Sakhawat Hossain Bangladeshi expatriates returning via Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka are often harassed and extorted by airport staff. Mohammed Tipu (65), a 36-year Saudi expat, was stopped on Thursday morning by customs officials who wanted ৳20,000 in taxes on 66 kg of dates and fruits that he had brought as gifts. Officers seized […]Continue Reading

Panchayet Habib Dhaka Power Distribution Company Limited (DPDC) is under intense scrutiny following an official inquiry that revealed widespread corruption and irregularities in a government-to-government (G2G) project valued at around Tk 22,000 crore that was carried out during the previous Awami League government. An estimated Tk 100 crore was lost as a result of the Continue Reading

Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh has strongly protested the appointment of Gaibandha-4 MP Mohammad Shamim Kaisar Lincoln as State Minister for Religious Affairs and urged the government to reconsider and cancel the appointment. Hefazat Publicity Secretary Mufti Kifayatullah Azhari expressed the protest in a statement sent to the media on Friday night. Kaisar had taken oath as Continue Reading

Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat has strongly protested the appointment of MP Mohammad Shamim Kaisar Lincoln as State Minister for Religious Affairs and urged the government to reconsider the decision. The demand was made in a press statement issued by the organisation’s central council on Friday, signed by its office secretary SM Tarek Hossain. Chairman Mufti […]Continue Reading