Staff Reporter
The High Court (HC) yesterday declared the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution void, illegal and made without lawful authority.The amendment passed in the parliament in 1986 legalised take-over of state power by Let Gen (Retd) Hussain Muhammad Ershad and all the acts under his military rule.The court also declared illegal military take-over of Ershad; [...]

Mostafa Kamal Majumder
As High Court Division Bench of the Supreme Court yesterday declared the 7th amendment of the Constitution that legitimised the Martial Law proclamations and regulations of Gen. HM Ershad, constitutional experts in Dhaka wondered whether the Members of Parliament who passed the amendment should also not be accountable for the same.The High [...]

DU Correspondent
A group of Dhaka University (DU) students yesterday vandalised nearly a dozen of vehicles at TSC area following a road mishap that injured a DU teacher.The injured teacher was identified as Prof Dr Sukomol Barua of the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies.Eyewitnesses said Prof Barua was returning his residence from the campus [...]

BSS, Dhaka
The anthrax has spread in new areas, infecting 165 people, including 38 anew in last 24 hours, a senior health official said on Thursday, urging people not to be panicked as the disease is both preventable and curable.Director of Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Dr Mahmudur Rahman said anthrax has spread [...]

bdnews24.com, Dhaka
The High Court has asked the government to submit all documents related to the lease of BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s Cantonment house within September 27. The bench of Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana and Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif on Monday gave the order upon a petition by the leader of the main opposition, Khaleda. The [...]

Staff Reporter
The election of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) will be held at a convenient time between mid-September and mid-November, while the Union Parishad (UP) and Municipal (Pourasabha) elections in December and January. Election Commissioner Sohul Hossain said this while he was talking with reporters at his Sher-e-Bangla Nagar office in the city yesterday. [...]

bdnews24.com, Dhaka
Confusions have arisen over a possible mishap at the Bibiyana gas field.Chevron, which operates the gas field in the northeastern district of Habiganj, in a statement said several tremors were felt in the gas field on Sunday evening.Their assertion is not widely shared, though.The meteorological office, the designated agency in this regard, did not [...]

Nepalnews.com
The fifth round of prime ministerial election also proved futile as both the prime ministerial candidates, Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Nepali Congress vice president Ram Chandra Poudel, failed to garner sufficient votes to get elected to the post that requires 301 votes in favour.The voting could not produce results as the CPN (UML) [...]

Staff Reporter
The High Court yesterday issued a three-week rule upon the government to explain why the Martial Law Regulation, under which Col Taher was sentenced to death in 1976, should not be declared unconstitutional.The court directed to produce records of the trial that sentenced also 10 others to different terms of imprisonment in connection with [...]

UNB, Dhaka
The Cabinet at a meeting on Monday approved the design of the long-awaited Dhaka Elevated Expressway (DEE).Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad informed this at a press briefing at the PID conference room after the meeting.The Dhaka Elevated Expressway has been planned to improve road connectivity between the northern part of Dhaka City [...]