Law & Court

PROGGA – ATMA welcome Tobacco Control Law Amendment, Urge Swift Gazette

TDS Desk: Research and advocacy organization PROGGA (Knowledge for Progress) and the Anti-Tobacco Media Alliance (ATMA) have welcomed the government’s approval of the ‘Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) (Amendment)

Osman Hadi murder: Prime suspect’s wife, two others confess in court

TDS Desk: The wife, brother-in-law, and a close friend of Faisal Karim Masud, the prime suspect in the assassination of Inqilab Mancha leader Sharif Osman Hadi, have delivered confessional statements

Ex-BGB official, 3 others indicted over killing 28 people during July uprising

TDS Desk: International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday ordered commencement of trial against four people including ex-BGB officer Lieutenant Colonel Redwanul Islam in connection with the killing of 28 people in

Justice Zubayer Rahman made Bangladesh’s new Chief Justice

TDS Desk: President Mohammed Shahabuddin has appointed Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury as the 26th Chief Justice of Bangladesh. According to a gazette notification issued by the Ministry of Law, Justice

Another travel ban on Hasina, nearly 16 months after she fled to India

Staff Correspondent: A Dhaka court on Sunday (21 December) imposed a travel ban on ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India nearly 16 months ago following a mass

ICT indicts Hasina, 12 others in JIC enforced disappearance case

TDS Desk: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Thursday (18 December) framed charges against 13 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, in a case filed over enforced disappearances and