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
Traders of the burnt-down Bangabazar Shopping Complex will erect makeshift shops on the ground to resume their business ahead of Eid.
A six-year-old city corporation initiative to build a 10-storey shopping mall at Bangabazar never saw the light of day because of disagreements between the shop owners and the corporation.
They invested the money they had and the money they could borrow in the hope of good business ahead of Eid but within a few hours yesterday, they lost everything.
A massive fire ripped through the capital’s Bangabazar Shopping Complex yesterday, burning down at least 2,931 shops full of clothes and ruining the livelihood of several thousand traders just weeks before Eid.
Many people from nearby markets were also seen taking their belongings out of the area, with everyone occupying the street with their possessions
You are looking at a large portrait of Bangabandhu, depicting his powerful speech on March 7, 1971. An audiovisual of the precise moment in history plays in the background, making you feel as if you are experiencing the historical moment in-person.
An eerie silence settled over the streets of Kushtia in the early hours of March 30, 1971, as a curfew, imposed by the occupying Pakistan army, was in place.
MA Khair Chowdhury passed the Segunbagicha kitchen market disappointed.
The word “Swadhinata” evokes a powerful image of Bangladesh’s journey to independence, and the Swadhinata Museum, located at Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Udyan is a testament to that journey, embodying the spirit of freedom.
MA Khair Chowdhury passed the Segunbagicha kitchen market, disappointed. "It's quite impossible to buy daily essentials from the market due to the high prices."
