Md Abu Zahir, a former Awami League lawmaker, gained notoriety for orchestrating an extensive network of land grabbing and extortion throughout Habiganj
There are plentiful cases of land-grabbing and violence for control over new char or khas land in the country.
How did he get away with it for so long?
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.
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.
Authorities must investigate the allegations and take stern actions
Legal action must be taken against all involved in recent attacks
One must recognise the fact that grabbers in Bangladesh have taken the enterprise to the highest level of creativity and perfection.
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.
Even as the authorities are removing illegal structures along roads and highways, illegal occupants continue to set up new ones.
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.
Khasi women of two punjees in Moulvibazar's Sreemangal upazila have started guarding their houses and betel leaf gardens in a bid to
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.
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
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrests 13 persons from different parts of the country for misappropriating over Tk 9.5 crore and grabbing lands.
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.
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad alleges that the ruling party men are grabbing lands of the Hindu people who voted the government to power.
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.
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.
