Afghan police continued search for Nurul Islam, a BRAC official abducted in Afghanistan 20 days ago, a BRAC spokesman in Dhaka said Thursday. “Rescue efforts are on. We are in constant communication with the Afghan government. Afghan police are trying hard to rescue the kidnapped Bangladeshi citizen. We hope the search will see a...
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Cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission against former prime minister Khaleda Zia, her sons Tarique Rahman and Arafat Rahman, her cabinet colleagues Moudud Ahmed and Nazmul Huda and Nazmul’s wife Sigma Huda were challenged in the High Court Thursday. Six writ petitions challenging the cases were filed that would be heard one...
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BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain Thursday said holding a free and fair election and restoration of democracy will be impossible with leading politicians behind the bars. “People suspect ploys in holding of elections without the two main leaders. Nothing can be anticipated over the polls at this moment but it seems...
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Photo: September 27, Front Page, New Age. On Wednesday, Berlin-based Transparency International (TI) released its Corruption Perceptions Index for 2007. The Daily Star newspaper in Bangladesh announced the news with the headline “Bangladesh improves on its graft image: Climbs up to 7th position from bottom of TI’s corruption index.” Indeed Bangladesh...
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The National Coordination Committee Against Corruption and Serious Crimes (NCC) will meet in its office in the army headquarters Thursday to finalize the list of corruption suspects and evaluate the progress in the activities of the anti-graft task forces. The final list is being prepared by the anti-graft committee “based on the...
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The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Wednesday sued the eldest son of former prime minister, Khaleda Zia, Tarique Rahman, his wife Zubaida Rahman and mother-in-law Syeda Iqbal Mand Banu on charges of concealing information on their assets. They will face charges of illegally earning Taka 4.82 crore and suppressing information on illegally acquired...
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Leading economists of the country have rejected Bangladesh’s ranking in the Transparency International’s corruption perception index (CPI), saying that the report did not include broader perspective of corruption that can reflect a realistic picture. When their attention was drawn to country’s slight elevation in position in 2007, not in terms of score...
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Bangladesh’s position has remained steady in terms of integrity as it ranked 162 among 180 countries in the corruption perceptions index (CPI) 2007, Transparency International said Wednesday. Bangladesh scored 2.0 points, the same as it did in 2006, on a scale of 10 points. Countries with a score below 3 are described...
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The central bank in Bangladesh has instructed banks to maintain “enhanced due diligence” about the accounts of “politically exposed persons” (PEP). The Bangladesh Bank in a circular, issued Tuesday, asked the banks to be more cautious when the PEP or their family members want to open bank accounts. The central bank issued...
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Bangladeshi chess player Abdullah Al Rakib has been officially announced as a Grandmaster by the World Chess Federation (FIDE). The third quarter presidential board meeting of the FIDE, held on September 13-14 in Mexico, approved Rakib’s Grandmaster title, and the FIDE Elishta (Russia) office Tuesday confirmed it to the Bangladesh Chess Federation....
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