Progress in many sectors but the railway retrocedes
By: Syed Mahbubur Rashid The railway had been running as a wing of the Ministry of Communication since the inception of Bangladesh. It was treated as a division, but actually it was an apology for the same. It was under the control of the secretary of communication. There was a public demand to create a [...]
Bangladesh’s Railway-gate Corruption – the Prime Minister should rescind her decision to reinstate a corrupt minister
April 25, 2012 1 CommentBy: Dr. Habib Siddiqui, USA Crime and corruption always go hand in hand. Bangladesh, like many of the developing countries, has her share of such vices that never seem to go away. But her people have always expected better and thus with uninhibited enthusiasm participated in all the elections since 1970, a year before the [...]
Continue reading …Railwaygate Scandal; Tk 70 lakh not Suranjit aide’s; Anti-graft body suspects GM Mridha brought it from Ctg
April 23, 2012 No CommentBy: Kailash Sarkar The Anti-Corruption Commission suspects that Yusuf Ali Mridha had brought Tk 70 lakh from Chittagong to Dhaka on April 9 and passed it to Omar Faruq Talukder, the sacked aide of the former railway minister. On that night, the amount was first being carried on the private car of Mridha, the now-suspended [...]
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Jamaluddin Ahmed A story in the Sri Lanka Guardian on April 12th (posted on the Bangladesh Chronicle) reported that the Railway Minister Suranjeet Sen Gupta was complicit in securing 75 lac takas recovered in a bag at the BGB Pilkhana, Dhaka, ostensibly bribe money of some kind. The Minister’s driver, who dashed into this military [...]
Continue reading …Suranjit is back; twisted version given in railwaygate probe; driver still missing.
April 17, 2012 3 Comments
By: The Daily Star Staff Correspondent Govt makes him minister without ministry hours after his ouster; twisted version given in railwaygate probe; driver still missing. In a dramatic move, the government yesterday made Suranjit Sengupta a minister without portfolio, just a day after he stepped down as railway minister amid the railwaygate scandal. The government [...]
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By: The Daily Star Staff Correspondent. The Anti-Corruption Commission decided to investigate properties and income sources of Soumen Sengupta, son of Suranjit Sengupta who resigned yesterday as railway minister following a cash haul involving his APS and two top railway officials. A notice will be served on Soumen today, asking him to give details of [...]
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by William Gomes Source: SRILanka Guardian (April 12, 2012, Dhaka, Sri Lanka Guardian) On April 12, 2012 at around 11:30pm, railway ministry car pulled over at the main entrance to the Pilkhana BGB headquarters in the capital and its driver Ali Azam hollered that there were stashes of bribe money in the vehicle. BGB personnel [...]
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The BNP National Executive Committee meeting that concluded here Sunday night demanded resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for alleged corruption in the Padma multipurpose bridge project, reports UNB. The daylong meeting in its resolutions said the Prime Minister and her cabinet colleagues are “involved in corruption” in the Padma Bridge project. Expressing concern over [...]
Continue reading …Corruption all pervasive but Economy in good shape despite global turmoil : PM
April 3, 2012 1 Comment
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday mentioned the economy is now in good shape when the whole world is facing an economic turmoil. “That means our steps are working properly,” she said, reports UNB. About electricity, she said the use of power by the mass people has increased as their economic condition has improved. “That’s [...]
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By: Staff Correspondent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on Monday, reiterated her pledge to bring corrupt people and plunderers of money to justice, affirming that the trial of perpetrators of crimes against humanity, committed during the Liberation War in 1971, will continue. “Those who have siphoned of hundreds of crores of takas abroad, amassed through corruption [...]
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By: Staff Correspondent Regulators have moved to probe into the Destiny-2000 Ltd scam spotted by Bangladesh Bank, following series of news reports on the issue over the last few days. The Department of Cooperatives (DoC), which is the principal regulator of cooperative societies, has formed a high-powered committee to look into the matter. It has [...]
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M. Adil Khan According to the Italian Social Scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) changes of regimes and revolutions occur not when rulers are overthrown from below but when one group of elite replaces another. The role of ordinary people in such transformations is not that of initiators or principal actors but followers, sometime blindly, helping one [...]
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