Come, if you may, with swords or guns. Remember, I won’t cry and run; I will rise from the depths of the land.

The Politics of Land Law: Poverty and Land Legislation in Bangladesh (University Press Ltd, 2021), a book by Dr Masum Billah, Associate Professor of Jagannath University, was launched in a virtual programme held by UPL on October 2, 2021.

They were once government land. But over the years powerful people occupied them and built establishments on them as they liked. Now the government wants to reclaim them with taxpayers' money.

Seven people died in Bangladesh last year in defending their homes and land from power or agricultural projects as opposed to no

The government has endorsed a draft law that will hand a maximum of seven-year imprisonment to occupants and grabbers of railway land.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith say the land related services in the country will be digitised by 2020.

The High Court has issued a contempt of court rule against Shishu Academy director and secretary to women and children affairs ministry for not handing over a Supreme Court land despite an apex court order.