Cow dung protects from radiation, claims Indian court
The court has rejected the BNP’s plea to book 10 policemen, including Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Additional Commissioner Mohammad Haroon or Rashid, for vandalizing the BNP central office in Naya Paltan in the capital. The order was passed by Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhary of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court. Nazim Uddin’s lawyer Masood Ahmed Talukdar […]
The court decided that their customers’ working relationship should qualify as an employment contract, meaning that Uber must reimburse professional expenses such as the purchase of a car, fuel and overtime. Uber said it would appeal, adding: “We are determined to make progress on the platform workers’ rights issue and are confident that the right […]
A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred till February 14 the submission of the investigation report in a case filed in connection with the death of BUET student Fardeen Noor Parash, UNB reported. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shanta Islam Mallick fixed the new date as the investigating officer of the case failed to submit the report today. […]
Catalonia’s Supreme Court said on Tuesday that former Barcelona and Brazil defender Dani Alves is under investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in a Spanish nightclub last month. Alves denies any wrongdoing. A Barcelona court said in a statement that it had “opened proceedings for an alleged crime of sexual assault as a result […]
Let us go back to the case against Mirza Fakhrul, for example. Nearly 100 cases have been registered against him in the last decade. He remained in jail for more than 300 days and got bail in many cases. There is also no allegation by the government against him of trying to abscond after getting […]
Dhaka Cyber Tribunal Judge AM Zulfikar Hayat granted him bail pending the submission of the police report, the tribunal’s prosecutor said. Meanwhile, the date of January 12 has been fixed for submitting the inquiry report in the matter. In the same case, Babul was arrested on November 10 last year and shown on one-day remand […]
A court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old former Nazi camp secretary of complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people in what could be Germany’s last Holocaust trial. Presiding Judge Dominik Gross handed down a two-year suspended sentence to Irmgard Furchner for her role in what prosecutors called the “brutal and malicious murder” of […]
Masood Ahmed Talukdar, the lawyer for the two BNP leaders, confirmed this information to Prothom Alo. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Mirza Abbas were brought to the court after hours of questioning at the Detective Branch (DB) office around 4:10 pm on Friday. Meanwhile, pro-BNP lawyers took positions in the court premises and started raising […]
Apart from this, 23 leaders and workers were placed on remand on different conditions in two separate cases registered at Paltan and Motijheel police stations in connection with incidents of clashes between police and BNP leaders and workers on Wednesday. The order was passed by Additional Magistrate Tofajzel Hossain of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court […]
In the case, there were nine accused, including BNP general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and senior joint general secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. Court Bench Assistant Atiqur Rahman confirmed the matter with Prothom Alo. Earlier, the same court had issued an arrest warrant against BNP leader Ishraq Hussain on similar grounds for allegedly setting a […]