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12 Supreme Court judges infected with Covid: Chief Justice

Twelve justices of the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division and High Court division have been infected with Covid-19. Chief justice Hasan Foez Siddique revealed the information at the beginning of the ...

An abortion rights demonstrator holding a pan chants slogans as they march near the State Capitol in Austin, Texas, 25 June 2022.

Abortion pills to become next battleground in US reproductive fight

As conservative US states rush to enact abortion bans following the Supreme Court's bombshell decision, the fight over reproductive rights in America is poised to shift to a new battleground

High Court

Graft case against Tarique, Zubaida HC asks trial court to dispose of case soon

As both of them remained fugitive, the court rejected the writ petitions of the two saying these are not acceptable, said ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan

Abortion rights demonstrators gather near the State Capitol in Austin, Texas, on 25 June 2022

Roe v. Wade case Fresh protests as new US abortion reality takes shape

The deeply polarised country grappled with a new level of division: between states that will now or soon deny the right to abortion, enshrined since 1973, and those that still allow it

People gather to protest in response to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, in Houston, Texas, US 24 June, 2022

US Supreme Court strikes down right to abortion

The US Supreme Court on Friday struck down the right to abortion in a seismic ruling that shredded five decades of constitutional protections and prompted several right-leaning states to impose ...

Shooting range owner John Deloca prepares his pistol at his range in Queens, New York on 23 June, 2022

Supreme Court says Americans have right to carry guns in public

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a fundamental right to carry a handgun in public, a landmark decision with far-reaching implications for states and cities across the country ...

Supreme Court of Bangladesh

SC acquits two death-row convicts, commutes sentence of another

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday acquitted two death-row convicts and commuted the sentence of another in a case for killing a woman and her daughter in 2008

Dr Muhammad Yunus

SC stays trial proceedings of case against Yunus for 2 months

The Appellate Division on Monday stayed for two months the trial proceedings of a case filed against nobel laureate and chairman of Grameen Communications Muhammad Yunus over violation of Labour Law, ...

State minister for information and communication technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed at the inauguration programme of online cause list, judicial monitoring dashboard and My Court App in the city arranged jointly by the Law and Justice Division and UNDP Bangladesh.

Judiciary to be fully digitised within two years: Zunaid

State minister for information and communication technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed has said the country's judiciary system will be made fully digitised within the next two years

US president Joe Biden attends a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on May 23, 2022

US Supreme Court seeks Biden views on WhatsApp 'Pegasus' spyware dispute

The US Supreme Court on Monday asked president Joe Biden's administration to weigh in on whether the justices should hear a case on whether Meta Platforms Inc's WhatsApp can pursue a lawsuit accusing ...

High Court

HC defers Tarique-Zubaida’s hearing in corruption case

The High Court (HC) has deferred till 5 June the hearing on a rule issued against the proceedings of a corruption case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) during 1/11 against BNP acting ...

Selim Khan

Meghna river Appellate Division cancels HC order on Selim Khan’s sand extraction

The Appellate Division has cancelled an order the High Court division pronounced four years ago allowing Selim Khan to extract sand from shoals of Meghna river

Supreme Court of Bangladesh

Writ petition seeks directions to set up RTI desk in SC

Though the Supreme Court is a constitutional body there is no specific information desk or officer, said the petition

Haji Salim

Haji Salim seeks quashing of 10-year prison term

His lawyer Syed Ahmed Raza submitted the petition to the appellate division of the apex court on Tuesday.

Article 19 commends India’s top court ruling to hold colonial-era sedition law

Article 19 commends India’s top court ruling to hold colonial-era sedition law

Article 19 commends Indian Supreme Court order to hold controversial colonial-era sedition law until the government completes its review of the sedition provision, said a statement on Sunday.

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