Sajjad Hossain

Imdadul Haque Soofi, information and research affairs secretary of Dhaka’s ward-18 unit of Awami League, is a beneficiary of the Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor’s discretionary funds.

Travellers were undeterred by the ongoing heatwave or higher accommodation and transport costs as tourist destinations across Bangladesh were bustling with activity during the recent holiday centring Eid-ul-Fitr.

Thousands of people visit the Dhaka North City Corporation Zone-5 office (Karwan Bazar) every day to obtain its services, unaware of the dangers they might face.

Businesses across the country had mixed bag of reactions when asked about their sales prior to the just-concluded Eid-ul-Fitr on April 22, with many blaming an inflation-induced rise in the cost of living and a heatwave taking a toll on shoppers. 

Salt farming in Bangladesh has reached the highest level this year since commercial production began in the country six decades ago thanks to favourable weather conditions.

Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) has filled 11 acres of the 53-acre water retention area of Goidartek in the capital’s Gabtoli for a four-storey building, meant for a tissue culture laboratory.

Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) has filled 11 acres of 53-acre water retention area of Goidartek in the capital’s Gabtoli for a four-story building meant for a tissue culture laboratory.

To celebrate Eid with their loved ones, thousands left Dhaka yesterday on trains, buses, and launches, and their journeys were mostly free of hassles.

Traders of Dhaka’s New Super Market are desperately trying to reopen their business after the firemen doused the fire and handed over the market to the market authorities around 10:00am yesterday.

New Super Market traders lament their loss as fire guts their livelihood

Sarees, worth about Tk 85 lakh, were completely damaged at Razzak's shops on the second floor of the market. He, however, could save around 15 percent of his stock after throwing sacks filled with sarees to the ground from the second floor

This correspondent went to the area and found that some of the affected businessmen were able to move their goods to a safe area as clothing and other items were being thrown out of the third-floor window onto the street

Saiful Islam, owner of three shops at the New Super Market, tried his best to retrieve clothes from his shop after a massive fire ripped through the market early today. But he failed.

Coaches are overcharging people heading for the north by up to Tk 900, taking advantage of the Eid rush, poor monitoring, and no set fare for long-haul air-conditioned buses.

Traders of Bangabazar Shopping Complex, which was burnt to the ground in Tuesday’s devastating fire, have set up temporary shops on the streets to continue their business after losing everything in the flames.

Smoke rises from burnt market on fifth day

A six-year-old city corporation initiative to build a 10-storey shopping mall at Bangabazar never saw the light of day because of disagreements between the shop owners and the corporation.

They invested the money they had and the money they could borrow in the hope of good business ahead of Eid but within a few hours yesterday, they lost everything.

A massive fire ripped through the capital’s Bangabazar Shopping Complex yesterday, burning down at least 2,931 shops full of clothes and ruining the livelihood of several thousand traders just weeks before Eid.

Moments after the catastrophic fire at the Bangabazar Shopping Complex was brought under control at 12:36pm today, shop owners and employees were seen desperately going through the smouldering ruins to salvage whatever they could.