Crime & Corruption

$16b siphoned off annually during Hasina regime: Panel

TDS Desk A staggering US$16 billion, on average, was siphoned out of Bangladesh every year during Sheikh Hasina’s “corrupt autocracy”, leaving the country in a “state of plunder” when she

Corruption ravages Bangladesh’s key sectors, reveals White Paper

UNB, Dhaka The White Paper on Bangladesh’s economy reveals extensive corruption across public and private sectors, stifling growth, with annual illicit outflows averaging USD 16 billion—over double the combined foreign

Janata Bank files Tk2,000cr loan default case against S Alam Group

TDS Desk Janata Bank PLC has filed a loan default case against S Alam Group, the controversial and prominent business conglomerate in the country, as two of its companies have

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