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Rudra’s literary works embody love, rebellion, social justice: discussion

Speakers, including lyricists and academicians, said that the literary works of poet Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah embodied love, rebellion and social justice...

Justice Hasan Foez Siddique new DG of JATI

The government on Sunday appointed former chief justice Hasan Foez Siddique as new director general of the Judicial Administration Training Institute...

Judiciary protects people’s 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’s...

7th death anniv of former CJ Latifur Rahman today

Today is the seventh death anniversary of former chief justice and former caretaker government chief adviser Latifur Rahman...

JICA launches project to enhance access to justice

The Japan International Cooperation Agency has rolled out its three-year-long ‘development of mediation and civil litigation practices for enhancement of access to justice’ project in Bangladesh, with an aim to establish a more accessible and efficient justice system in the country...

Israel’s backhanded apology was no apology at all

ON MAY 27, Israel appeared to ‘apologise’ for the deaths of 45 Palestinians resulting from its bombing raid on a ‘humanitarian zone’ in Rafah. By any measure, it was a backhanded apology that conveyed more insult than atonement. As Israeli apologies, even those that are insincere, are rare, it’s worth examining the background that led up to this one...

ICJ is collateral damage in dysfunctional global system: experts

Ignored by Russia and Israel, the International Court of Justice is hamstrung by a dysfunctional global system that sees countries comply with its rulings — or not — based on their own double standards, experts say....

1971 genocide deserves global recognition: CJ

Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan on Monday said that no other countries in the history of the world had witnessed such genocide in such a short span of time as Bangladesh saw in 1971...

ICJ orders Israel to halt assault on Rafah

The top United Nations court on Friday ordered Israel to halt military operations in Rafah ‘immediately’, a landmark ruling likely to increase mounting international pressure on...

Ringing true for Gaza

AS ISRAELI troops continue their assault in Rafah, increasing the death toll and displacing — yet again — hundreds of thousands of Gazans, there’s much to be learnt from recalling Dr Martin Luther King’s visionary words on Vietnam 57 years ago...

US justice dept trains 26 bank MDs of Bangladesh

The Association of Bankers Bangladesh, an organisation representing top bank officials, clarified that the United States Department of Justice’s Office of...

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...

Bureaucrats dominate NHRC, legal aid committee: CJ  

The chief justice Obaidul Hassan said on Tuesday said that bureaucrats were dominating the National Human Rights Commission and the National Legal Aid Services Organisation, instead of the judicial officers...

2,000 judges struggle with 40 lakh cases: CJ

The chief justice, Obaidul Hassan, said on Tuesday that a total of only 2,000 judges are struggling to dispose of more than 40 lakh cases pending with courts across the...

Plastics: an ocean justice crisis

AS THE fourth negotiating session on the United Nations plastics treaty comes to a close, pressing questions loom: Will world leaders finalise a robust agreement by the end of this year that effectively halts plastic pollution at its source? Despite the fortitude of countries within...

Canada arrests three over killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar

Canadian police on Friday arrested three men over the killing of a Sikh separatist in Vancouver last year, whose death has been linked to the Indian government, local media reported.

Chief Justice for collective efforts of all to make judiciary stronger

Kalpana abduction case dismissal makes travesty of justice

THE dismissal of the case of abduction of Hill Women’s Federation leader Kalpana Chakma 28 years after the event is a travesty of justice. A Rangamati judicial magistrate’s court on April 23 accepted the final report which..

Justice doesn’t require mandate but a new govt

ON APRIL 21, Sri Lanka passed the fifth year anniversary of the Easter Sunday bombing that took the lives of about 300 persons and injured and maimed many more. The bombers targeted Catholic and Christian churches that...

Abdul Jabbar Khan’s 40th death anniv today

The 40th anniversary of the death of Justice Abdul Jabbar Khan, a former speaker of the then Pakistan national assembly, will be observed with special prayer sessions today...

Nicaragua’s case against Germany arming Israel

AS ISRAEL’S genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza — which has killed more than 33,000 Gazans — enters its seventh month, Nicaragua sued Germany in the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or World Court) for facilitating genocide...

Israel’s blowback genocide

WORDS can’t express the horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have to be there under the bombs, fleeing with Palestinians desperately seeking a safe place that doesn’t exist; seeing building after...

Mexico takes Ecuador to int’l court over embassy raid

Mexico filed a lawsuit against Ecuador on Thursday at the International Court of Justice over the storming of its embassy in Quito, saying it wanted the South American country ‘suspended’ from the United Nations....

Germany faces Gaza genocide case at ICJ

Germany faces charges from Nicaragua at the top UN court on Monday that it is ‘facilitating the commission of genocide’ against Palestinians with its military and political support for Israel.....