Jamaat leader Taher criticises crucial appointment ahead of national polls

A US State Department report has identified corruption as a persistent and serious impediment to investment and economic growth in Bangladesh.

Systemic maladies in politics, governance, and society persist even a year after the uprising, and these cannot help dismantle the authoritarian system, says Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB).

BNP leader Fakhrul highlights escalating bribery, blames lack of good governance and police reform

On paper, the basic salary of an officer-in-charge (OC) of a police station in Bangladesh is Tk 22,000 under the ninth national pay scale.

ACC opens investigations into five more officials over alleged graft

The scourge of chandabaji has been eating away at business profits and also depleting the take-home wages of workers.

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has frozen nearly £90 million worth of luxury London property owned by two individuals linked to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, according to the British daily The Guardian.

The ACC stated in its petition that the accused were allegedly attempting to transfer funds, which could hinder the investigation

If you visit the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), you will find it difficult to make your way through the crowded corridors between the wards. Patients lie on narrow, makeshift beds along both sides, while doctors, hospital staff, visitors, and treatment seekers shuffle through the chaos.

With crumbling institutions built on fragile principles, power has been co-opted.

Babel and his men have controlled construction and sand businesses in Mymensingh's Gafargaon upazila for last 15 years

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed separate cases against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy.

On January 12, ACC Assistant Director Afnan Jannat Keya filed the case with its Dhaka Integrated District Office against Hasina, Saima Wazed and 14 others

The investigation team also requested their personal documents from the EC, and Immigration and Passport Office

The Anti-Corruption Commission has decided to launch an investigation against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy on allegations of laundering $300 million to the United States.

Corruption was the trademark of the ousted government.

There was corruption in the distribution of family cards for subsidised commodity sales by the state-owned Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB), according to Commerce Adviser Sk Bashir Uddin.

A total of $234 billion was siphoned off from Bangladesh between 2009 and 2023, according to the white paper on the state of the economy.

The central bank must recognise that the existing CIB laws are outdated and ineffective.