Dipan Nandy

Staff Reporter, The Daily Star

ACC sues Benazir, wife, two daughters

Housewife Jissan Mirza reportedly owns immovable and movable assets worth approximately Tk 11.5 crore.

3d ago

Under Awami League, ACC became a political weapon

Commission remained hostage to partisan political and bureaucratic influence, which made it dysfunctional, says chief of ACC Reform Commission

1w ago

ACC chairman, 2 commissioners quit their jobs

Chairman and two commissioners of the Anti-Corruption Commission resigned yesterday.

1m ago

The ministers’ men who made millions

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.

2m ago

A new addition to Benazir’s legacy of deceit

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.

2m ago

Durga Puja, a festival of faith and togetherness

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.

2m ago

How 11,000 bhori gold embezzled from Samabaya Bank

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.

2m ago

Mia, wife concealed assets in tax returns

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

3m ago
May 13, 2024
May 13, 2024

Four Years of Dhaka Mayors: Failures stifle successes

Dhaka’s two mayors, who step into the fifth year of their tenure this week, have largely failed in their fight against mosquitoes.

May 12, 2024
May 12, 2024

City dwellers suffer after morning rain

The pre-monsoon showers have yet again exposed the persistent drainage problems in the capital as last morning’s heavy downpour left many Dhaka streets submerged and residents struggling to navigate the knee- to waist-deep murky waters.

May 11, 2024
May 11, 2024

‘City tolls’ now an easy way of extortion

Having driven his truck all the way from Chattogram, Kashem Mia reached Swamibagh in the capital around 1:00am on March 27, when a group of young men appeared on the road and waved desperately.

May 9, 2024
May 9, 2024

Cops clueless about Bacchu’s whereabouts

Law enforcers have no idea where former BASIC Bank chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu is even though a Dhaka court has so far issued 52 warrants for him in as many cases since February 28.

May 9, 2024
May 9, 2024

Tk 6cr Rajuk building lies vacant for 3yrs

Constructed at an expense of Tk 6 crore, the 10-storey Hatirjheel Car Parking and Management Building of the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha has been lying vacant for three years.

May 9, 2024
May 9, 2024

A road to suffering

Sajjadul Kabir, a private company employee, has to commute to Motijheel’s Shapla Chattar area every day from Old Dhaka’s Dhalkanagar.

May 1, 2024
May 1, 2024

Jahanara Imam Memorial Museum to become part of national museum on Saturday

The Shaheed Janani Jahanara Imam Memorial Museum will officially become a branch of the Bangladesh National Museum from Saturday onwards

May 1, 2024
May 1, 2024

First heatwave, now water crisis

Amid the severe heat wave, there is an acute water crisis in various areas of the capital.

April 29, 2024
April 29, 2024

Got waste? Sell it to DNCC

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has initiated a pilot project aimed at tackling the dengue outbreak by purchasing discarded items that are left in the open.

April 27, 2024
April 27, 2024

Seventh grader killed by DSCC garbage truck

A 13-year-old schoolboy was killed after being run over by a garbage truck of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in the city’s Madinabagh area on Thursday night.