Yoon stunned the nation and the international community Tuesday night by imposing martial law for the first time since the 1980s and deploying troops and helicopters to parliament, but lawmakers managed to vote down the decree, forcing Yoon to rescind the order in the early hours of Wednesday...
South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol was still clinging to power Thursday, with his party announcing they will oppose an impeachment motion after his short-lived imposition of martial law stunned the world.
THE reported involvement of law enforcers in mugging in Dhaka underscores the significance of major police reform. Four people, including two Rapid Action Battalion and police personnel, were arrested on December 2 on charges of their being involved in mugging at the Dhaka airport. Allegations against a section of police personnel over involvement in crimes, including abduction, extortion, smuggling...
PASSPORT, road transport administration, law enforcement and judicial services have come up to be the top four corrupt services sectors from 2017 to 2023, as Transparency International Bangladesh surveys for 2023, 2021 and 2017, the latest three of the surveys that the corruption watchdog have published since 1997, show. In the 2021 and 2017 surveys, the most corrupt service sectors were the same and in the...
South Korea鈥檚 president Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday declared emergency martial law, saying the step was necessary to protect the country from 鈥榗ommunist forces鈥� amid parliamentary wrangling over a budget bill.
A former Awami League lawmaker for reserved seat, Safia Khatun, was arrested Saturday evening at Balughat of Pallabi area in the capital in the case of killing Akram Khan Rabbi during the July-August mass uprising.
Business leaders have urged the government to take immediate steps to improve the law and order situation, and ensure energy supply to address their challenges in operating business activities.
Awami League鈥檚 former lawmaker for reserved seat for women actress Suborna Mustafa and her husband filmmaker Badrul Anam Saud were barred from flying aboard at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Saturday morning...
Four days after lawyer Saiful Islam Alif had been hacked to death in Chattogram, a murder case was filed with the Kotwali police against 31 named and 10鈥�15 unidentified people early Saturday...
Leaders and activists of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh on Friday held a protest rally in Dhaka demanding a ban on the International Society for Krishna Consciousness and protesting the murder of lawyer Saiful Islam Alif in Chattogram.
Australian lawmakers moved a step closer to banning under 16s from social media platforms Wednesday, threatening companies that fail to comply with multimillion-dollar fines...
British lawmakers will hold a landmark debate on Friday on a divisive and emotive bill that could set the UK on its way to legalising assisted dying for terminally ill people...
The police detained 27 people till Wednesday evening amid protests in Dhaka as elsewhere over the killing of lawyer Saiful Islam Alif in Chattogram city and clashes with the law enforcers over the arrest of a Hindu organisation鈥檚 leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari...
Home adviser lieutenant general Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (retired) on Sunday said that retired members of various law enforcement agencies would be appointed in controlling traffic in the capital...
THIS is unfortunate that 12 years after the Tazreen Fashions fire that left at least 119 workers dead and 176 more workers injured on November 24, 2012, the victims and affected families are still denied justice. After the fire, the media reported violations of labour law, including the storage of flammable substances on factory premises, a lack of fire exits...
The National Review Committee on the Ministry of Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources on Sunday requested the interim government to hire a reputed legal and investigative firm to assist in its review of major power generation contracts signed during the Sheikh Hasina regime between 2009 and 2024...
USING force by law enforcement is critical to maintaining public order and ensuring safety. However, it remains a highly contentious issue, often scrutinised for its ethical, legal and practical implications. While police forces globally are entrusted with considerable authority, including the power to use physical force, their actions must be carefully regulated...
A court in Jhalakathi on Thursday sent a former Awami League lawmaker for the Jhalakathi-1 constituency, Barrister Shahjahan Omar, to jail in a case over vandalising the Kathalia unit office of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 2023...
The Tabligh Jamaat faction led by Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi of India on Friday took control of the Kakrail Mosque for next two weeks as their rival group led by Zubair Ahmed left the place to avoid any...
Cases pending under repealed provisions of Bangladesh鈥檚 Information and Communication Technology Act should be dropped, the Clooney Foundation for Justice鈥檚 TrialWatch Initiative and Centre for Governance Studies said in a report released on Saturday...
Thousands of protesters marched through central London on Saturday calling for tougher immigration laws, in a heavily policed march after the arrest of a far-right leader...
Police have arrested former lawmaker Barrister Sayedul Haque Sumon from Mirpur.
Law and justice division secretary Md Golam Rabbani went into retirement on Wednesday...
A delegation of the national law enforcement agency of the United Kingdom, National Crime Agency on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on Bangladesh鈥檚 Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime chief Md Masud Karim at his office in Dhaka...
The Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday evening arrested former Awami League lawmaker for Sunamganj-5 constituency Mohibur Rahman Manik from Bashundhara residential area in Dhaka.
A group of Supreme Court lawyers on Monday submitted a 鈥榗harter of demands鈥� to Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed, demanding the resignation of judges accused of 鈥榩olitical bias and...
THERE is an urgent need to set standards for labour practices across sectors, as experts at a discussion that the Solidarity Centre and the Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies organised in Dhaka on October 5, as the labour law and related regulations fail to universally protect workers. The discussants have also highlighted the loopholes in the labour law...
Business leaders on Saturday sought better business climate in the country and said that issues like law and order situation, rising interest rates and other macroeconomic challenges must be addressed as these factors have impacted the economy negatively...
Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested former Awami League-backed lawmaker Shahidul Islam Milon, elected from Jashore Sadar constituency, from Dhaka鈥檚 Gulistan area on Thursday.
The National Board of Revenue has formed a task force to reform the income tax law with the objective of making the rules people- and business-friendly...