Ainer Vab O Ovab

Ainer Vab O Ovab (the art and inert of laws), authored by Dr. S M Masum Billah, is one of those books that you should not judge by its cover. The gloomy looking,
18 March 2019

Is the 1972 scheme of parliamentary system dead?

History of our parliaments is full of frequent ups and downs.
18 March 2019

MENSTRUATION HYGIENE MANAGEMENT

Menstruation is painful, socially awkward, quite expensive and most of the time very problematic to manage for the girls and women
11 March 2019

Positive discrimination can ensure gender balance

Professor Dr. Shahnaz Huda has been teaching law at the University of Dhaka since 1989, specialising in personal and comparative
11 March 2019

Does culture and tradition always undermine women's human rights?

The (in) compatibility of women's human rights and custom, culture and tradition is one of the contested areas where women's rights
11 March 2019

Shifting the paradigm of loan defaulter's liability

This is a crucial time in Bangladesh to find out the ways to reduce the default loan in the banking system, in a scenario where the amount of default loan is above 99 thousand crore taka only in 2018. All the stakeholders including the new Government of Bangladesh are searching ways to reduce this default loan. In this writing, I am trying to find out the way of reducing default loans through shifting the paradigm of liability of the defaulter from civil to criminal liability.
4 March 2019

Low wages affect basic amenities of workers

The economy of Bangladesh is booming due to massive profits the RMG industry is making in Bangladesh. According to the latest figures from the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), the RMG sector contributed USD 30.61 billion, or 83.49 percent, to Bangladesh's total exports of USD 36.66 billion, during the last fiscal year of 2017-18.
4 March 2019

11th Parliament: Rays of hope for the committee system

Thomas Brackett Reed, once the minority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives branded the parliamentary committees as “the eye, the hand and the brain” of the legislature.
4 March 2019

University of Dhaka, the national champion of Jessup 2019

From the 31 participating teams, University of Dhaka emerged as the champion of Jessup Bangladesh 2019, and Eastern University as the runner-up team.
25 February 2019

Fire incidents and our negligence

On 10 June, 2010, the High Court Division(HCD) of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh ordered the government formed probe
25 February 2019

MAKING BANGLADESH AN ATTRACTIVE FDI DESTINATION : Challenges and options

FDIs have two competing interests: economic development for host states and profit maximisation for foreign investors. It is the lure
25 February 2019

Towards creating an indigenous legal corpus in Bangla

Arif Khan is an Advocate at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He studied law from the University of Dhaka. He is one of the co-founders of Reading Club, a Dhaka University based platform for enthusiastic readers and young scholars.
18 February 2019

The long forgotten law of probation of offenders

Very recently, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh Syed Mahmud Hossain has directed the judges to apply to a forgotten law of the 1960s, namely the Probation of Offenders Ordinance 1960, to reduce the pressure on prison and to implement 'corrective'
18 February 2019

How does the Bar Council Tribunal function

All lawyers who practice in Bangladesh must maintain the ethical standards imposed by the Bangladesh Bar Council. As an arm of the
18 February 2019

Indian SC answers a pertinent property question

The Supreme Court of India (SCI) granted relief to a party, who was misled to purchase a property by erroneous representation of title by the vendor.
11 February 2019

Restraining Coaching business or teachers?

On 7 February 2019, the High Court Division (HCD) delivered a judgment on the legality of a policy promulgated by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in 2012 on limiting the involvement of teachers in the coaching business.
11 February 2019

Circumventing the legitimate interest of Bangladesh

IN one of the previous write-ups published on 15 January 2019 in The Daily Star, I have discussed about the rigidity and partisanism in the arbitration law and panels of the Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
11 February 2019

ICC jurisdiction and Non-party States

The coming into force of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 1 July 2002 was an unprecedented
4 February 2019

Is punitive action enough to prevent abuse of drug?

Although Bangladesh is not a drug producing country, in terms of geographical location, it is juxtaposed between the golden and
4 February 2019

Rivers are now 'legal persons'

Taking duly into account a report titled “Time to declare Turag dead” was published in The Daily Star on November 6, 2016, Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB) filed a writ petition challenging legality of earth-filling, encroachment and construction of
4 February 2019