Wahed Mansion in Old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar has been repainted, plastered, and restored to its former state. The owners have moved on, and it seems the country has too.

We seem to have learnt nothing from past chemical warehouse explosions

Many of us believe and widely practise the cliché of, “Hopefully, this shall not happen to me”.

Three years ago, after the tragic fire incident at Churihatta in Old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar, the industries ministry started building a cluster of chemical warehouses at the site of Ujala Match Factory in Shyampur, with an aim to relocate the warehouses in Old Dhaka.