Dipan Nandy

The Anti-Corruption Commission is set to seek information from the UAE government about properties allegedly acquired in Dubai through money laundering by 73 Bangladeshis, including former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, former Premier Bank chairman HBM Iqbal and former Padma Bank chairman Chowdhury Nafis Sarafat.

In 2006, the then undivided Dhaka City Corporation established a community centre in Segunbagicha, one of the capital’s most densely populated neighbourhoods.

Dhaka’s passenger sheds remain occupied, neglected

The Anti-Corruption Commission got three new commissioners yesterday. Ending the longest vacancy in the watchdog’s history, they joined 168 days after the previous commissioners quit.

In 2015, the Anti-Corruption Commission filed 59 cases over the Basic Bank loan scam. Over a decade later, most remain unresolved. Earlier this year, courts even ordered fresh investigations into several of the cases after finding flaws in the original probes.

Over 300 people have expressed interest in leading the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) as the government moves to reconstitute the watchdog, which has remained without commissioners for nearly four months.

For years, 68-year-old Abdul Mannan avoided using the Banani Sainik Club footbridge. Suffering from chronic knee pain, he found climbing its steep stairs exhausting.

In the midst of heavy traffic, Ripa Rudra, along with her two-year-old son, was standing next to a footbridge at the Nabisco intersection in the capital’s Tejgaon around 8:00pm.