By Anna Tonelli NEW YORK, Mar 3 2020 (IPS) – This International Women’s Day, 25 years after we first heard it declared that “women’s rights are human rights” at the historic Beijing 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women, we need…
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Travel ban on 22 persons for casino, amassing illegal wealth
Dhaka, Oct 23 – In a major development, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday imposed overseas travel ban on 22 persons including incumbent parliament members mostly from ruling party as part of its investigation into their alleged involvement in running casino…
Turn waste into wealth: World Habitat Day – clean up cities
7 October 2019 – Waste can have a devastating effect on public health, the environment, and the climate, but cutting-edge innovation and technology can provide improved, cheaper solutions to the challenge, and help cities and communities to see waste as…
Make your wealth statements public: BNP to ministers, MPs
Claiming that the government has bogged into corruption, BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed on Saturday demanded the ministers and ruling party MPs make their wealth statements public.
Millions in BD to benefit from wealth arms trader Adnan Khashoggi left
News Desk Today (Thursday, June 6) marks the second anniversary of the death of internationally renowned arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. First in line to mourn his passing is Dr. Moosa Bin Shamsher whose friendship with the arms trading icon extends…
Why inequality matters
There was a time, not long ago, when most economists did not consider inequality in the distribution of income and wealth all that important. True, in Scandinavia and Austria, for example, distributional issues were embedded in economic policy through “social…
Thai king granted full ownership of family wealth
An estimated $30 billion in assets has been handed to Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn in a major shake-up of royal affairs. The move likely makes him the world’s richest monarch. Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn has been handed formal possession of…
NBR to probe politicians’ unusual wealth surge: Muhith
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Tuesday said the National Board of Revenue (NBR) would look into the abnormal or excessive increase in the wealth of individuals or politicians who have submitted their wealth statements to the Election Commission ahead of…