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Selim Khan

Graft case Lakshmipur UP chairman gets anticipatory bail

The court also asked Md. Selim Khan to surrender before the trial court after four weeks

Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen

Lawyer moves to SC seeking Momen's disqualification

A writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court (SC), challenging the legality of AK Abdul Momen holding the office of the foreign minister

Election Commission Logo

Why has EC again sought authority to cancel polls: SHUJAN

SHUJAN thinks the existing constitutional structure undoubtedly is a huge hindrance for holding a free, fair and objective election. The commission has to tell the government clearly to remove the ...

Supreme Court building

Houses of Speaker, Deputy Speaker on JS premises legal: SC

On 21 June, 2004, the High Court passed an order on the petition saying the construction of the new buildings were illegal and directed to declare the National Parliament House as “national heritage”

Editorial

Executive magistrate’s judicial power: Case remains pending unwarranted

The government has not fully implemented the 12-point directives mentioned in the verdict of the Masdar Hossain case. Rather, the authorities of the executive magistrates have been increased through ...

Biden to sign executive order to help safeguard access to abortion, contraception

Biden to sign executive order to help safeguard access to abortion, contraception

Biden, a Democrat, has been under pressure from supporters, particularly progressives, to take action after the landmark decision, which upended roughly 50 years of protections for women's ...

Indian Supreme Court

Nupur Sharma ‘should apologise to the whole country’: SC

The bench said on her complaint a person is arrested, but despite multiple FIRs she has not yet been touched by Delhi police

Supreme Court of Bangladesh

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, ...

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