Photo: Md Sakibul Hasan / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0Independent forensic journalism on Bangladesh's public money · Dhaka
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Every taka the state spends leaves a paper trail. We read the whole trail, line by line, and publish what it says.
Photo: Md Sakibul Hasan / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0Independent forensic journalism on Bangladesh's public money · Dhaka
Every taka the state spends leaves a paper trail. We read the whole trail, line by line, and publish what it says.
What moved this week, checked against the documents. Published weekly.
The NEEDLE pass. One deep read every Friday: the week's numbers, the contracts behind them, and what to watch next.
Long-form forensic work. Every figure sourced, every mechanism named, every claim falsifiable.
The numbers this newsroom stands behind. Tracked weekly, revised only when the source moves.
The data desk
Six views of the same ledger, drawn in the newsroom's own hand. Figures marked tracked come from the weekly figure watch; charts marked sample use illustrative data while the dataset is being built. Hover any mark for the number behind it.
Column chart · compare categories
Figure watch · Tk crore · New Age, 06 Jun 2026; The Business Standard, Jun–Sep 2026
Donut chart · show parts of a whole
Figure watch · Tk 52,608 cr capacity payments against Tk 37,000 cr subsidy allocation
Scatter plot · approved vs revised cost per DPP · ECNEC 6 Apr 2026
ECNEC 6 Apr 2026 approvals · BSS wire, bdnews24, TBS · Tk crore
Sankey diagram · visualize flows · Tk crore
Figure watch · Tk 56,000 cr required → Tk 15,000 cr tariff relief → Tk 41,000 cr net → Tk 37,000 cr budgeted
Network graph · map connections · edge widths illustrative; node figures tracked
Figure watch · hover a node for its exposure
Treemap · show hierarchical structure · Tk crore
Figure watch · area ∝ taka
Working papers, datasets, and method notes. The audit trail behind the journalism.
