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 exonerated Grameen Telecom Chairman and Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus and its Managing Director Md Ashraful Hasan from personal appearance before the court in connection with a contempt of court rule.
A Dhaka court will decide on April 1 whether to accept the charges brought against 10 people, including Khandaker Mohtesam Hossain Babar, brother of former minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, in the Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.
A sedition case was filed against BNP leader Mizanur Rahman Minu, also an adviser to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, and four other party leaders today.
Three teachers of a madrasa were placed on remand today in a case filed over murder of a student of the same madrasa in Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj.
The High Court has ordered law enforcers to prevent 122 loan defaulters of People’s Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (PLFSL) from leaving the country.
A Dhaka tribunal today gave the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of police 30 more days to complete the probe in a Digital Security Act case filed against cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, and nine others.
A Rangamati court today sentenced a member of the banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh to 10-year imprisonment in a case filed under the Explosive Substances Act.
The High Court today asked why SK Sur Chowdhury, former deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank, and its Executive Director Shah Alam were not arrested yet for assisting PK Halder in embezzling and laundering huge amount of public money from four non-banking financial institutions.
A Cox’s Bazar court framed charges against an employee of Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) in a defamation case of Tk 100 crore filed by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will be able to go to any hospital to avail treatment as per doctor’s advice but she will not be allowed to go abroad. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal disclosed the conditions as the government extended the suspension of Khaleda Zia's jail sentence for six more months.
