With allegations of senior World Bank (WB) officials intervening in appointing a financial management specialist for the Bangladesh Urban Resilience Project (BURP), the government has landed in an embarrassing position. Even the World Bank admitted  that there was no provision to intervene by any WB official in case any candidate is deemed non-eligible for any government project. The project authorities had issued an expression of interest (EoI), in September 2015, to recruit such a specialist for the WB-funded BURP. The proposal evaluation committee (PEC), then, selected a competent candidate, whose name was sent to the WB office for final approval. But the WB rejected the PEC recommendation and sent it back to the project office for…

In the full text of the Narayanganj seven murder verdict, the trial court said the Rapid Action Battalion…