A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) shows that global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rose again during 2017.

Article 66 of the Bangladesh Constitution expressly enumerates number of disqualifications to become a member of the parliament or to compete for the respective election.

Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) contractualise agreed upon legal obligations for the safest possible protection to each other's foreign direct investments (FDIs) in the parties' territories.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Florida, USA has ruled by a 4:3 majority that it is okay for judges to be friends in Facebook with the attorneys appearing before them and Facebook friendship as such is not a sufficient ground for disqualifying the judge from considering the matter in question on the ground of likelihood of bias.

The annual report 2017 of Internal Displacement Monitoring Center-Bangladesh shows that, Bangladesh is impregnated with 946000 internally displaced people.

Set off means adjustment of losses from some heads with income of other head(s) to get the taxable income. The provision of set off is laid in section 37 of Income Tax Ordinance 1984.

Media reports sometimes claim that the law for recovery of non-performing loans (NPL) as crafted in the principal law in force in this regard, the Money Loan Court Act, 2003 (MLCA) is too soft towards the borrowers.

When a smartphone user wants to install the Flashlight App, the app may ask to access the call logs and the contacts. Again that same user might want to launch a newly installed Calendar App that wants access to the user's camera or asks to read the messages.

Bangladesh has sustained vigorous economic growth, 6.7 percent of GDP per year on average, by massive industrial development and urbanisation.

The domestic trial of the Niko graft allegations has been continuing for quite some years, now reaching at the apex court in Bangladesh.

On 10 November 2018, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) organised a seminar titled ‘Redress for Rape: Ensuring Deterrence, Punishment and Reparation’ at the BILIA Auditorium in Dhaka. This was the final seminar in a series of four expert consultation seminars on the review and proposed reform of laws on rape, hosted by BLAST between July and November, which will lead to a national conference in December 2018.

Law students face the dilemma of choosing their career path from a plethora of available options once they graduate. This, however, becomes a daunting task for many due to the absence of proper guidelines. With this in view, the Career Club of Department of Law, University of Dhaka (DU) hosted the 2nd Career Talk on ‘Career in Law’ on November 14, 2018. Students of the department from freshman year up to master’s level spontaneously participated at the event.

On 14 November, Banglar Pathshala organised the 4th Memorial Lecture on the occasion of Constitution Day of this year. The Constitution Day is celebrated every year on 4 November.

On October 31, 2018, the fourth edition of the Law Faculty Open Discussion, titled ‘University and State’ was organised by the Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka (DU). Dr. Mohammad Azam, Associate Professor, Department of Bengali, DU graced the event as the Keynote Speaker while Professor Dr. Md. Rahmat Ullah, Dean, Faculty of Law, DU was present as the Guest of Honor.

The Department of Law, Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) and BUP Law and Moot Court Club (BUP-LMCC) jointly organised its very first Law Debate on 4th of November 2018, Sunday on the theme “A Legally Enforceable Right to Minimum Standard of Living”. The Debate was organised with a view to equipping the young law students with the argumentative skills, sophisticated legal knowledge and leadership abilities, so that they can fully be able to take leadership role in future. In the programme, around 200 law students of different semesters were present.

Human Rights Day Write-up Competition 2018

On 2 November, 2018, Department of Law, Cox's Bazar International University organised a national Moot Court competition in collaboration with The Network for International Law Students (NILS) Bangladesh on Public International Law.

Ignorance of law is no excuse' and in a country like Bangladesh, knowing and learning about all the laws is a task of such a gigantic nature which we cannot expect of everyone, considering the inherent complexities involved in getting formal legal education and also the intricacies of legal jargons and language in particular which is not comprehensible to everyone.

Although there was the justification of criminalisation of the commission of defamation, i.e. maintaining an apt poise between the protection of an individual's reputation and freedom of expression and thereby to protect people against false and libellous statements causing damage to their honour, fame and reputation,

In Bangladesh, we follow Family Courts Ordinance, 1985 and Guardians and Wards Act, (GWA) 1890 while dealing with cases related to custody and guardianship of children.