Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan has submitted his resignation letter to the law ministry, confirmed law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on his verified Facebook account on Saturday.
Several hundred protesters, including students and lawyers, gathered on the Supreme Court premises and demanded the resignation of the chief justice and the judges of the Appellate Division on Saturday.
President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Thursday formed the interim government led by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus after taking opinions from the Supreme Court...
India鈥檚 Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to a top opposition politician who was detained last year over a long-running corruption probe...
Senior lawyer of the Supreme Court Md Asaduzzaman has been appointed as the attorney general for Bangladesh...
The Student Movement Against Discrimination on early Thursday demanded resignation of the chief justice and other Appellate Division justices by the morning to eliminate fascism from the country鈥檚 judiciary system...
The judicial activities of both the Appellate Division and the High Court Division of the Supreme Court will remain suspended until further order, said an official order issued on Wednesday night...
THE inspector general of police Deshabandu Tennakoon finds himself at the centre of a controversy that goes to the heart of Sri Lanka鈥檚 democracy. The Supreme Court has directed that he should be restrained from acting in the position of head of police until the court has fully considered all the petitions submitted against his appointment...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday issued contempt of court notices against lawyer Mohammad Mohsin Rashid and expatriate journalist Kanak Sarwar for making objectionable comments about the judiciary, Supreme Court and International Criminal Tribunal...
THE breach of Supreme Court guidelines in the wholesale arrest of citizens suspected of being involved in the violence born out of the student protests that have sought reforms in civil service job reservations is unacceptable. While it is worrying that law enforcement agencies keep largely ignoring the Appellate Division鈥檚 10-point guidelines of May 2016...
Law enforcement agencies are largely ignoring the Supreme Court guidelines while making blanket arrests of citizens on suspicion of their involvement in violence during the recent student protests...
A faction of the Supreme Court Bar Association on Thursday urged the government to stop arresting and harassing opposition leaders and activists without first identifying the perpetrators, responsible for the destruction of state properties during the student quota reform movement...
The Supreme Court and its subordinate courts would remain closed on Tuesday as the government announced the day, the fourth day of curfew, as general holiday, according to a SC release...
A notification on the order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court over quota reform is likely to be issued today or tomorrow, public administration minister Farhad Hossain said on Monday...
Law minister Anisul Huq said on Sunday that the government would issue a gazette notification on Tuesday regarding the quota in government jobs following the verdict delivered by the Supreme Court...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is set to hear the government appeal against the High Court verdict on quota in civil service recruitment at 10:00am today just as the curfew ends...
The Appellate Division has set July 21 for hearing a government recent petition that sought cancellation of the High Court鈥檚 June 5 verdict on maintaining quotas in...
THE question mark that hangs over the presidential election due in October this year is not going away. The answer to it keeps getting put off. The latest is the government鈥檚 proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate ambiguity in the term of the president from six to five years. The Supreme Court has thrice...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court scrapped the leave to appeal brought against a High Court judgement, upholding the admission cancellation of the 169 students of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College of the capital...
Pakistan鈥檚 Supreme Court on Friday granted jailed former prime minister Imran Khan鈥檚 party around 20 seats in parliament reserved for women and minorities, months after...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Dhaka South City Corporation to provide alternative accommodation for the...
The Appellate Division on Wednesday asked the Dhaka South City Corporation not to demolish and evict the residents of Miranzilla Harijan Sweepers Colony until it hears DSCC鈥檚 appeal filed against a High Court order prohibiting eviction of the sweepers鈥� residents within their location...
Calling the agitating students to go back to classrooms, ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said that the quota system reform issue in government jobs would be resolved through the Supreme Court hearing in the first week of August...
The Appellate Division on Wednesday ordered status quo for four weeks over a High Court verdict that asked the government authorities to restore a 30 per cent quota for the descendants of freedom fighters while recruiting officers in the civil service...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday summoned lawyer Mohammed Mohsen Rashid and journalist Kanak Sarwar for allegedly scandalising, demeaning and maligning the judiciary of Bangladesh in a talk-show...
The Newly elected executive committee of Law Reporters鈥� Forum for the tenure of 2024-2025 officially took over the office on Thursday from the outgoing committee in a ceremony at its office on the Supreme Court Bar Association compound.聽...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court again on Thursday refused to stay a High Court verdict that asked the government to restore the 30 per cent quota for the...
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that Donald Trump enjoys some immunity from prosecution as a former president, a decision set to delay his trial for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday set August 4 for hearing the arguments from the Newspapers Owners Association of Bangladesh president AK Azad on the recommendation made by the cabinet committee in 9th Wage Board Award for journalists and workers of newspapers and news agencies, regarding their income tax and gratuity...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will hear arguments from the Newspapers Owners Association of Bangladesh on a leave to appeal petition regarding the High Court judgment on the income tax of journalists and employees working in newspapers....