Land grabbing
Land grabbing3214 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
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.
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Former MP accused of murder
Let the case be settled in court, not by ‘gunfight’
One of the accused in the Shahinuddin murder case has been killed in a 'gunfight' with the law enforcement. Was this gunfight staged to protect anyone?
Ex-MP Awal remanded over Pallabi murder
A Dhaka court on Friday placed former lawmaker of Lakshmipur-1 constituency and Islami Ganatantri Party chairman MA Awal on four-day remand in a case lodged over the murder of one Shahin Uddin in ...
Awami League leader occupies govt land in Faridpur
A local Awami League leader has been accused of occupying government land at the dead of night at Boalmari upazila in Faridpur
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