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Many e-commerce companies in the country are embezzling hundreds of crores of taka from people through their deceptive strategies of business promotion.However, it is not possible to take appropriate legal action in proper time due to lack of specific authority and laws, regulations, and policies.Th...
The government had taken a plan to digitise the country’s overall justice system under the e-judiciary project but no visible progress of the Tk 2,878 crore five-year project has yet been made. The plan of the e-judiciary system was taken some years back aiming to apply the Information an...
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The Election Commission (EC) is mulling to hold polls to all Union Parishads (UPs) across the country this year. Alongside the UP polls, the EC wants to complete the elections to Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC), Cumilla City Corporation (CCC), some municipalities and some by-polls in several...
Bangladesh has the highest number of laws, regulations and policies on safe food in the world. However, ensuring safe food still remains a major challenge in the country due to poor application of the laws and shortage of application tools.Experts on public health opined that the full implementation...
The government is moving forward to formulate a tightened law aiming to protect rivers, reservoirs and all other water sources in Bangladesh.After enactment of the proposed law, each division will have one or more special courts called ‘River Conservation Tribunal’, which will be linked ...
The government has planned to bring more discipline in the operation of the National Savings Certificate (NSC). As part of the plan, a fresh law has been designed in this regard to make the existing law time-befitting. The Finance Division has designed the proposed law.The provision of punishm...
A law has been designed to bring the private tour operators and tour guides under the legal framework. Registration has been made mandatory for the touring companies under the provisions of the proposed law.Now, there is no law or guideline or rules for the tour operators and guides in the country. ...
The mosquito borne dengue situation has become worse in the country, particularly in Dhaka city, than in the past. Doctors said that although the number of dengue patients is still less than in the past, the rate of serious patients is higher than in 2019. However, the number of hospitalized de...
The government is moving forward to reform the Hindu laws in a bid to ensure equal rights of women of the community to their ancestral property. However, the move created mixed reactions among the members of Hindu community in Bangladesh. Some Hindu groups are reacting sharply and opposing the ...
Hundreds of workers die in workplace accidents in the country every year, but families of most of them don’t get any compensation due to negligence of the authorities concerned, and for legal complexities.Legal experts and labour leaders said that the existing laws don’t evaluate the wor...
Arrests on fake warrants are still going on despite directives from the higher court.In response to a writ petition of a victim on fake arrest-warrant, the High Court some months ago issued several directives to the authorities concerned in order to stop fake arrest-warrant.The higher court directed...
The government has taken the initiative to ensure proper reflection of the international laws and the judgments in the cases involving the delimitation of maritime boundaries of Bangladesh.The government also has taken the plan to bring the emerging economy under legal structure aiming to boost the ...
Judges of the lower court can play a vital role in ensuring justice through intervening anywhere within their jurisdictions to uphold any provisions of law and constitution.Although the lower courts have the jurisdiction to issue suo-moto order on any matter relating to the infringement of any provi...
Covid-19 pandemic situation disrupted normal court proceedings of a large number of cases, including many much discussed and sensational cases. Some of the cases, including the case filed against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, are awaiting verdict. The SK Sinha case is in the court ...
The judiciary of Bangladesh is burdened with about 38 lakh pending cases, which is a major challenge for judges, law practitioners and the government. However, the number of pending cases in the country is increasing day by day.Experts and mediators said that the promotion of mediation method will b...
The government has a plan to form an independent commission named the ‘National Broadcasting Commission’ to look after the online media outlets, including news portals and IPTV. Sources said that the government would move to constitute the commission after formulating a law in this ...
A number of the Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) channels are airing in the country without rules and regulations as well as without the approval from the authorities concerned.However, government approval is mandatory for running the IPTVs and all the online news portals as per the ‘Nation...
As a result of Covid-19 pandemic, the majority of lawyers in Bangladesh, like people of some other sectors, are now in difficulties. They are experiencing hardship and a loss of income due to lockdown which was enforced to curb the spread and transmission of the deadly virus. The lawyers in bot...
Advanced technology is now within the reach of everyone, but the right to privacy of many people is being violated at the same time.Information is manipulated through eavesdropping on mobile phones with the help of technology, while secret telephonic conversation of many people is being recorded ill...
Everyone should eat five types of fruit and vegetables every day for better health. However, about 90 per cent of the population of Bangladesh don’t consume the required five portions of a variety of fruits and vegetables on an average. Experts on nutrition and rights activists said that ...
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