Truth commission okayed: Graft suspects may avoid jail by confessing crimes, giving up ill-gotten wealth

The cabinet yesterday approved formation of the Truth and Accountability Commission (TAC), providing corruption suspects with an avenue to avoid imprisonment in exchange for confessions and surrender of their illegally earned wealth or the equivalent amount in cash to the

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Nazrul’s 109th birth anniversary today (25 May)

The 109th birth anniversary of the national poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam, the voice of dissent and revolution whose poems and songs were a clarion call to the oppressed and the indignant, will be observed today. The government and several socio-cultural

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