With a view to increasing and nourishing the mooting capacity of law students, the Bangladesh chapter of Network for International Law Students commenced a one-month long mooting course which ended through a grand online closing ceremony on 26 September 2020.

It is now quite well-accepted that the demand for vehicle parking in Dhaka City exceeds the existing capacity. Common sense suggests that the solution is to increase the supply, and the government’s new draft parking policy seeks to do so.

The degradation of forest resources in Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) started since British rule due to settlement of plain land people there and nationalisation of CHT forests to protect the same from overexploitation by indigenous people.

Universal access to information means that everyone has the right to seek, receive and impart information. This right is an integral part of the right to freedom of expression.

On September 9, the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court passed the first-ever verdict under the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act, 2013 for the custodial death of one Ishtiaque Hossain Jonny.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created both challenges and opportunities for Bangladesh in terms of commerce and investments.

I am the owner of a private limited company and I have applied and being granted trademark registration for the logo of my business in the year 2015. However, recently, due to changes in the product types, lines and the overall strategy of the business,

International Equal Pay Day, celebrated for the first time this year last September 18, is a manifestation of the longstanding efforts towards the achievement of equal pay for work of equal value.

Size does matter when it comes to paper, particularly in legal works and court proceedings.

On 16th September, 2020, Department of Law, East West University organised a webinar titled "Prospects and Challenges of Geographical Indications in Ensuring Local and Community Developments'.

The proposed land law is an ambitious attempt to codify and bring together in a single place the general body of the land related laws.

The global concern during the current pandemic is human rights and their implementation. In this backdrop, the Lawyers and Jurists Foundation organised Digital Dialogue-9 on 11 September, 2020 about access to justice as human rights during pandemic.

Strategy of Environmental Development Foundation (SED Foundation), a non-profit organisation based in Dhaka, Bangladesh organised a webinar on the importance of rivers for the ecology and economy of Bangladesh and the role of National River Conservation Commission.

A Dhaka court today sentenced three policemen -- including former sub-inspector of Pallabi Police Station Jahidur Rahman -- to life imprisonment and two other accused to seven years' jail in the case filed over the custodial death of Ishtiaque Hossain Jonny in 2014.

Dr. Sabrina Chowdhury, the chairman of JKG Health Care, has recently been alleged by the Election Commission (EC) for having made two national identity (NID) cards back in 2016 through forgery.

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are active in some of the most dynamic sectors of national economies with the capacity to assert a positive influence in fostering development.

The notion of access to internet as a fundamental human right has been growing exponentially.

Professor M. Shah Alam, founding Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Chittagong, and former Chairman (Acting) of the Law Commission of Bangladesh died on 31st August 2020.

In general, the sources of law are initially either ‘formal source of law’ or ‘material source of law’, one from which a rule of law originates and derives its validity, force and authority and the other from which the same (law) derives the subject matter or content, respectively.

On 31 August 2020, Bangladesh lost its one of the best legal minds and leading international law scholars, Professor Dr M Shah Alam.