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Dipan Nandy

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Anti-Corruption Commission: Commissioners take charge after 168-day void

19 August 2026
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.
19 August 2026
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ACC case backlog keeps growing

31 July 2026
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.
31 July 2026
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Over 300 in race for top ACC posts

23 July 2026
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.
23 July 2026
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Built for convenience, crippled by neglect

21 July 2026
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.
21 July 2026
Dhaka footbridges unsafe for pedestrians

Dhaka’s footbridges: Built to keep pedestrians safe, now driving them away

19 July 2026
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.
19 July 2026
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Band-aid fixes won’t solve Dhaka’s waterlogging

14 July 2026
Dhaka’s persistent waterlogging is driven by fragmented management, the lack of an integrated master plan, unchecked urbanisation, and the steady disappearance of wetlands and canals, according to experts.
14 July 2026
Dhaka waterlogging

Downpour drowns Dhaka

13 July 2026
Hours of heavy rain yesterday left large parts of Dhaka submerged in ankle- to waist-deep water, crippling traffic, and stranding commuters on streets and people in their homes.
13 July 2026
Dhaka traffic disrupted by floodwater

A 3.4 km journey through floodwater took 90 mins in Dhaka today

12 July 2026
Commuters waded through chest-deep stretches as buses and other vehicles stalled along the route
12 July 2026
Durga Puja festival in Bangladesh

Durga Puja, a festival of faith and togetherness

As dawn breaks and the first rays of sunlight  streams through your window, you hear the rhythmic beat of drums and the joyful clanging of cymbals coming from a nearby temple.
11 October 2024
Mohiuddin Ahmed Mohi, a former chairman of Bangladesh Samabaya Bank Ltd

How 11,000 bhori gold embezzled from Samabaya Bank

Mohiuddin Ahmed Mohi, a former chairman of Bangladesh Samabaya Bank Ltd, embezzled over 11,000 bhori (each bhori is 11.66 grammes) of mortgaged gold from 2,316 customers prior to 2021.
1 October 2024
Asaduzzaman Mia, wife concealed assets in tax returns

Mia, wife concealed assets in tax returns

When Asaduzzaman Mia retired as the longest-serving Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner in 2019, by his own admission, he went home with about Tk 1.75 crore in service benefits. But that does not give a true picture of his wealth accumulation. Fact is, the career cop and his family became muc
15 September 2024
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ACC to work with FBI to bring back laundered money

The Anti-Corruption Commission has decided to work with the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the US to bring back money siphoned off abroad.
9 September 2024
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Ex-bureaucrats to be under ACC scanner

The Anti-Corruption Commission has recently decided in principle to investigate corruption allegations against those former top bureaucrats who served during the Awami League rule over the last 15 years.
6 September 2024
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Seizing black money: ACC to start special drive next week

The Anti-Corruption Commission is set to launch a special drive next week against corrupt individuals and black money.
30 August 2024
Wasa Managing Director Taqsem A Khan

ACC restarts probe against Taqsem

The Anti-Corruption Commission has reinitiated an investigation against Taqsem A Khan, former managing director of Dhaka Wasa, on charges of corruption.
20 August 2024
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High-ranking cops concerned as ACC probe looms

The high-ranking police officials loyal to the previous Awami League regime, are now passing days amid fear of losing their jobs, lawsuits, arrests and public wrath.
20 August 2024
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Corruption allegations: ACC to investigate 41 ex-ministers, MPs

The Anti-Corruption Commission has decided to initiate probes into allegations of graft against 41 who had been ministers, state ministers, and lawmakers of the Awami League between 2009 and 2024.
19 August 2024
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Disruption of services leave residents in limbo

Mohammad Atique, a resident of Gandaria, has been visiting the local councillor’s office for the last several days as he needs a citizenship certificate for his son.
14 August 2024
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At least 259 cops took treatment there

For over a week, three-year-old Namira and one-year-old Nadira have had their smiles wiped off their faces.
29 July 2024
Graft allegations against Benazir Ahmed

Benazir, Family: ACC fails to estimate value of some assets

The Anti-Corruption Commission could not determine the value of some of the properties amassed by former inspector general of police Benazir Ahmed, his wife, and two daughters.
25 July 2024
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Our daughters still await his return

Even two days ago, Farzana Popy had been living a life full of love and happiness with her husband and two daughters.
24 July 2024
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Patients with bullet, pellet wounds: Dhaka hospitals stretched to the limit

Some of them are teens, some in early 20s  and many are middle-aged men. The one thing common between all of them is that they have been shot either by shotgun pellets or bullets, as police and BGB opened fire at protesters and alleged infiltrators during the recent unrest centring the quota protests.
23 July 2024

DMCH morgue never been thicker with grief

The air at Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue was never this thick with grief before yesterday.
20 July 2024
Waterlogging in Dhaka

Dhaka city corporations: Waterlogging forever?

Despite many initiatives and spending over Tk 730 crore over the past four years, Dhaka city corporations have failed to make any visible progress in mitigating the waterlogging problem.
13 July 2024
Graft allegations against Benazir Ahmed

Benazir, Family: Illegal assets worth Tk 43.5 crore found by ACC

The Anti-Corruption Commission has found illegal assets worth Tk 43.5 crore belonging to former inspector general of police Benazir Ahmed, his wife, and two daughters.
6 July 2024
Customs Commissioner Enamul Haque

Customs official acquired Tk 6.43cr properties in 8yrs

In just eight years, Customs Commissioner Mohammad Enamul Haque bought properties that, on paper, cost him over Tk 6.43 crore.
5 July 2024
NBR transfers tax official amid graft scandal

A corrupt taxman and his ‘blessed’ in-laws

“When you rise, lift others [read in-laws in this case] with you”-- even if it means bending a few rules along the way.
5 July 2024
court orders seizure of NBR official's assets

A corrupt taxman and his 'blessed' in-laws

Faisal, his relatives undervalued their properties in official documents, claims ACC
5 July 2024

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