Housewife Jissan Mirza reportedly owns immovable and movable assets worth approximately Tk 11.5 crore.
Commission remained hostage to partisan political and bureaucratic influence, which made it dysfunctional, says chief of ACC Reform Commission
Chairman and two commissioners of the Anti-Corruption Commission resigned yesterday.
Not only did the ministers, state ministers and lawmakers amass huge amount of wealth during the Awami League’s four terms in power, their personal secretaries and assistant personal secretaries managed to stumble into fortune as well.
Corruption, grabbing minority lands to build resorts and using excessive force to crush dissent -- the name of Benazir Ahmed, once one of the most powerful figures in the country’s law enforcement, has long been synonymous with deceit or fraud.
As dawn breaks and the first rays of sunlight streams through your window, you hear the rhythmic beat of drums and the joyful clanging of cymbals coming from a nearby temple.
Mohiuddin Ahmed Mohi, a former chairman of Bangladesh Samabaya Bank Ltd, embezzled over 11,000 bhori (each bhori is 11.66 grammes) of mortgaged gold from 2,316 customers prior to 2021.
When Asaduzzaman Mia retired as the longest-serving Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner in 2019, by his own admission, he went home with about Tk 1.75 crore in service benefits. But that does not give a true picture of his wealth accumulation. Fact is, the career cop and his family became muc
Hardware shops, shoemakers sell them the adhesive glue, claim street children
2019 was a watershed for dengue, with the highest number of cases ever reported globally. For Bangladesh too, it was a loud wake-up call, with record caseload and deaths. But the government continued with its slumber.
The Dhaka North City Corporation plans to reimport Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis (BTI) to combat the dengue situation, but this time from sources mentioned in the agreement with Marshal Agrovet.
Following two tests, Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis (BTI) pesticide, imported from China by Dhaka North City Corporation’s blacklisted company Marshal Agrovet, has proved to be effective.
Dhaka North City Corporation has blacklisted Marshal Agrovet Chemical Industries Ltd over anomalies in importing BTI pesticide used in anti-mosquito drive.
The company that imported the much-hyped BTI pesticide to destroy Aedes mosquito larvae for the Dhaka North City Corporation does not have the importing licence. Despite this, the company took part in the open tender and came out as the lowest bidder.
With falling leaves, worn-out epitaphs and gravestones, and rustle of breeze whispering tales from four centuries ago -- Dhaka Christian Cemetery, known to city dwellers as Narinda or Wari cemetery, has been the resting place of many known or unsung heroes for decades.
Dhaka South City Corporation has initiated a project to construct Bangabazar Paikari Nagar Biponi Bitan, a 10-storey shopping complex, at the place of Bangabazar complex, which was destroyed by fire.
The Dhaka South City Corporation has taken an ambitious project to rejuvenate the Dholaikhal reservoir, which has long been used as a garbage dump. As per the project, DSCC will transform it into a park.
Taqsem A Khan, the much-discussed managing director of Dhaka Wasa, has been reappointed to the post for the sixth consecutive time.
