From now on, only female magistrates will record statements of female and child victims of rapes and sexual harassment. The chief judicial magistrates and chief metropolitan magistrates have to assign female magistrates for recording statements of the victims.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday served a legal notice on the government, asking it to appoint 120 doctors at 68 jail hospitals across the country within seven days, to provide treatment to inmates.

The Supreme Court upholds the High Court orders that granted bail to former BNP state minister ANM Ehsanul Haque Milan in eight separate criminal cases filed in Chandpur.

A Supreme Court lawyer has filed a writ petition with the High Court (HC), challenging the legality of the appointments of the chief election commissioner (CEC) and four other election commissioners, claiming that no specific rules were formulated for their appointment.

The Supreme Court extends its earlier order that asked the authorities concerned to stop sand and earth filling in farmland and wetland around the Meghna River in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon upazila.

A Supreme Court lawyer sends a legal notice to two doctors of Dinajpur, accusing them of violating the High Court directive that ruled for writing prescriptions in capital letters or eligible manner so that the names of the medicine can be understood easily.

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the authorities concerned of the government to complete the process of recruiting 634 firemen.

The Supreme Court rules that the foreign films cannot be imported, distributed and displayed at the country’s cinema halls during the Eid-ul-fitr, Eid-ul-Azha, puja and Pahela Baishakh.

The Supreme Court stays a High Court rule asking the authorities concerned to explain why they should not be directed to close down Destiny 2000, the controversial multi-level marketing company.

A Supreme Court lawyer files a writ petition with the High Court seeking stay on election to Bangladesh Bar Council, the highest body for regulating the country's lawyers, which is scheduled to be held on May 14.

The Supreme Court administration directs the lower court judges to write the Bangla years and dates along with English ones in their judgments from now in order to show honour to the mother tongue -- Bangla.

The Supreme Court (SC) today approved a proposal for promotion of 128 additional district judges to the post of district judges.

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Sonali Bank to resume the process of recruiting manpower to 2,201 posts of senior officer, officer and cash officer.

Newly appointed Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain was sworn in yesterday as the 22nd chief justice of Bangladesh.

The Supreme Court Legal Aid Committee sends a letter to five jails including Dhaka Central Jail seeking a list of the prisoners aged above 75 years and details of them.

An eight-month-old child, who was deprived of his mother’s breastfeeding for around one and a half months, returns to his mother’s lap following a Supreme Court order.

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court order that cleared the way for the Senior Special Judge's Court-5 of Dhaka to continue trial proceedings of Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

The Supreme Court clears the way for the four accused, who were acquitted by the High Court in the sensational Biswajit murder case, to walk out of jail.

The Supreme Court extends time until December 3 for issuing a gazette notification on the disciplinary and conduct rules for lower court judges.

The government may file a petition with the Supreme Court this week, seeking a review of the verdict that scrapped the 16th