Land grabbing

Land grabbing
The district administration has leased forest department land to shipbuilding industries. The picture is taken recently from Tulatuli area of Sitakunda

Shipbreaking factories in Sitakunda Coastal forest land leased 'tactfully' two yrs after initial failure

Chattogram district administration has leased five acres of forest land to the owner of the same company which failed to take the lease two years ago

Kaptai Lake, an important water body in Rangamati, has become narrow due to encroachment. Different establishments have been constructed occupying the lake area. The picture was taken from the police super office area of the town on Friday.

Kaptai Lake encroachment puts biodiversity at stake

Unscrupulous and influential people including politicians, law enforcers and public representatives have grabbed Kaptai Lake, putting its biodiversity at risk

Brahmanbaria district map

One killed over land dispute in Brahmanbaria

A man was killed and 15 others were injured in a clash between two groups over land dispute in Nasirnagar upazila of Brahmanbaria early Monday

The grabbed lands of Dattapara housing in Tongi

Tongi’s Dattapara housing Grabbers reportedly selling housing authority's land

National Housing Authority is the owner of Dattapara housing. But, almost all of the estate’s 97 acres of land have already been grabbed

Education minister's brother Jawadur Rahim built a huge farm grabbing khas land in Chandpur

Education minister's brother creates 'Tipunagar' on khas land

He misappropriated a huge amount of khas land and built fish enclosures, cattle farms and vegetable plantations. Not satisfied with just taking possession of khas land (fallow land owned by ...

Three girls wearing shroud begin a hunger strike in front of the deputy commissioner office in Barguna on Wednesday in a bid to retrieve their ancestral home and land.

Three sisters wearing shroud go on hunger to recover ancestral property

Three sisters wearing shroud have began a hunger strike in front of the deputy commissioner's office in Barguna on Wednesday in a bid to retrieve their ancestral home and land

A combination of pictures shows the farmhouse (top) owned by Zainul Haque Sikder’s family in Dingamanik area of Shariatpur’s Naria upazila and the abandoned house from which residents have been evicted to build the farmhouse.

Evicted from the Sikder farmhouse

Locals said the Sikders started to enclose the area by erecting a boundary wall after buying land from the locals

Collecting rent has been its sole task for 28 years

Bangladesh Jute Corporation Collecting rent has been its sole task for 28 years

An announcement was made for the closure of Bangladesh Jute Corporation (BJC) in 1993. A cell was formed that year to complete the process, but the cell could not complete its task in the last 28 ...

Parliament Building

3214 acres of railway land under illegal occupation: Minister

Some 3214 acres of land of Bangladesh Railway are now under the clutches of land grabbers across the country, railways minister Nurul Islam Sujan told parliament on Tuesday

100 acres of land dissolve into Nabganga river in Narail

Illegal sand extraction 100 acres of land dissolve into Nabganga river in Narail

About 100 acres of arable land in Hasla area of Babla-Hasla union of Kalia upazila of Narail has been swallowed by the Nabaganga river due to illegal sand extraction by dredger, according to locals.

Map of Cox's Bazar

Cox’s Bazar 'Grabbing land' worth Tk 250m behind dispute

Monaf Sikder, former vice-president of Cox's Bazar district Chhatra League, was shot following a dispute over grabbing land worth around Tk 250 million (25 crore) in a dry fish market near the beach

Trucks are parked in line in a terminal illegally set up by earth filling on the riverbed of Ramchandrapur canal in Lautola Bazar in Bosila of Dhaka’s Mohammadpur. The picture was taken recently.

Illegal truck terminal on canal landfill earns Tk 700,000 a month

An illegal truck terminal has been set up on a landfill created by encroaching on a 200-metres of Ramchandrapur canal in Lautola Bazar in Bosila of Dhaka’s Mohammadpur. The truck drivers’ association ...

Chalantika slum in Mirpur-6

Land worth Tk 118b goes out of govt possession: CAG report

Vested quarters including private housing companies have grabbed at least 847.85 acres of land in different mouzas of Mirpur as the government kept the land unused for years, according to a CAG ...

Editorial

Circular waterbus service a glaring example of failure and inefficiency

The government lunched circular waterbus services in Buriganga with much enthusiasm in 2004 . In a sense this project is almost dead. Eleven out of 12 waterbuses lie idle and one carries passenger ...

High Court

HC orders judicial inquiry into land grabbing in Cox’s Bazar

The High Court on Tuesday ordered a judicial inquiry into how 60 acres of agricultural land were illegally grabbed from their real owners at Muhuripar of Cox’s Bazar district.

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