Law and Justice

Law and Justice
Supporters of US president Donald Trump climb on walls at the US Capitol during a protest against the certification of the 2020 US presidential election results by the US Congress, in Washington, US, on 6 January 2021

US justice officials outline Trump’s ‘brazen’ takeover bid

Lawmakers revisited tensions among government attorneys in the days leading to the violence, when Trump tried to install his own man at the top of the department

Editorial

Unfortunate that police allegedly file cases to collect money

It cannot be accepted that an innocent person who leaves home for workplace in the morning, suddenly turns into a criminal after facing police

Middle class and low income people are suffering due to abnormal rise in oil prices. Buyers are now buying edible oil in plastic bags at a price of Tk 20 as they cannot afford to buy a whole bottle. The photo was taken from Tejkunipara in Tejgaon on 8 February.

Social Justice Day Go set a watchman

The state is indeed responsible to ensure fair social justice. But people must seek it. We cannot possibly have a stable and secure life until we struggle for social justice

In this picture taken on 9 February 2022, Rita Begum, cleans a picture frame of her son Rakib Howlader, a 14-year-old boy who died during his arrest by the police in 2018, at her home in Dhaka

US sanctions have stopped Bangladesh killings: Rights activists

Dhaka and Washington normally have warm relations, co-operating on security issues and with Bangladesh often voting alongside the United States at the United Nations

Hasan Foez Siddique

Hasan Foez Siddique appointed new chief justice

Appellate Division justice Hasan Foez Siddique has been appointed as 23rd chief justice of Bangladesh. President Abdul Hamid appointed Justice Siddique as per article 95(1) of the constitution

PM Sheikh Hasina

How can USA shelter a killer: PM Hasina

Sheikh Hasina said that the USA always talks about democracy and human rights but it has yet to hand over killer Rashed to Bangladesh despite it having appealed before each of the American ...

Chief justice Syed Mahmud Hossain

Chief Justice in farewell speech Formulation of law essential for appointment of judges

The chief justice said this in a valedictory speech at his farewell programme on Wednesday

File photo shows law minister Anisul Huq addressing the media.

Abrar Fahad murder Verdict proves existence of rule of law in country: Law minister

Law minister Anisul Huq on Wednesday said justice has apparently been served in Abrar Fahad murder case and the prosecution has been able to prove that rule of law exists in the country

Editorial

Crime cannot be quelled by ‘gunfights’

Why can the law enforcement agencies not arrest the accused alive? There is no answer to that

World Peace Conference 2021, Dhaka

World Peace Conference Ban Ki-moon, Brown among global figures to visit Bangladesh

Bangladesh did not invite any head of state or government to the conference but invited peace activists, writers, poets, singers and civil society members from different countries to join the ...

Information minister Hasan Mahmud talks to media

DSA for ensuring digital security of all: Info minister

Digital issue is now a reality and many countries have enacted such act while the rest are enacting such acts, said information and broadcasting minister Hasan Mahmud

GM Quader

The constitution is not in favour of democratic practice

The present system being termed as democracy can actually be called nothing other than autocracy. There is no system to balance power or ensure accountability. So it would not be an exaggeration to ...

Civil rights leader Malcolm X

Two men found guilty of Malcolm X murder to be exonerated

Two men found guilty of the 1965 assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X are to have their convictions thrown out, one of them posthumously, in an admission by US authorities of a historic ...

Editorial

Prompt action against the judge by the judiciary laudable

The prompt decision by the judiciary regarding Mst Kamrunnahar, judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-7, will definitely boost common people’s trust in the judicial system

How should the law to appoint the election commission be?

How should the law to appoint the election commission be?

The main reason that no law for the appointment of an election commission was drawn up over the past 50 years is that the politicians are unwilling to be bound by any form of regulations

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