land grabbing
Zahir: A lawyer who terrorised Habiganj
Md Abu Zahir, a former Awami League lawmaker, gained notoriety for orchestrating an extensive network of land grabbing and extortion throughout Habiganj
4 December 2024, 18:16 PM
A quiet violence in Bangladesh’s chars
There are plentiful cases of land-grabbing and violence for control over new char or khas land in the country.
12 February 2024, 01:00 AM
An ex-MP’s abuse of power
How did he get away with it for so long?
18 June 2023, 02:00 AM
Tk 2,000cr laundering: Fresh CID probe finds 30 involved
The Criminal Investigation Department has found involvement of at least 30 people in laundering Tk 2,000 crore while investigating a case filed against two Faridpur brothers Sajjad Hossain Barkat and Imtiaz Hasan Rubel.
6 February 2023, 01:35 AM
Mosharraf’s free fall in AL continues
Former LGRD minister and Awami League MP Khandker Mosharraf Hossain’s fall from grace continued yesterday as he was removed from the post of chief of the parliamentary standing committee on the LGRD ministry.
16 January 2023, 01:40 AM
Can ruling party affiliates just grab government land?
Authorities must investigate the allegations and take stern actions
31 December 2022, 10:27 AM
Protect Munda community from land grabbers
Legal action must be taken against all involved in recent attacks
9 September 2022, 08:06 AM
The lucrative enterprise of grabbing
One must recognise the fact that grabbers in Bangladesh have taken the enterprise to the highest level of creativity and perfection.
5 July 2022, 14:00 PM
Rakhine land grabbed in Barguna
Around 70 acres of agricultural land of some 20 Rakhine people have allegedly been grabbed by a private company for setting up a coal-fired power plant in Barguna’s Taltali upazila.
25 April 2019, 18:00 PM
29.60 acres of Dhaleshwari River grabbed: survey
A survey report by Manikganj district administration revealed that a total of 29.60 acres of the Dhaleshwari River in the district have been encroached by land grabbers.
18 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Eviction drive on, so is grabbing
Even as the authorities are removing illegal structures along roads and highways, illegal occupants continue to set up new ones.
9 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Land grabbing: Sylhet industrialist Ragib Ali gets 14yrs’ jail
A Sylhet court jails industrialist Ragib Ali for 14 years and sentences different terms of imprisonment to his son, daughter and two others in a case filed for forging legal papers and grabbing the endowed land of Tarapur Tea Estate in Sylhet.
6 April 2017, 08:44 AM
Women keep vigil to protect homes
Khasi women of two punjees in Moulvibazar's Sreemangal upazila have started guarding their houses and betel leaf gardens in a bid to
10 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Bill placed to free occupied railway land
A bill has been placed at the parliament to recover occupied railway property that has a maximum of seven-year rigorous imprisonment as punishment for defaulters.
9 June 2016, 07:52 AM
Mro life turned upside down
Jhum cultivation is what Kumrao Mro did for a living until recently he has lost his land in Lama upazila of Bandarban to the relentless
28 May 2016, 18:00 PM
ACC nets 13 over different scams
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrests 13 persons from different parts of the country for misappropriating over Tk 9.5 crore and grabbing lands.
19 April 2016, 12:32 PM
Grabbers feast on Dhaka schools
Gendaria Mahila Samity Govt Primary School has over 1,650 students but its compound is so small that just a 10th of the children face difficulty in playing in the ground during recess.
16 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Ruling party men grabbing Hindus’ lands: Ershad
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad alleges that the ruling party men are grabbing lands of the Hindu people who voted the government to power.
26 August 2015, 12:50 PM
Land grabbing in former enclave
As inhabitants of the 166 enclaves celebrate the end of 68 years of statelessness with the historic swapping of enclaves between India and Bangladesh completed, some of them are left to confront some harsh realities on the ground, such as land grabbing by powerful stakeholders in the enclaves that have gone unchallenged for the most part over the past decades.
3 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Land grabbing in former enclave
As inhabitants of the 166 enclaves celebrate the end of 68 years of statelessness with the historic swapping of enclaves between India and Bangladesh completed, some of them are left to confront some harsh realities on the ground, such as land grabbing by powerful stakeholders in the enclaves that have gone unchallenged for the most part over the past decades.
3 August 2015, 18:00 PM