The medicines, which are manufactured in a state-owned factory for distribution among patients free of cost in the public hospitals, are found selling in the city’s open market, violating rules.The medicines are manufactured in the factory named Essential Drugs Limited at Bogra and then sent to the country’s public hospitals for patients. As such, the responsibility to protect those medicines from illegal sale implies with the hospitals’ authorities.But some unscrupulous employees and officials of the hospitals in collaboration with a...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has not yet taken any decision to speed up inquiry into the financial scam at Bangladesh Small Industries and Commerce (BASIC) Bank Limited although Bangladesh Bank (BB) sent a probe report on it to the ACC five days ago. The central bank sent the report on Tuesday detailing how borrowers embezzled money from the BASIC Bank through fake companies and suspected accounts, after concluding a special inspection into the scam in the first week of this...

The Election Commission (EC) is in the state of uncertainty as to whether it will be able to hold two Dhaka City Corporations’ (DCCs) polls during the present government’s tenure, sources in EC said.  The government’s indifference to delimitation is taken to be the main reason behind the EC’s uncertainty.The EC requested the government several times for accelerating delimitation to pave the way for the elections but in vain. Besides, the EC, in its current fiscal year (2014-15) budget, did...