Five per cent of people suffers from sort of intestinal disorders daily in Bangladesh due to unsafe food consumption, said food secretary Md Masudul Hasan on Sunday...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed three separate cases against former shipping minister Shajahan Khan, also a presidium member of the Awami League, and his family members on charges of amassing illegal assets worth Tk 25.72 crore...
A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced former Khulna-2 lawmaker Mizanur Rahman to eight years of imprisonment in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday said that they did not find the existence of the office of Suchona Foundation, founded by ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 daughter Saima Wazed, at the organisation鈥檚 registered address in the capital鈥檚 Dhanmondi area...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has decided to file a case against former lawmaker of Bhola-3 constituency Nurnnabi Chowdhury for acquiring beyond known sources of income and assets...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a case against 52 people, including Ahsanul Alam, former Islami Bank chairman and son of S Alam, on charges of embezzling Tk 918 crore from Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited.
Former Bangladesh Bank deputy governor Sitanshu Kumar Sur Chowdhury on Monday was shown arrested in a money laundering case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission over the Hallmark Group loan scam seven years ago...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed four cases against 19 people, including former military adviser Tariq Ahmed Siddique, former civil aviation and tourism ministry senior secretary Mohibul Haque, and...
The Anti-Corruption Commission will probe why experts, including Professor Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, found the electronic voting machines suitable, despite allegations of the substandard quality of the EVMs...
A SHARP decline in the conviction rate in corruption cases to a worrying 47 per cent in 2024, the lowest in eight years, down from 57.18 per cent in 2023, does not only question the effectiveness of the Anti-Corruption Commission in its fight against corruption but also, perhaps, brings to the fore some inadequacies that the commission is faced with. This...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday said that the commission found corruption of Saima Wazed Putul, daughter of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, in getting appointment as regional director...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday found assets worth Tk聽4.70 crore in a locker at the Bangladesh Bank, belonging to former deputy governor Sitanshu Kumar Sur Chowdhury...
The conviction rate in corruption cases in the country has fallen to a worrying 47 per cent in 2024, the lowest in the past eight years, raising concerns about the effectiveness of the Anti-Corruption Commission in fighting corruption.
Dhaka stocks saw a rise in its indices in the past week, after dropping for consecutive two weeks, as a section of investors bought beaten down scrips with hope for short term gains after the recent market correction, as well as fundamentally good shares...
An Anti-Corruption Commission team has found no trace of 83 per cent of income declared by former Awami League lawmaker from Dinajpur-3 constituency, Iqbalur Rahim, also a former whip of the Jatiya Sangsad, in his wealth statements.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed two cases against dismissed Major General Ziaul Ahsan and his wife Nusrat Jahan on charges of amassing illegal wealth, money laundering, and abuse of power.
The Jashore Special and Session Judge Court on Wednesday sentenced former Awami League lawmaker Shahin Chakladar to four years of jail in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission around 16 years ago...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday took decision to conduct an inquiry against the officials who abused power and were involved in irregularities in the 2018 National Election...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday filed two separate cases against two state ministers of the now ousted Awami League government, Meher Afroz Chumki and Zakir Hossain, on charges of amassing illegal assets...
A writ petition was filed with the High Court on Tuesday, seeking the court to direct the Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate corruption allegations against the National Curriculum and Textbook Board chairman....
FOUR months after coming to power, the National People鈥檚 Power government is facing growing criticism from those in the opposition and also scepticism regarding its ability to make policies necessary to revive the country and its economy. The catchy stories in the media are invariably in relation to some mishap or shortcoming in the past of government...
BANGLADESH stands at a crossroads and the time has come to confront an uncomfortable truth: who has failed the nation? Not physicians, engineers, academics, businessmen, bureaucrats, labourers, lawyers, or farmers. It is politicians. Why? Because, their focus has been on the consolidation of power, not aspirations of the people. Instead of working to...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday filed three cases against former Awami League lawmaker for Cumilla-6 constituency AKM Bahauddin Bahar, his wife Meherunessa, and their daughter and former Cumilla City Corporation mayor Tahseen Bahar Shuchona on charges of amassing illegal wealth...
The chiefs of four reform commissions on the constitution, police, election system and Anti-Corruption Commission, and one member of judiciary reform commission, met on Monday to discuss ways of minimising overlaps and difference of opinions in their respective reports...
The Anti-Corruption Commission will send corruption information about the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 daughter, Saima Wazed Putul, to the聽 World Health Organisation through the foreign affairs ministry.
THIS is a welcome move that the Anti-Corruption Commission, which has found that some public servants have secretly obtained dual citizenship and used their foreign passports to conceal their illegal wealth and to syphon money abroad, has begun an inquiry to find out public servants having dual citizenship. The commission, as part of the inquiry, wrote...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday conducted a drive at the residence of former Bangladesh Bank deputy governor Sitanshu Kumar Sur Chowdhury and recovered Tk 16.25 lakh in聽 cash, savings...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed three cases against former cabinet secretary Kabir Bin Anwar, former lawmaker Md Abdus Shahid, and their wives on charges of amassing illegal wealth...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has found that a section of public servants have secretly acquired dual citizenship and foreign passports to conceal their illegal wealth and launder money abroad.聽
The Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Saturday sent Masud Biswas, the former chief of the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit, to jail in a case filed against him on charge of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 1.87 crore.