fugitive JL leader to surrender
The High Court on Sunday asked a city Juba League leader, who still remains fugitive hiring a person to serve out his jail term, to surrender to the trial court by today...
Appeal against GM Quader as JP chair dismissed
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday dismissed a leave to appeal seeking bar on GM Quader鈥檚 responsibility as Jatiya Party chairman....
Victims can engage lawyers in sexual assault cases: HC
The High Court has issued a circular clarifying that victims of sexual assault and other crimes against women cannot be barred from engaging personal...
Writ seeks probe into ex-minister Saifuzzaman鈥檚 reported property of Tk 2,770cr in UK
A Supreme Court lawyer on Thursday filed a writ petition seeking a directive to investigate by the government authorities the reported Tk 2,770 crore property of former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury in the United Kingdom...
Convicted JL leader admits hiring proxy
A city Juba League leader facing a seven-year jail term on Thursday told the High Court that his lawyers advised him to hire a person to go behind the bar instead of him...
Iran jails filmmaker Rasoulof
An Iranian court has sentenced prominent filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof to jail time for 鈥榗ollusion against national security鈥�, his lawyer Babak Paknia said Wednesday...
Notice asks DCs, SPs to remove 3-wheelers from highways
A legal notice has been served to the district administrations to implement a High Court verdict which asked them to prohibit movement of unauthorised three-wheelers, known as Nasiman or Kariman or Bhatbhati, on highways to prevent road accident...
US threatens ICC
THE International Criminal Court is a dusty jewel, a creation of heat, tension and manufacture in the international community. Various elements have gone into its creation. As with any international institution which draws its legitimacy from nation states and the like...
Case backlog caught in warp of inaction on several fronts
THE chief justice has said that a total of only 2,000 judges struggle to dispose of more than four million cases pending with courts. He made the remark on May 7 as he inaugurated a television show that Bangladesh Television will telecast to create awareness of laws and rights...