Crime & Corruption

Up to $24b of dev project investments in past 15yrs lost to extortion, bribery, inflated budgets: White Paper body

TDS Desk Of the $60 billion invested in ADP and development projects over the past 15 years, $14-24 billion (equivalent to around Tk1.61-2.8 lakh crore) has been lost to political

UK expatriate doctor killed by tenants at Dhanmondi, 3 arrested

Staff Correspondent Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)’s Ramna Division’s deputy commissioner (DC) Masud Alam addressing a press conference at the DMP Media Center in the capital on Saturday (November 30) morning.

Bullet-ridden body of woman lies on expressway at Munshiganj

Munshiganj Correspondent The bullet-ridden body of a woman lying on Dogachi service road in Shamspur on the highway in Munshiganj around 10:00 am on 30 November 2024. The dead body

Extortion goes on unabated in name of cases

2,500 cases of violence in the student movement filed TDS Desk Since the July Revolution and the events of August 5, over 2,500 cases of violence have been reported nationwide.

Who will account for 17 lakh crores of smuggled funds?

TDS Desk The nation’s economy is grappling with the detrimental effects of smuggling, while expatriates continue to send their hard-earned money back home. Meanwhile, corrupt officials and bribery networks are

ICT projects worth Tk25,000cr: Palak loots crores of taka

TDS Desk A staggering amount of corruption has been debunked in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector, where nearly half of the 22 projects, worth a total of Tk