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Transport master plan violated at will

Ignoring the Revised Strategic Transport Plan, government agencies on their own initiated eight major projects in and around the capital. The projects could end up on the chopping block and the money already spent could be written off.
14 March 2023, 01:00 AM

Why are our resources wasted on lavish building projects?

We shouldn't be squandering money on buildings when our services need funds
18 November 2022, 16:22 PM

The unjust and discriminatory face of corruption

The cost of grand corruption in Bangladesh is only continuing to go up.
11 September 2022, 16:00 PM

Sheer waste of public money: Ponds dug for drinking water now used for fish farming

A government project undertaken to supply drinking water to locals in Gaibandha’s Gobindganj by re-excavating ponds has been rendered fruitless, with the zila parishad leasing out many of the waterbodies for fish farming.
27 August 2022, 03:00 AM

JS body on defence ministry wants tour to see UN peacekeeping mission

After the parliamentary body on the Ministry of Railways wanting foreign tour to gain experience, now the parliamentary standing committee on the Ministry of Defence wants to go abroad to see the activities of Bangladesh Armed Forces members in the United Nations peacekeeping missions.
11 May 2022, 17:12 PM

Why does development equal wastage of public money?

Recently, Dhaka North Mayor Atiqul Islam made some comments with regard to traffic management in the city, some of which are not without inherent logic.
22 March 2022, 18:00 PM

Hajj pilgrimage at taxpayers' expense

Spending Tk 10.15 crore of public money, the religious affairs ministry is sending 318 “pious Muslims”, including financially solvent
8 August 2017, 18:00 PM