Advisers’ asset disclosures and a test for the new government
16 February 2026, 00:00 AM
The interim government’s (IG) disclosure of the assets of advisers on February 10, just days before the scheduled end of its tenure, was not only delayed by 533 days after its commitment to do so, but was also incomplete, flawed, and unfit for purpose.
16 February 2026, 00:00 AM
Bangladesh in CPI 2025: Fall of kleptocracy, or a temporary setback?
11 February 2026, 01:37 AM
To be clear, corruption remains a global menace, and, as on previous occasions, no country has scored full marks. Over 67 percent of countries (or 122) scored below 50 percent in 2025, and 96 countries, or nearly 54 percent, scored below the global average.
11 February 2026, 01:37 AM
Anti-corruption drives fail, not inevitably but deliberately
24 January 2026, 19:42 PM
Corruption is too insidious a menace to be controlled by ad hoc, pick-and-choose measures, the way chronic cancer cannot be helped by some selected painkillers.
24 January 2026, 19:42 PM
The police commission ordinance is an eyewash at best
14 December 2025, 03:00 AM
The longstanding public demand and decades of relentless advocacy by stakeholders, particularly articulated as a key aspiration of the July movement, for an independent police commission, have been ruthlessly and shamelessly shattered by the Police Commission Ordinance 2025, gazetted on December 09, 2025.
14 December 2025, 03:00 AM
Opinion / Can we break the triad of corruption, rights abuse, and injustice?
9 December 2025, 02:00 AM
Every year, the International Anti-Corruption Day is observed on December 9, shortly followed by the International Human Rights Day.
9 December 2025, 02:00 AM
Bangladesh in CPI 2024 / Can we rise back up from the abyss of corruption?
12 February 2025, 02:00 AM
The recommendations of the Anti-Corruption Reform Commission must be implemented with a specific focus on the ACC’s true independence and accountability.
12 February 2025, 02:00 AM
International Anti-Corruption Day / Why bringing the laundered money back may not be easy
9 December 2024, 03:00 AM
Dirty money is conveniently welcomed in host economies, becoming clean until proven otherwise.
9 December 2024, 03:00 AM
Interview / External forces must not interfere with the media
12 November 2024, 02:00 AM
Dr Iftekharuzzaman, executive director of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), speaks with Naznin Tithi of The Daily Star.
12 November 2024, 02:00 AM
It could have been better
Bangladesh has scored 28 on a scale of 0-100 according to the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2017 released by Transparency International (TI) on February 22, 2018. The score is two points higher than that of 2016, which ranked Bangladesh 17th from below, two steps better than the previous year's position of 15th. Counting from the top we are at 143, which is also an improvement of two steps from 2016.
22 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Promoting transparency
The government of Bangladesh recognises combating corruption as critical to progress towards realising the Perspective Plan - Vision 2021, the 7th Five Year Plan (7FYP) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
26 February 2017, 18:00 PM
We deserve better
Bangladesh has scored 26 on a scale of 0-100 according to the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2016 released by Transparency International (TI) on January 25, 2017.
25 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Corruption control–is it feasible or a fantasy?
Under SDG target 16.5, Bangladesh is under obligation to “substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms”
8 December 2016, 18:00 PM
We can do better
According to the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2015 released by Transparency International (TI) on January 27, 2016, Bangladesh has scored 25 in a scale of 100, same as last year and two points less than 2013.
27 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Corruption and political instability: A threat to security?
“Under former President Moi, his Kalenjin tribesmen ate. Now it's our turn to eat," so said politicians and civil servants belonging to the then newly elected Kenyan president Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe in January 2003 to John Githongo, Minister for Governance and Ethics.
11 March 2015, 19:46 PM
Directives against CHT
THE Government of Bangladesh, the Ministry of Home in particular, has come up with a set of directives concerning the indigenous people of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) that are contradictory to the 1997 Peace Accord and detrimental to the core values and spirit of the country's Liberation War and independence.
4 March 2015, 18:00 PM