The Daily Star organised a roundtable titled ‘Rivers and Our Future’ on June 4, 2022. Here we publish a summary of the discussion.

The cabinet approved the draft Family Court Law, 2022 on July 3 with the view to implementing a Supreme Court judgment that declared all martial law regulations and orders promulgated during General Ershad’s regime as void.

Though an application raising preliminary objections is classified as an “incidental proceeding” before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), its outcome is very crucial in determining the prospects of a case before it.

On August 4, 2022 the Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka organised a special lecture event titled as “The ‘Ideology’ of the Postcolonial State: Some Critical Reflections on Nation-Building, Liberal Individualism, and Development”.

Ashraful Alam allias Hero Alam is a Bangladeshi freelancer music video model and actor active on social media. Some of his music videos went viral in 2015, and Alam became a popular target of online trolling and a popular subject of memes in Bangladesh.

30th July is observed around the globe as World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. This year, the theme of the Day is “Use and Abuse of Technology”. In

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons is celebrated to create more awareness about the offence of human trafficking.

Recently, the government has given the highest priority to the improvement of the energy business. In this context, the government has

Through the State Acquisition and Tenancy Act (STA) 1950, the long-standing traditional zamindari system was abolished and the ownership of the people over the land was established.

In general, the research conducted by the legal academe in Bangladesh has not engaged with judgments as much as is the case in some other jurisdictions.

In the last two decades, the inland maritime accidents have accelerated in the country and over six thousand people have lost their lives, were injured, or went missing in such accidents. By the beginning of 2022, several accidents have already occurred and over 50 people have lost their lives.

Recent incidents of violence by students and the increase of “teen gangs” have brought to the forefront talks on amending the definition of “children” in the

In a 6-3 Conservative majority decision, the Supreme Court of the United States has recently overturned almost the 50-year-old landmark abortion decision

One of the ugliest sides of a city is traffic jam and Dhaka city is in its ugliest shape in recent times.

Maternity benefit is a well-recognised statutory right of employed women across the world, including in Bangladesh.

David Ormon Carter is a Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. David began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office in 1972 where he became the senior deputy district attorney. 

Heavy rains along with the continued onslaught of water from upstream locations in India marooned Sylhet and the neighboring districts jeopardising the residents’ fundamental rights.

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.

Bangladesh is party to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). On ratification, the UNCAC created legal obligations which have to be enforced by the executive branch and/or the judiciary of the state parties.

Effortless smoking in public places or public transport is nothing new. To control smoking in these public places/transport, we have a special law called the Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) Act 2005.