Bangladesh

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has started probe against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and his son Sajeeb Wazed Joy on charge of laundering money $300 million to New York and London. The anti-graft body disclosed the information on Sunday morning. Earlier, the ACC formed a five-member team to investigate allegations that Sheikh Hasina, Joy, her sister Sheikh Rehana, and Rehana’s ...

Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Nahid Islam has observed that pervasive corruption in the road and transport sector has not stopped, rather it has remained as usual. “A political party indulged in corruption of the transport sector earlier, creating a total anarchy in the sector. Now another political party becomes involved in corruption. A political influence is interconnected with the ...

The Mass Uprising Special Cell (MUSC) has published its first phase draft list of 858 martyred and 11,551 injured during the July-August student led mass uprising. It released the list on its website at https://musc.portal.gov.bd/ on Saturday (December 21). A press release, signed by Assistant Secretary Khandaker Jahirul Islam, confirmed the matter on Saturday. Two separate first phase draft lists ...

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner SM Sazzat Ali on Saturday said that the list of extortionists in Dhaka city is being prepared and law enforcers will begin their drives within two to three days. He shared the information at a view-exchange meeting with police, students and residents of Ramna area at Institution of Diploma Engineers in Dhaka on Saturday. The ...

Former social welfare secretary Ismail Hossain has been placed on two-day remand on Saturday. Earlier, Ismail was arrested from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Friday night. Ershad Ahmed, officer-in-charge of the Airport Police Station, said that Ismail was arrested as a suspect from the airport terminal at around 10PM on Friday while he was attempting to travel to ...

Interim Government’s Civil Aviation, Tourism and Land Adviser AF Hassan Ariff’s second namaj-e-janaza was held on the High Court premises on Saturday morning. Judges of the Supreme Court and High Court divisions, the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association and other lawyers attended the funeral. Earlier on Friday, after Esha prayers, Ariff’s first janaza was held at Baitul Aman ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus returned home on Friday (December 20) evening wrapping up his Egypt tour to attend the 11th D-8 Summit. “A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the chief adviser and his entourage reached the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka around 5:00pm,” Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder told BSS. On Thursday (Dec 19), ...

Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives Adviser AF Hassan Ariff has passed away. He died of heart attack at LabAid Hospital in the capital at about 3:10pm today (Friday). His assistant personal secretary (APS) Md Abed Chowdhury has confirmed about his death. Hassan Ariff’s son Muaaz Ariff said his father had suddenly fell down on the floor in their apartment. ...

DNA reports have confirmed that the flesh and bones recovered by the West Bengal police’s criminal investigating department (CID) as part of their investigation into the murder of Bangladesh MP Md Anwarul Azim (Anar) belonged to the slain lawmaker, reports Hindustan Times. The CID collected DNA samples from his daughter, Mumtarin Ferdous Doreen, who came to Kolkata in November this ...

Bangladesh has been named the ‘County of the year for 2024’ by The Economist, a London-based prestigious magazine. Every year, The Economist chooses one country that has shown the most remarkable improvement over the past year and this year Bangladesh was given the honour. Besides, Syria was the runner-up after ousting its autocrat, Bashar al-Assad. Argentina earned recognition for economic ...