The study of business ethics and practices deals with issues like lack of corporate governance, insider trading, rampant practice of bribery, presence of discrimination, absence of corporate social responsibility, etc.

The Black Lives Matter campaign inspired informed debates and discussions on racism and colourism across the world. In this backdrop, several notable beauty conglomerates recently decided to remove words like ‘white/whitening’ and fair/fairness from their products’ packs and communication with a view to evolving their skin care portfolio to a more inclusive vision of beauty.

Legal Counsel, a reputed law chambers located in Dhaka arranged a webinar on “Digital Communication, Data Protection and Data Privacy” on 12 July 2020.

On 1 July 2020 the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2532 (2020) supporting the Secretary General’s appeal for

While people are facing the greatest public health crisis, the world’s largest economies are in a fierce competition to be the first to develop a COVID-19 vaccine and ensure its accessibility to their citizens. Quite evidently, the mysterious virus has introduced a whole new global race - the race to win exclusive patent rights to a Covid-19 vaccine.

The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a huge toll on the healthcare sector across the globe. The situation is seemingly more unfortunate in a developing country like Bangladesh.

For a long time, a major issue that has plagued international trade is that payments are received many weeks, and sometimes even months, after the delivery of the goods.

Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at the heart of the current crisis that the whole world is undergoing. Due to the spread of coronavirus, while all offices, services are closed or nearly closed, one institution across the world never closed for a moment is the hospital.

Now a days, intellectual property (IP) assets have become the currency of business, used not only to protect technology rights, but also to gain competitive advantage and drive new revenue opportunities.

A recent study conducted by the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Chittagong, shows that the frequency of cyclones have increased by four-folds in the Bay of Bengal, in the last 60 years.

The UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on 26 June, 2020 marked the moment in 1987 when the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, one of the key instruments in fighting torture, came into effect.

Every year budget comes mainly focusing two areas – revenue and expenditure for the nation.

The Communicable Diseases Act, 2018

The economic contribution of high number of migrant workers has been proved to be helpful to overcome job crisis and ensure healthy economy

A substantial number of healthcare professionals are getting infected with the deadly COVID-19 disease and a significantly alarming number of such professionals are succumbing to death all over the world.

Recently, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in the case of Rathnayake Tharanga Lakmali v Niroshan Abeykoon, Suraweera Arachchige Wasantha and others, ordered the police inspectors liable for a fake encounter and custodial death and also the State to pay compensation to the widow of the deceased victim of the encounter.

The role of intellectual property (IP) in combating Covid-19, either in facilitative or restrictive way, is a recurrent issue resurfacing nowadays.

Infodemic and alluring false drugs’ promise to cure pandemic COVID-19 are compounding the ongoing public health crisis gradually.

Civil society groups Front Line Defenders, CIVICUS and South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) have jointly published a report highlighting the use of excessive force, arbitrary arrests and allegations of torture and ill-treatment by the Bangladesh security forces during student protests.

Of late a sitting-member of the current parliament named Mr. Shahid Islam alias Papul has been arrested in Kuwait on charges of human trafficking and money laundering.