How to rob a bank in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, we sometimes play We Also Have. This is a parlor game in which we can say, with pride, that we now have the things that could previously be found only in other countries.
In the 1990s, it was satellite television (we also have MTV!); in the 2000s, it was shopping malls and high-rise buildings and multiplex cinemas. This year, it was a Hollywood-style bank heist.
In January, a man going by the name of Sohel and his accomplice Idris successfully stole 169 million taka (about $2.2 million) from a branch of Sonali Bank in Kishoreganj, 70 miles north of the capital, Dhaka.
Narayanganj 7-murder: Rab officers ‘asked to kill Nur too’
A top official of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) had ordered former Rab officers Lt Col Tareque Sayeed Mohammad and Maj Arif Hossain to kill Nur Hossain, alleged mastermind of the seven-murder incident in Narayanganj.
The top official gave the order when Tareque, commanding officer (CO) of Rab 11, and Arif, company commander of the elite force unit, met him at the Rab headquarters two days after a Rab team led by Arif had killed Narayanganj City Corporation panel mayor Nazrul Islam and six others, reports the Daily Star.
They, however, did not execute the order as the situation in Narayanganj had already heated up following the abduction, sources said quoting from the confessional statement of Arif Hossain.
Two-year jail term for child marriage
The government on Monday approved a law setting a two-year jail term for anyone involved in marrying a girl aged under 18, in a bid to cut the country's notoriously high child marriage rate.
The new law comes days after new UN figures showed 
two-thirds of Bangladeshi girls marry before they reach adulthood. It targets the parents or guardians and the marriage registrar as well as the groom, reports AFP.
"Anyone found responsible for child marriage, including the groom, the marriage registrar or the guardians, would...
two-thirds of Bangladeshi girls marry before they reach adulthood. It targets the parents or guardians and the marriage registrar as well as the groom, reports AFP.
"Anyone found responsible for child marriage, including the groom, the marriage registrar or the guardians, would...
Most part of fund for Gorai project goes down the drain
Major irregularities and shoddy work have been detected in the Tk 9.42 billion Gorai river restoration project (phase-II), officials said.
Such irregularities have seriously undermined the main objectives of reducing salinity and ensuring higher water flow in the Gorai River, an evaluation report of the government’s Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) has revealed.
Officials concerned said the salinity of the Gorai River has increased, water flow has not improved and the river erosion is continuing even after completion of the major portion of the project in last five years, the Financial Express reports.
ACC sues MP Bodi, ex-state ministers Mannan, Mahbubur for illegal wealth
The Anti-Corruption Commission today sued an incumbent lawmaker and two former state ministers on charges of amassing illegal wealth.
The accused are Awami League’s Cox’s Bazar-4 lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi and former state minister for water resources Mahbubur Rahman and state minister for housing and public works Abdul Mannan Khan.
ACC Deputy Directors Khairul Huda, Nasir Uddin and Abdus Subhan filed separate cases with the Ramna Police Station in Dhaka around 4:00pm, Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya, media and public relations offi...
ACC Deputy Directors Khairul Huda, Nasir Uddin and Abdus Subhan filed separate cases with the Ramna Police Station in Dhaka around 4:00pm, Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya, media and public relations offi...
WB changes approach to tackling corruption in BD
After the much-publicised Padma bridge episode, the World Bank (WB) has now realigned its approach to tackling corruption in projects.
Previously, the multilateral lender would wash its hands off projects as soon as allegations of corruption surfaced. But now, in essence, it will carry on with the projects but will work with local authorities to identify and snuff out the issues.
“When evidence of corruption comes to light, its response should not be to disengage, but to engage differently,” it said in its Country Assistance Strategy Progress Report.
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