IN THE aftermath of Bangladesh鈥檚 15-year dictatorship, the country finds itself grappling with the complexities of transitioning from autocratic rule to a democratic and just society. The fall of the regime, brought about by the July student-mass uprising, marked the end of a dark chapter in the nation鈥檚 history, where corruption, political oppression, and a lack...
Home affairs adviser lieutenant general (retired) Mohammad Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Thursday emphasised the need to raise public awareness about mob justice, saying...
Law, justice, and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on Thursday said that the interim government would take immediate action against those involved in mob justice, warning that no...
Former justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik has been shown arrested in six separate murder cases in Dhaka...
Md Golam Rabbani has been appointed as the full secretary of the Law and Justice Division of the law ministry...
India鈥檚 top court ordered authorities on Tuesday to pause demolishing private property as punitive action against people accused of criminal activity, condemning the so-called 鈥榖ulldozer justice鈥�.
Rokeya Begum, the mother of the High Court Division Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam, passed away on Tuesday afternoon at a hospital in Mymensingh.
Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Thursday forwarded a list of 64 victims of enforced disappearances to the newly established five-member commission, directing...
Journalists on Tuesday launched a forum titled Journalists for Justice to work for journalists and media workers oppressed during the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of deposed former prime minister Sheikh Hasina...
AT LAMA upazila in Bandarban, different companies have been active for a long time in their attempts to grab jum lands and hill ecosystems to establish rubber gardens. One such hill is called 鈥榮oroi hung鈥� 鈥� soroi hill 鈥� in the Mro language. The Lama Rubber Industries Limited exists on 400 acres of forcefully grabbed jum land and hill forest of soroi hung...
JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France has expressed deep concern and protested against the tragic killing of 14-year-old Swarna Das, a schoolgirl who was fatally shot by the Indian Border Security Force, on the night of September 1 at the Lalarchak border area of Sharifpur Union, Kulaura, Moulvibazar.
Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed has nominated Justice Md Rezaul Haque to settle the urgent matters related to the cases of the Appellate Division during the vacation from September 8 to October 17.
Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed will deliver a speech addressing lower court judges on September 21, when he will outline a roadmap focusing on the judiciary鈥檚 independence, institutional separation, and autonomy...
The Supreme Court administration under the directive of Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed distributed relief among 250 families in the flood-affected area of Feni and Noakhali on Thursday...
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese electric car imports, matching US measures seeking to fend off a flood of Chinese state-subsidized cars into North America...
Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital administration formed an eight-member medical board on Sunday evening for the treatment of former Supreme Court justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik...
Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Sunday directed that the lawyers of the defendants must be allowed to attend court proceedings without any...
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...
AMID the flash flood and imminent landslide risk, reported incidents of rape and rape attempts are an added concern for the national minorities living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. A rape and two cases of rape attempts were filed in the three hill districts in August 22鈥�23. A group of Bengali men on August 22 dragged an elderly woman and her daughter out of...
The chief justice, Syed Refaat Ahmed, on Sunday ordered ensuring defendants鈥� lawyers鈥� presence within any hindrance to courts...
Former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque was prosecuted on Sunday for changing the Supreme Court verdict on the caretaker government system...
Chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Thursday formed 50 new benches of the High Court Division to hold proceedings from Sunday.聽
THIS is disheartening and morally perplexing to see relatives of victims of enforced disappearances holding protests between their visiting the headquarters of the law enforcement agencies seeking information on members of the families while the government has so far taken no decisive steps to end their unimaginable sufferings...
Chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Wednesday said that the judiciary was preferred to be more accountable to people....
Members of the families of those killed during the quota reform movement on Wednesday held a human chain at the Central Shaheed Minar demanding trial of Sheikh Hasina and those who ordered the shooting during the movement...
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.
Newly appointed Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed paid tributes to the martyrs of the Liberation War, Language Movement and recent Anti-Discrimination Student Movement by placing wreaths on Monday morning...
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...
Newly appointed Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed took oath of his office on Sunday...
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...