Mohammad Ali
The resignation of the Law Commission’s chairman indicates that the government does not want the judiciary to be independent in the real sense, and is against rule of law to be established in the country.Talking to The New Nation, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Khandker Mahbub Hossain yesterday said Justice Mohammad Abdur Rashid, [...]

Staff Reporter
Viqarunnissa Noon School and College, the best reputed women educational institution in the country, will lose from now on the brilliant and meritorious students following introduction of lottery system in admission, claimed Guardians Forum of the school yesterday.The forum also alleged that this system would encourage bribes and corruption during admission and the institution [...]

UNB, Dhaka
BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain on Thursday alleged that the government is conspiring to force Khaleda Zia to leave the country.Addressing a roundtable as chief guest, he said the government would not take the move for evicting Khaleda Zia from her Cantonment residence if she was not the BNP chairperson.Delwar said: “As she [...]

UNB, Dhaka
Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque has begun taking opinion of jurists and leaders of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) before making up his mind about administering oaths to the remaining two “controversial” additional judges of the High Court.On September 30, soon after assuming the office, the Chief Justice told the media that he [...]

Al Jazeera and agencies
Pakistan’s supreme court has asked MPs to review a constitutional amendment that would see senior court judges appointed by a parliamentary committee, delaying a potential divisive change to the relationship between the judiciary and the government.The ruling on Thursday came after legal challenges were launched against a number of parts of the [...]

Mamunur Rashid
The number of diarrhoea patients, mostly children, is on the rise due to scattered throwing and dumping of garbage, inadequate supply of clean water, excessive heat-wave and frequent power outages in the city and its suburbs, officials said yesterday.Experts blamed unplanned dumping of unhygienic garbage even on city’s main roads, supply of polluted water [...]

Staff Reporter
Key Awami League (AL) leaders vehemently blasted BNP leader SQ Chowdhury’s remark on Khaleda Zia’s cantonment residence terming it as provocative and seditious statement.Mentioning the statement that the army will resolve the issue even after the High Court judgment, the ruling party leaders said, “Such statement is a sheer treason. It may create [...]

Mostafa Kamal Majumder
The upper echelon of the national administration is learnt to have been against banning religion-based politics. Ministers have reportedly been asked to assuage leaders of the religion-based parties and, if necessary, talk to them except those of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh. Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed on the other hand said last week that [...]

Staff Reporter
About 100 police personnel were sent to the remote areas of Hatiya in Noakhali after being informed about the massacre by a forest gang, reports bdnews24.com. Noakhali police superintendent Harunur Rashid Hazari said, “We have launched a drive to arrest those attempting to create panic amongst the people.”Hazari on Sunday said, “At [...]

Staff Reporter
At least 30 persons including job seekers were injured and an Army vehicle was set ablaze when the primary selected recruits aided by local youths locked in a clash with law enforcers at an Army recruiting camp at Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Pratishtan (BKSP) compound in Ashulia on Monday. According to the police, a large [...]