84 lower court judges deputed outside as cases pile up.
Over 84 judges of subordinate courts are serving government departments, various commissions and other institutions on deputation as the trial courts face the growing pressure of urgently disposing of 30 lakh pending cases.
MASS GRAVES IN THAI JUNGLE Lone survivor says kept captive for nine months.
The lone survivor of a death camp for sea migrants, discovered in a jungle in southern Thailand, had reportedly been kidnapped from Bangladesh’s coastal district of Cox’s Bazar and held captive for nine months.
Bangladesh struggles between seculars and radical Islamists, Salmon tells US congressional hearing
Congressman Matt Salmon, the chairman of the sub-committee on Asia and the Pacific of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs, has said ‘what really is at stake in Bangladesh is a struggle for ideological foundation of the nation between those that would emphasise secular ideas and Bengali ethnic identity, and those that seek a firm Islamist ideology.’
Harassment of journalists doubles in 2014: Report
Harassment of journalists has doubled in 2014 in comparison with 2013, Article 19 in its report published on Sunday
BNP leader Nasiruddin Pintu dies
Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu died of cardiac arrest at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital on Sunday
Poor don’t get benefits of govt subsidies
Experts say at CPD seminar
May Day observed
The International Labour Day, widely known as May Day, was observed in Bangladesh on Friday, as elsewhere around the world, with colourful processions and the voicing of the workers’ demand for the establishment of trade union rights at all factories.
Ban Ki-moon phones Hasina
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Friday expressed her hope that UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon would suggest the BNP to ‘return to the democratic politics shunning the path of terrorist and militant activities,’ reports United News of Bangladesh.
Khaleda informs Sharmen about ‘vote fraud’
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Friday informed US under secretary of state for political affairs Wendy Sherman about the ‘vote fraud’ in Tuesday’s elections to three major city corporations and provided her with documents in this regard, reports United News of Bangladesh.
4 killed in Kushtia road accident
At least four people were killed and 30 more injured as a bus fell into a roadside ditch at Noy Mile of Mirpur upazila in Kushtia early Thursday, United News of Bangladesh reports.
