Transparency International Bangladesh on Wednesday expressed concern and criticised the government for approving the draft Anti-Corruption Commission (Amendment) Ordinance 2025 in principle by excluding key strategic recommendations from the ACC Reform Commission.
ANTIMICROBIAL resistance has become a major health concern because of poor healthcare standards, compounded by the misuse and abuse of antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance results in a decreased ability to treat infection, leading to increased illness, death and an increased cost of treatment. The Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Report 2025 finds that several widely...
Some widely used antibiotics have lost efficacy up to 97 per cent in Bangladesh because of the misuse of the lifesaving drugs due to unregulated sale, over-prescription, self-medication and incomplete dosing as laws and High Court verdict are hardly followed.
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Tuesday expressed concern over the government鈥檚 decision to keep military officers鈥攁ccused by the International Crimes Tribunal of enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and torture during the fallen authoritarian regime鈥攊n military custody inside cantonments.
Nearly 1,000 hikers and support personnel have returned to safety after heavy snowfall stranded them over the weekend on the Tibetan Plateau near Mount Everest, Chinese state media reported...
The Transparency International Bangladesh on Thursday expressed disappointment as the interim government sent a too large delegation to the 80th United Nations General Assembly.
Transparency International Bangladesh executive director and National Consensus Commission member Iftekharuzzaman on Friday said that the next national elections faced a major challenge due to a three-way tug of crisis within the...
Harmful bacteria, many of those now resistant to commonly used antibiotics, are prevalent at retail meat shops across the capital Dhaka, researchers said, highlighting the food safety risks in one of the world鈥檚 most densely populated cities...
Fisheries and livestock adviser Farida Akhter at a programme on Saturday called upon all concerned to stop the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in livestock...
The Transparency International Bangladesh on Sunday expressed concern over the growing trend of power abuse among leaders and activists of major political parties.
President Xi Jinping attended a grand ceremony in Lhasa on Thursday during a rare visit to Tibet, where he urged 鈥榚thnic unity and religious harmony鈥� in a region where China is accused of rights abuses.
A young Tibetan singer and activist has been detained by Chinese authorities, the India-based Central Tibetan Administration said...
China started building a mega-dam Saturday on a river running through Tibet and India, with Premier Li Qiang attending the commencement ceremony, state media said.
The Reading Caf茅s at BRAC Bank鈥檚 Sepal Tower and Anik Tower recently hosted engaging discussions on two literary masterpieces 鈥� The Stranger by French-Algerian author Albert Camus and Taranath Tantrik Samagra, a celebrated short story collection by Bengali writer Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay.
The mosque khatib, who was hacked with a sharp weapon after Jumma prayers on July 11 in Chandpur, is currently undergoing treatment at a private hospital in the capital...
The Dalai Lama聽said Wednesday that the 600-year-old Tibetan spiritual institution would continue after his death, reassuring Buddhist followers around the globe and saying his office 鈥榚xclusively鈥� would name his successor, even as China insisted it would...
Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, gave on Monday the strongest indication yet that the 600-year-old institution would continue after his death, at prayer celebrations for his 90th birthday...
Tibetans in exile celebrate the 90th birthday of spiritual leader the Dalai Lama next week, an occasion overshadowed by uncertainty about the future of the role and what it means for their movement.
The use of the Mobile Financial Services is increasing for money laundering, bribery, online gambling, cryptocurrency transactions and even terror financing and other illegal purposes, a Transparency International Bangladesh study has suggested...
ANTIBIOTIC resistance is increasingly becoming a global health crisis, primarily driven by the irrational, unnecessary, and non-compliant use of antibiotics. Research reveals that, in 2022 alone, over 3 million children worldwide succumbed to antibiotic-resistant infections. A study by two leading child health researchers highlighted that children in Africa and...
The Transparency International Bangladesh on Thursday urged the interim government to amend immediately the Public Accounts Audit Ordinance, 2025, saying that the ordinance has curtained the constitutional authority of the Comptroller and Auditor General and would pave the way for corruption and tax evasion...
The Transparency International Bangladesh has made a specific recommendation before the interim government to incorporate the provision for ensuring priority of the CAG office and its effectiveness alongside auditing for determining revenues and...
Terming the government鈥檚 attempt to appoint an officer accused of graft in the ACC unacceptable, the Transparency International Bangladesh on Wednesday raised a question whether efforts were being made to make it ineffective from within the government...
Transparency International Bangladesh has expressed concern over the government鈥檚 decision to appoint Amin Al Parvez, an accused in a graft case, as a director of the Anti-Corruption Commission....
THE virtually overnight suspension of the US government鈥檚 multibillion dollar foreign aid programme channelled through USAID has been headline news in the US and in other parts of the world where this aid has been very important. In the US itself the suspension of USAID programmes has been accompanied by large scale loss of jobs in the aid sector without due...
Transparency International Bangladesh has expressed deep concern over removal of graffiti with 鈥楢dibashi鈥� (indigenous) words from the back cover of ninth and tenth-grade textbooks by the National Curriculum and Textbook Board.
Thousands of rescuers were searching for survivors in freezing conditions on Wednesday after a devastating earthquake in China鈥檚 remote Tibet region killed at least 126 people...
Thousands of rescuers were searching for survivors in freezing conditions Wednesday after a devastating earthquake in China鈥檚 remote Tibet region killed at least 126 people...
ACCESSING government and public services in Bangladesh is fraught with challenges, severely limiting citizens鈥� ability to obtain essential support in a timely and efficient manner. Despite its extensive reach, the public service delivery system remains marred by entrenched issues such as corruption, inefficiency and a lack of transparency, resulting...
Transparency International Bangladesh on Tuesday said that there was scope for misuse of the formulated draft Cyber Security Ordinance as it still contained some repressive provisions similar to those in the Cyber Security Act.
