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 Supreme Court today upheld a High Court order that asked the government to stop the operations of Maizea Advance Agro Refinery (MAAR) Limited, a dry starch powder producing company, for polluting environment at Shahpur area in Habiganj’s Madhabpur upazila.
The Supreme Court has directed United Hospital authorities today to pay -- as initial payment -- Tk 25 lakh each to the families of four victims who were killed in a fire at the hospital’s isolation unit on May 27 last year.
Three leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam were placed on remand for different terms in two cases filed with Paltan Police Station over last month’s violence in Dhaka.
Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has reconstituted four High Court benches for virtually holding hearing and disposing of “very urgent cases”, except for anticipatory bail petitions.
Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir today failed to secure anticipatory bail from the High Court in a case filed over the death of a college student at a flat in Dhaka's Gulshan area on April 26.
Another writ petition was filed with the High Court today seeking necessary directives in connection with the incidents of killing and injuring workers of the SS Power I Plant in Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram between 2016 and April 17 this year.
A total of 20,039 under trial prisoners, including 246 minors, were released from jails after they secured bail from virtual courts across the country in last 11 working days.
The High Court warned Supreme Court lawyer Md Eunus Ali Akond today for filing writ petitions as public interest litigation without being an aggrieved person.
A total of 211 minors accused in criminal cases got released from jail on bail granted by virtual courts concerned during the last eight working days.
Mamunul Haque, former joint secretary general of Hefajat-e-Islam, today said he went to Baitul Mukarram at the request of a DIG-ranked police official on March 26.
