LAW THROUGH THE LENS

YES you got it right, the man on the right is taking a piss; slow and relaxed as if there is no tomorrow. Why is the person on the left running? Probably running away from the awful stench?
10 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Towards being a role model for ensuring right to food

Right to food though is not an age old notion but now people all over the world including the people of Bangladesh are more or less familiar with this very concept.
10 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Amplifying children justice system

Children being in one of the most vulnerable groups of the society, need special care in handling especially in case of delinquency.
10 August 2015, 18:00 PM

India's inter-linking of river project is devoid of legal basis

It appears from recent newspaper reportings in India and Bangladesh that India has not deviated from her decades old plan of massive inter-linking of river plan to divert substantial amount of water from Brahmaputra to her South West region. It is learnt that our Ministry of Water Resources has asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to contact the Indian Government to know her position and also to let India know our position on the issue. We are yet to know whether such communication has at all taken place, and what is the outcome of any communication if it has taken place.
3 August 2015, 18:44 PM

Unseen wounds of abused children

Child abuse or maltreatment constitutes all forms of physical and emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect or negligent treatment or commercial or
3 August 2015, 18:43 PM

Building Nexus with WTO Regime

Bangladesh is still tender in entering into reciprocal bilateral Preferential Trade Agreements in comparison with multilateral Preferential Trade Agreements.
3 August 2015, 18:00 PM

How to do mutation of land

Mutation means insertion of the name of the new owner in the Khatiyan (Record of Rights) instead of the former owner after transferring the ownership of a
3 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Zafrullah apologises, SC cancels his fine

Supreme Court scrapes International Crimes Tribunal-2 ruling imposing Tk 5,000 fine on Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury for contempt of court after he apologised unconditionally.
28 July 2015, 04:29 AM

Dealing with modern modes of communications

A' offered 'B' through facebook to enter into a contract and 'B' accepted the offer. Is it a valid contract? The Contract Act, 1872 is silent regarding facebook, twitter, email or any other modern mode of communication.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Teesta water rights and International Law

It has been argued that water shall become a major source of conflict in the 21st century. The world's most utilised trans-boundary watercourses are located in Asia.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Education is our right and not a commodity

Like other ordinary days, I was reading the newspapers and my eyes stucked into news that government has proposed to levy 10 percent VAT on private universities, private medical and engineering colleges.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Joining together to fight against trafficking

The World Day against Trafficking in Persons was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, in its resolution A/RES/68/192. Trafficking in
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

LEGAL ASPECTS OF FELANI'S MURDER

We don't want to see travesty, rather we expect that no perpetrator will be escaped from the purview of law
20 July 2015, 18:10 PM

Combating illicit transfer of children

The story of 14-year-old Absaruddin is simply grimmest as it appeared in The Daily Star on May 17, 2015. The title, 'I want to go back to my mother' says it all.
20 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Your Advocate

I am working in a private organisation and am currently pregnant. I have seen that, whenever any female employee becomes pregnant the organisation terminates her to avoid providing maternity benefit.
20 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Let's generate clerkship institution

Bengali educated class have typical aversion to the word “clerk” and the class it denotes, so to appease their anxiety we would like to clarify at the beginning that, contrary to the word “clerk” is used, law clerks do almost no clerical jobs.
20 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Implementation Of Law can prevent human trafficking

Nazrul Islam is the Bangladesh Country Director for Relief International (RI), a US based international non-government organization that provides development services in more than 20 countries.
6 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Father's right to paternity leave

A mother usually bears the main responsibility of childcare work in family life. Father's has also duty to take care of both mother and child. Father plays a
6 July 2015, 18:00 PM

A justice system that fails children ultimately fails society

THE treatment of children in judicial proceedings around the world, both civil and criminal, is not satisfactory and often “unacceptable,” the UN human
6 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Artworks on anti trafficking spirits

We often sense the scream and see the gloomy faces of the ill fated migrant workers who have been hidden in the shadow of our society. Unfortunately their
6 July 2015, 18:00 PM