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Tarique, Babar and all other accused acquitted in Aug 21 grenade attack case

Staff Correspondent In the notable 21st August grenade attack case, the High Court acquitted all the defendants, including BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment,

Quick power supply act repealed; ordinance issued

Staff Reporter The “Quick Enhancement of Electricity and Energy Supply (Special Provisions) Act, 2010” has been repealed. Following the approval of the Advisory Council, the President issued an ordinance on

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

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