Courts & law

Myanmar junta dissolves Suu Kyi party

Shawdesh desk: Myanmar’s junta-stacked election commission on Tuesday announced Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party would be dissolved for failing to re-register under a tough new military-drafted

Probe report in DSA case against ex-SP Babul April 27

Shawdesh desk: A Dhaka court today fixed April 27 for submission of the investigation report in a case filed by Police Bureau of Investigation (PIB) against former SP Babul Akhter,

Helena Jahangir, 4 others get 2-yr jail in fraud case

Shawdesh Desk: A Dhaka court has sentenced five people, including Helena Jahangir, a businessperson turned politician, to 2 years jail in a fraud case filed with Dhaka’s Pallabi Police Station.

DB arrests 54 BNP leaders, activists at Banani Club

Shawdesh desk: The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested at least 54 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party while they were holding a meeting at Banani Club on

Bangladesh ex-PM Khaleda charged in Niko graft case

Shawdesh Desk: The Dhaka Special Judge Court-9 on Sunday charged ex-prime minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and seven others in Niko graft case. Judge Sheikh Hafizur Rahman

HC bench forwards writ against presidential election process to CJ

Shawdesh desk: A High Court bench on Sunday said that it felt ‘embarrassed’ to hear a writ petition filed challenging the process of electing Mohammad Shahabuddin as president and it

Indictment hearing in graft case against Samrat April 9

Shawdesh Desk: A court here today fixed April 9 for hearing on framing charges against expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat in a graft case filed by Anti-Corruption

HC asks IU to remove hall provost, expel 5 BCL activists

Shawdesh Desk: The High Court on Wednesday asked the authorities of the Islamic University to remove Deshratna Sheikh Hasina Hall provost Shamsul Alam and expel five leaders and activists ofthe