A section of unscrupulous BRTA officials and staffers, policemen, transport associations, staffers of city corporations and municipalities, and people affiliated with political parties get shares of the bribes and extorted money

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.

A death is an accident only when it occurs in spite of all logical, scientific and experience-based steps taken to prevent it.

In a country where corrupt practices dominate traffic rules and laws, the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has prepared a draft law under which police would not require any warrant to arrest anyone for violation of traffic rules. Police lodge around 70,000 cases a month and there is a huge backlog of cases. Will this new law, if passed, help the situation?

Two police officials of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station in Dhaka are suspended for allegedly detaining three employees of a recruiting agency and forcing them to pay bribes.

Two Fifa vice-presidents are arrested in a dawn raid at a Swiss hotel on suspicion of accepting millions of dollars of bribes.

Women are paying more bribes than men for availing services at land offices, a Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) report says.

Former Fifa vice president Jack Warner has said in a TV address that he will reveal all he knows about corruption at the world football body.