All trial proceedings of lower courts in Dhaka were suspended today due to the death of Dhaka District and Sessions Judge's Court Public Prosecutor Khandaker Abdul Mannan.

A 2020 report by Bangladesh Institute on Labour Studies shows that 729 workers suffered from workplace death of which 384 were employed in the transport sector, 84 in construction sector and 67 in agriculture.

Lectures on Company Law by Mohammad Towhidul Islam, PhD is the amalgamation of his lecture notes which he had prepared in the course of his teaching the subject during the early years of his career.

Kawser Ahmed (KA): If you check the 2nd Cycle UPR report of Bangladesh, you will find that death penalty was reported to have been restricted to most serious and heinous crimes.

This write-up compiles notable pronouncements of the Appellate Division (AD) and the High Court Division (HCD) of the Supreme Court (SC) of Bangladesh from 2020.

The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges across all aspects of public and private life all over the world, including Bangladesh.

The Jatiya Sangsad of Bangladesh went into session for a total of 10 times in 2020; only 4 of them since the COVID-19 outbreak.

"The Parliament sat for 4 sessions since the COVID-19 outbreak and a total of 10 sessions in 2020. Despite the limitations, a significant number of laws and amendments were passed. A total of 27 Acts were passed, of which 8 were amendments. This infographic highlights some of the significant laws passed in 2020."

Internal relocation alternative is one of the doctrines recently developed to determine refugee or asylum seeker status in a host country. It basically examines whether the asylum seeker has exhausted all his opportunities of relocation in his country of origin during status seeking.

Bangladesh’s Globe Biotech is the only company, globally, to be listed with three vaccine candidates – DNA plasmid vaccine, Adenovirus Type 5 Vector and D614G variant LNP-encapsulated mRNA and other companies have one or two varieties.

A ustria’s constitutional court has struck down a law prohibiting primary school children from wearing specific head coverings having religious significance.

Laws are meant to regulate the behavior of human beings with the conformity of equality, equity, fairness and justice.

The Bangladesh Chapter of the Network for International Law Students (NILS) with the event support of Liberation War Museum organised the 2nd International Law Fest 2020 from 17 to 19 December 2020.

The National River Conservation Commission recently published the Draft National River Conservation Commission Act 2020 soliciting opinions on the Bill.

I work in the Human Recourse Department of a reputed multinational company. I am not very informed about the gratuity scheme and associated income tax benefits, as I hear different opinions from within my peer group. We would appreciate if you can enlighten us on the matter.

How problematic the constituency activities of our MPs may appear, parliament members’ constituency work is considered necessary in all types of representative democracies. Professor Philip Norton of the UK House of Lords has outlined at least seven aspects of the MPs’ constituency work.

Professor M Rafiqul Islam has been declared a Professor Emeritus of Macquarie University at its 498th Council Meeting held on 10 December, 2020.

The COVID-19 pandemic posed a significant threat to the migrant workers all around the world. Migrant workers from Bangladesh, among others, were one of the worst sufferers.

International Migrant Workers Rights Day is globally observed on 18 December. Migration is an impactful term drawing increasing attention across the world.

School of Law, BRAC University in collaboration with the Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs division, Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh jointly organised the workshop titled ‘Legislative Research for Identification of Discriminatory Provisions in Existing Laws of Bangladesh’ held on 12 December, 2020 at BCDM Savar.