‘If a conservative estimate of 15% is used in “bribes to process applications” then during the FYs 2002-2003 to 2008-2009 at least Rs 998,15,38,153 or Rs. 142,59,34,022 per year were removed from funds to the poor and given in bribes to different layers of officials approving the projects. This is literally stealing the money of […]
Despite a return to democracy in December 1990, the Bangladesh Army remains “the power behind the throne” in Dhaka. Its control over the security forces is absolute. A large number of senior positions in the Bangladesh Navy and Bangladesh Air Force are served by Army officers as per Section 2A of the Army Act of […]
Available at The Tribune 03 June 2019 Despite signing the UNCAT in 1997, India has not ratified it, due to which getting fugitives extradited from foreign countries also becomes difficult The alleged custodial death of a 58-year-old man at the Bawana police station in Delhi has once again brought to the fore the inhuman face […]
