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The central bank must recognise that the existing CIB laws are outdated and ineffective.

More than 16 percent of Bangladeshi businesses identified corruption as the biggest obstacle to their operations, according to a survey conducted between April and July of this year.

Around 17% of businesses identified corruption as biggest challenge, according to a CPD survey 

The Awami League regime's economic strategy was not always based on equity.

The former ICT state minister, Zunaid Ahmed Palak, had boasted in 2016 that sprawling IT park in Kaliakoir would employ up to a million people over 10 years.

Says Ashik Chowdhury, head of government’s key investment promotion agencies BIDA, BEZA

Politicians aided by loyal bureaucrats were behind irregularities in development projects taken and implemented when the Awami League was in power, secretaries and other officials told a whitepaper panel.

Look at cities like Kolkata and Jakarta, where metros were built at much lower costs and in less time.

Corruption manifests in various forms—such as bribery, favouritism, and embezzlement—and is experienced firsthand by ordinary citizens, entrepreneurs and investors.

Corruption is institutionalised, almost as a sort of mandatory tax, and people actually idolise those with money, regardless of the source of wealth.