Sajjad Hossain

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.

Many people from nearby markets were also seen taking their belongings out of the area, with everyone occupying the street with their possessions

The fire that broke out at Sattola slum in Mohakhali yesterday morning was doused after around three hours.

The 144-year-old water tank, locally known as “Bahadur Shah Park Panir Tanky” on Old Dhaka’s Johnson Road, was declared a historical monument in May 2020 by Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk). Despite the recognition, it has been forgotten and neglected.

Despite spending Tk 1.91 crore for installing designated poster boards to keep the metro-rail pillars free of posters, the efforts of Dhaka North City Corporation seem to be falling short.

In the heart of the crowded Dhaka, is a very special kitchen market which has been serving low-income people for decades now.

Rehana Begum was desperately looking for her sewing machines amidst the ruins of the devastating fire that destroyed nearly 50 shanties in the Kunipara slum of Tejgaon Industrial Zone in the capital on Monday night.

Tear-eyed and with a large spoon in her hand, she kept turning over rubble hoping against hope that Rehana Begum would find the machines that were the source of her family's income