A representative of Zakir Hossain, state minister for primary education, has returned Tk 9.5 lakh allegedly taken in bribes from a man seeking to be a primary school teacher.

The cost of grand corruption in Bangladesh is only continuing to go up.

The Anti-Corruption Commission today detained a deputy inspector general of Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishment (DIFE) for taking bribe from a food company in Dinajpur.

A government official has been arrested in Brahmanbaria while taking bribe. Md Qutub Uddin, auditor of Brahmanbaria district accounts office, was detained with the bribe money on Thursday, reports our Brahmanbaria correspondent.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) catches a food controller red-handed with bribe money worth Tk 50,000 in Nogan Sadar upazila.