While addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva on June 28, 2022, Mechelle Bachelet, the UN human rights chief, raised an important point on the rise in disinformation across societies, remarking that systemic inequality has helped fuel a rise in the deliberate spreading of falsehoods.
Digital commerce platform Evaly was noted amongst customers for its frequent, and generous discounts and cashback offers. However, complaints eventually started piling up regarding delay in delivery as well as non-delivery of products. Owing to the diverse catalogue of products offered on evaly, the losses incurred by consumers are also varying from small to rather significant amounts.
In continuation of the series of events organised by the Liberation War Museum (LWM) on the occasion of the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a virtual discussion titled ‘The Judicial Process of Bangabandhu Murder Case and Its Verdict’ was held on the last evening of the mournful August.
Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is perhaps one of the most hyped-up terminologies in this version of the digital era and is no longer alien to the people at large.
A virtual dialogue on Industrial Safety of the RMG Sector during the Post-Accord-Alliance Period on 11 July 2021 was organised by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Bangladesh.
The 2nd Professor Shah Alam Constitutional Law Virtual Moot Court Competition organised by Empowerment through Law of the Common People (ELCOP) was held from 24-27 June. A total of 26 teams representing different universities of Bangladesh have participated in this virtual moot court competition.
Society cannot be free of crimes by only handing out rigorous punishment like death sentence and life imprisonment, Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain said today.
The family of a Jahangirnagar University student who has been missing for about a week has demanded for his safe return.
The High Court today directed S Alam Group, owner of SS Power I Plant of Banshkhali in Chattogram, to give Tk 5 lakh as initial cost to the family of each victim -- killed in police firing on April 17 this year.
Hefajat-e-Islam’s former joint secretary general Mamunul Haque and its Dhaka city unit’s former president Junayed Al Habib were placed on different terms of remand in five cases filed with Paltan Police Station over the 2013 mayhem and the recent violence in Dhaka.
A court in Chattogram placed Hefajat-e-Islam’s central leader Mufti Harun Izhar on nine-day remand today, in three cases filed with Hathazari Police Station over March 26 mayhem centring the recent visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Three Hefajat leaders were placed on remand, on different terms, today in three cases filed with Paltan and Motijheel police stations over the 2013 mayhem and the recent violence in Dhaka.
All ad-interim orders of the High Court, including those regarding bails, have been extended for the next four weeks due to the ongoing Covid-19 situation.
A High Court bench today refused to entertain a writ petition that sought its directive on the government to formulate comprehensive national short, mid- and long-term plan in order to prevent spread of Covid-19 and to vaccinate all vulnerable citizens -- irrespective of age.
Police have sought a 24-day remand for Mamunul Haque, the joint secretary general of the recently dissolved committee of Hefajat-e-Islam, and also prayed to a Narayanganj court to show him arrested in three cases filed with Sonargaon Police Station.
A Dhaka court today sent two owners of an unauthorised chemical warehouse to jail on completion of their three-day remand in a case filed over the devastating fire that killed six people in old Dhaka's Armanitola on April 23.
A Dhaka court today rejected a bail petition of Maulana Ihteshamul Haque Sakhi, former joint office secretary of Hefajat-e-Islam, and sent him to jail in a case filed with Paltan Police Station over the 2013 mayhem in Dhaka.
A total of 22,873 under-trial prisoners, including 289 children, have secured bail from virtual courts across the country in the last 13 working days.
