The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a case against 17 people, including former BASIC Bank Limited chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bachchu and its former managing director Kazi Fakhrul Islam, on charges of embezzling Tk 30 crore by approving a loan to a fake company.
BENJAMIN Franklin once warned, 鈥楧on鈥檛 put off till tomorrow what you can do today.鈥� In Bangladesh, this wisdom is reversed, distorted and institutionalised within bureaucratic practice as a strategy for self-aggrandisement. Their unspoken motto seems...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed and 27 others over the embezzlement of Tk聽15 crore from United Commercial Bank PLC (UCB), allegedly using fake business entities...
New York-based boxer Zinnat Ferdous is determined to change global perception about the female boxers from Bangladesh and shed the underdog tag...
The number of people with liver cancer will nearly double worldwide by 2050 unless more is done to address preventable causes such as obesity, alcohol consumption and hepatitis, a study warned Tuesday...
The High Court has asked the government to explain within four weeks why its failure to investigate alleged large-scale corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion by top bosses of the Asiatic 3sixty Group since 2009 should not be declared illegal...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday said that there was no bar on inquiry against the leaders and activists of the Students Against Discrimination if specific allegations of amassing illegal wealth were found against them.
YOU could almost hear the plastic of the television screen bending from the weight of it. Names. Three of them. Bright as blood under fluorescent lights. Allegations. Extortion. Corruption. One crore taka, just like that 鈥� enough to make you choke on your morning tea...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed two separate cases against former Air Chief Marshal Shaikh Abdul Hannan and his wife Tahmida Begum on charges of amassing Tk 5.20 crore illegally...
An additional chief metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Sunday allowed the police to take three leaders of the Students Against Discrimination and a leader of the Bangladesh Ganatantrik Chhatra Sangsad to take in custody for seven days for interrogation in an extortion case filed with Gulshan police station in the capital...
The Eastern University held a freshers鈥� reception for the summer 2025 students on the EU campus in Dhaka on Saturday...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday filed a case against former land minister and Awami League leader Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed, his family members and several senior officials of United Commercial Bank PLC and Aramit Group on charges of embezzling and laundering Tk 25 crore from UCB...
In the shadow of the Grand Egyptian Museum, souvenir shop owner Mona has been readying for the tourist boom she hoped the long-awaited opening would bring 鈥� now once again out of reach...
Banophool Adibashi Green Heart College has organised a reception programme for the meritorious students, who passed the SSC examination this year, at the college in the capital鈥檚 Mirpur...
On the occasion of July Uprising鈥�24 Vice-chancellor of the Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Professor Md Abdul Latif at a rally in Dhaka on Monday urged the people of the country to make Bangladesh free from corruption...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday sent letters to all 64 districts across the country, seeking detailed financial records related to the nationwide observance of 鈥楳ujib Borsho鈥� or 鈥楳ujib Year鈥� on the occasion of birth centenary of the country鈥檚 founding president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and the construction of over 10,000 murals and sculptures during the period...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday approved the charge sheet of a case against former state minister Mannujan Sufian and a director of the labour directorate Mizanur Rahman in a corruption case...
Education adviser Professor Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar on Sunday said that they were working on some internal plans to bridle to prevent corruption in the sector...
Several Bangladeshis who are under the Anti-Corruption Commission scrutiny in Bangladesh appear to have either sold, transferred or refinanced property in the United Kingdom since the past year鈥檚 mass uprising that toppled the Sheikh Hasina-led authoritarian Awami League regime...
Netflix reported stronger than expected second-quarter results Thursday, with profit jumping 45 per cent year-over-year as the streaming giant benefited from subscription price increases and a growing advertising business...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has submitted a supplementary charge sheet against 22 people, including former Bangladesh Bank governor Fazle Kabir and former chair of the board of directors of Biman Bangladesh Airlines retired...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed four separate cases against the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 security adviser, retired Major General Tarique Ahmed Siddique, his wife Shaheen Siddique and their two daughters on...
CORRUPTION remains one of the most enduring and pervasive challenges facing Bangladesh. From petty bribery to grand scale embezzlement, corruption infiltrates various sectors of public and private life. Despite significant economic growth and...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed two cases against 11 people, including former housing and public works minister engineer Mosharraf Hossain and former Padma Bank chairman Chowdhury Nafeez Sarafat on charges of corruption and money laundering.
The government on Wednesday appointed additional secretary Mohammad Khaled Rahim of the Cabinet Division the secretary of the Anti-Corruption Commission.
The artificial intelligence industry is scrambling to reduce its massive energy consumption through better cooling systems, more efficient computer chips, and smarter programming 鈥� all while AI usage explodes worldwide...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday filed two separate cases against Awami League joint general secretary and former lawmaker Md Mahbubul Alam Hanif and his wife Fauzia Alam on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk聽32 crore...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday started interrogating owners of different printing houses over allegations of corruption in printing books of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board...
The department of architecture at North South University has hosted freshers鈥� reception and farewell ceremony under the theme 鈥楪ram Bangla鈥�, celebrating the cultural and spatial narratives of rural Bengal, at the NSU in Dhaka recently...
The department of urban and regional planning of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology has recently held a farewell programme for the outgoing batch and a freshers鈥� reception for the newly enrolled students at the CUET in Chattogram...