The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today stayed for eight weeks the High Court order that directed United Hospital authorities to pay Tk 30 lakh in fifteen days as initial payment to each of the families of four victims, who were killed in a fire at its isolation unit on May 27 last year.

A Dhaka court today ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze 18 bank accounts and seize documents of 40 scheduled immovable properties of former lawmaker from Pirojpur AKMA Awal and his wife Laila Parvin in two graft cases.

The High Court today upheld its ad-interim order of injunction, restraining the authorities concerned of all media from publishing, broadcasting any statement, comment, interview and conversation of anyone accused and convicted of non-bailable and cognisable offences in TV news and talk shows with regard to the cases pending before the court or investigating agency -- till further order.

A Dhaka court today sentenced three people to death for killing Shamsun Nahar and her 17-year-old son Sajjadul Karim Shaon in Dhaka's Kakrail area in 2017.

Most of the accused of 25 rape cases, filed between 2012 and 2016, are out on bail though bail is not applicable for punishable offence under Women and Children Repression Act 2000, according to findings by Manusher Jonno Foundation.

A writ petition was filed with the High Court today, seeking its order on the government to amend the relevant law treating the violation of males as rape.

The High Court today issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain in four weeks why they should not be directed to mandatorily record fingerprints and iris scans of all citizens, including children during their birth registration.

Twenty-two officials of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited (BCMCL), including six former managing directors, were freed on bail from Dinajpur jail this morning.

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World Press Freedom Day was observed on May 03, 2019. The day, which commemorates the Declaration of Windhoek, was first proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993.

Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA) organised the launching of “Case Management in Reducing Case Backlog:

April 23 marks the anniversary of the birth or death of a range of well-known writers, including Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Maurice

Country's maiden Model Law Commission titled “Principal M. Wazhiullah Model Law Commission and Legislative Process Simulation 2019” has been held on 5th of April at Collegiate School and College.

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The Norwegian Nobel committee said that Denis Mukwege, a doctor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, and Nadia Murad, a 25-year-old Yazidi activist, had been awarded the prize “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict”.

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