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Suspended DIG Prisons Bazlur denied bail again
A Dhaka court today again rejects the bail petition of suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of prisons Bazlur Rashid in connection with a case filed over amassing Tk 3.08 crore beyond his known source of income.
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Corruption destroys Bangladesh’s economy: Fakhrul
The country’s economy has been destroyed due to corruption at all sectors of the country, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says.
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Graft: Shahjadpur sub-registrar suspended
The law ministry has suspended Subrata Kumar Das, sub-registrar of Shahjadpur in Sirajganj, on charge of committing professional misconduct and corruption.
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Continue drives against graft, drugs: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asks the government officials to continue drives against corruption and drugs as well as design development projects in a planned way.
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Corrupt Milk Vita officials to be punished: State minister
Stern actions will be taken against corrupt Milk Vita officials and engineers to stop irregularities at the state-owned entity, State Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Swapan Bhattacharjee says.
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TIB survey on Dhaka Wasa: Rampant graft, poor service
Nearly 45 percent service seekers in the capital don’t get the desired amount of water from Dhaka Wasa, Transparency International Bangladesh said yesterday citing its survey.
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Plagued by corruption
The Anti-Corruption Commission has identified 22 sources of corruption plaguing the state-run Titas Gas for years.
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Rajuk's 'absolute power corrupts absolutely'
British historian Lord Acton's 130-year-old observation that a person's sense of morality diminishes as his/her power increases is true
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Maldives court orders arrest of ex-president over graft
A court in the Maldives orders the arrest and detention of former president Abdulla Yameen on suspicion of money laundering.
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Jaha Alam released from jail
Jaha Alam who was in jail for the last three years instead of the real accused in 26 corruption cases, is released from prison.
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Questioning the role of parents
As with global warming, Bangladesh has not contributed to the rise of global terrorism anymore than it has contributed to formulating or debating over the definition of “terrorism” itself. Nonetheless, the country is saddled with the spill-over consequences of this crisis, one being the rise of “posh” militants as apparent from the backgrounds of the Gulshan attackers who broke our traditional belief that the root of terrorism lies in poverty, poor education, and madrasas.
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Corrupt individuals must be punished: President
President M Abdul Hamid asks the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to disseminate the warning message to all levels that corrupt individuals, whoever he or she may be, must get punishment.
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Greater enforcement of law needed to fight graft, fraud
As many as 98 percent of the corporate professionals and businesspeople in Bangladesh believe there is a need for greater
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Bangladesh performs better on Graft Index
It is indeed good news that Bangladesh climbed two spots (index score is out of 100 where a higher score is better) in the global Corruption Perceptions Index 2017. Of course that's nothing to write home about since we scored 28 out of 100, where the global average is 43.
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Corruption in police
The comments of a deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) at a recent police conference show the prevalence of corruption in the postings of officers-in-charge and sub-inspectors. According to the DC, prospective OCs have to pay amounts as high as Tk 30 lakh to Tk 1.5 crore for their postings. The amount of bribes for transfers of sub-inspector also goes into the lakhs.
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BNP mulls second round of agitation
The first spell of the BNP's agitation programmes over the jailing of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia came to an end yesterday with the
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BNP holds sit-in, demands Khaleda’s release
BNP is holding a sit-in programme across the country demanding the release of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who was sentenced to five years in jail in a corruption case on Thursday.
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BNP self-proclaimed corrupt party: Obaidul
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says BNP is a “self-proclaimed corrupt party.”
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Corruption is anti-development
Corruption is pervasive in Bangladesh, a key challenge against development and social transformation. Corruption is so deep and wide at both micro and micro levels that it threatens to become a way of life.
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‘Stay alert against corrupted elements in govt’
Prime minister’s International Affairs Adviser Dr Gowher Rizvi calls upon all to stay alert against those in the government who propagate corruption.
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Corruption, not rats broke down the dams
We are surprised that even after three months since the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case against 61 people for mismanagement and corruption in the construction of dams in the haor areas, the water and resources minister, at a recent dialogue, would remark that an onslaught of rats caused the damage.
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Back to 'rat theory'
Over three months after the Anti-Corruption Commission sued 61 people for mismanagement and corruption in the construction of
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Corruption eating away relief for the public
A report titled “World Food Security and Nutrition Situation-2017”, brought out jointly by a number of UN organisations, estimates that some 25 million Bangladeshis, mostly women and children, suffer from malnutrition.
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Challenges ahead to reach 4 SDG targets
Corruption, bribery, money laundering and human rights violation continue unabated in the country, posing serious challenges to the achievement of four targets of Sustainable Development Goal-16, Transparency International Bangladesh has said.
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Graft cases drag on as defence dillydallies
Defence lawyers' delaying tactic to prolong many corruption cases is slowing down the overall progress of the Anti-Corruption Commission, says ACC Chairman Iqbal Mahmood.
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Not everybody is corrupt
We must thank the finance minister for acknowledging the reality that it is the powerful that indulge in corruption, something that is known to all but acknowledged by few.
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Nawaz Sharif ousted by court
Pakistan's Supreme Court disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office yesterday over undeclared assets, plunging the nuclear-armed South Asian nation into political turmoil after a period of relative stability.
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PM's advice to the DCs
The prime minister has asked the deputy commissioners to take a stand against corruption. We welcome this instruction being timely and appropriate.
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No corruption in any form, PM warns govt officials
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina warns government officials against corruption saying that there should be no dishonesty in any form.The prime minister comes up with the tough warning in her introductory speech at the second Secretary Committee meeting.
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Ex-head of Salvadoran football federation given 8 years in prison
The former president of El Salvador's football federation, who is wanted in the United States for alleged corruption, was sentenced to eight years in Salvadoran prison for labor fraud, the country's attorney general's office said on Monday.