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Hundreds of lives perish on the highways across the country every year due to plying of illegal vehicles. Three-wheelers, including the battery-run three-wheelers ‘easy bikes’, still continue to run on the country’s highways defying repeated ban imposed by the authorities concerned...
Licence has been made mandatory for all the sellers of tobacco products, including cigarette as licencing system has been introduced for selling tobacco products in Bangladesh.The local government bodies, including city corporation, municipality and Union Parishad, have been empowered to issue ...
Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said on Friday that ‘The Mass Media Employees (Services Conditions) Bill, 2022’, which was placed in Parliament on March 28, would be amended. He said this while talking to journalists at his residence on Minto Road in the ...
The authorities concerned are taking steps to amend the Digital Security Act (DSA) formulated in October 2018 to contain cybercrimes.Steps have been taken to stop the abuse and misuse of this law and the authorities concerned are thinking to frame rules to check the abuse. A six-member committ...
The government is moving forward to enact a fresh law titled ‘Jatiya Muktijoddha Council Act, 2022’ with the provision of making a list of collaborators who helped the Pakistan Army during the Bangladesh War of Liberation in 1971. The Liberation War Affairs Ministry had prepared the...
The government has designed a new law titled the ‘Mass Media Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 2022’. The draft of the proposed law had already been passed in the Cabinet, but it is yet to be placed in Parliament. The government is making preparation to place the Bill in Parlia...
The High Court is witnessing a record number of death references, including in many sensational and notable cases. Appeals filed by many of the death-row convicts are also pending for hearing.The notable cases include August 21 grenade attack cases, Chattogram’s 10 truck arms haul case, Ramna ...
There are many British-era laws that still exist in Bangladesh, majority of which have no utility or application. Sadly, the redundant laws are still included in Bangladesh Code today.Some of the laws which have no application are - The Public Servants (Inquiries) Act, 1850; The Tolls Act, 1851; The...
Bangladesh Law Commission has prepared the draft unified land law aiming to modernize and consolidate the provisions of the conventional laws and enact an integrated land law.Secretary of Law Commission Atwar Rahman (District and Sessions Judge) said that the commission has recently prepared the dra...
International Women’s Day is celebrated annually on March 8 to commemorate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender equity. The day will be celebrated in Bangladesh as elsewhere in the world with signif...
With the theme ‘Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration,’ the World Wildlife Day-2022 will be observed today (March 3) in Bangladesh as elsewhere in the world. Green activists and environmental organisations will observe the day in the country by holding various prog...
Although most of the products are sold to consumers at the maximum retail price (MRP) in the country, the matter is not followed in the case of cigarette and bidi sales. The tobacco companies sell cigarettes and bidis to retailers at MRP rate, while the retailers sell the products to customers ...
The Law Commission has placed a report recommending amending the ‘Arbitration Act, 2001’ in order to shun the loopholes in the existing law. The initiative has been taken to amend the ‘Arbitration Act, 2001’ aiming to facilitate and streamline the process of recognition ...
The government has made a move to amend the ‘Evidence Act, 1872’ for overcoming the challenges to introduce digital evidence in the justice system. The move has also been made to cancel some controversial provisions, including the provision that allows questioning the character of rape v...
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A development authority has been proposed in a bid to bring about a well-planned development in Sylhet with a view to establishing a modern and attractive tourist city in Sylhet city and the adjoining areas. The Housing and Public Works Ministry had taken the initiative to establish the Sylhet Unnay...
An initiative has been taken to establish the Barishal Nagar Unnayan Kartripakkhya (Barishal Development Authority). The Housing and Public Works Ministry has taken the initiative almost 20 years after the formation of Barishal City Corporation (BCC). The draft of ‘The Barishal Developmen...
The government pledges to take stern action against those involved in the recent deaths of a good number of animals in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur and some other zoos in the country.The death of 11 zebras in a safari park in a month-- January this year, and the death of seve...
Although the air pollution issue is stated in some environmental laws, enactment of a separate law is now imperative to curb severe air pollution in the country. The government had also felt the need and drafted the ‘Clean Air Act’ aiming to regulate the country’s air quality ...
The ministries concerned have become vibrant about irregularities and death of wildlife in the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur and some other zoos in the country. The safari park has recorded the death of 11 zebras in a month-- January this year. The park authorities said that six of...
The government has taken the initiative to enact a landmark law to ensure ownership and rights of land owners properly and prevent all land-related crime, including forgery, grabbing of Khas and private land, hill and soil cutting and illegal sand lifting. The government has already drafted the law ...
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