The apex trade body earlier promised giving the donation
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has allocated Tk 9 crore as Eid gift for the shop employees, traders and owners at the capital’s Bangabazar, who were affected by a massive fire on April 4.
Affected traders of Bangabazar yesterday started their business by setting up makeshift shops.
The fire at Bangabazar Shopping Complex and adjacent markets burnt down 3,845 shops and caused an estimated loss of Tk 303 crore, said the probe committee of Dhaka South City Corporation.
Shop owners of Bangabazar Shopping Complex, which was burnt to the ground last week, can start their business in makeshift shops from tomorrow, said the authorities.
Investigators of Dhaka South City Corporation suspect a burning cigarette or a mosquito repellent coil caused the devastating fire at Bangabazar Shopping Complex in the capital.
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh today said that the shops at Bangabazar Shopping Complex may start makeshift operations from Wednesday as the cleaning work at the charred premises will be completed tomorrow..The mayor said this following a meeting with th
Hijra communities today donated Tk 20 lakh, raised from their members across the country, to the traders of Bangabazar Shopping Complex which was burnt to ashes in a massive fire last week.
Bangabazar shop owners are looking forward to today’s meeting between their association and the city corporation in which decisions will be made about how the shop owners will run their businesses in a makeshift arrangement before Eid.
Smoke rises from burnt market on fifth day
The shop owners' association of Bangabazar did not take any action despite notices being served as many as 10 times about the fire risk there, State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Enamur Rahman told the parliament today
Three people were arrested today in a case filed over Tuesday's attack on the Fire Service and Civil Defence Headquarters during the Bangabazar fire in the capital on Tuesday
Cleaning operations at Bangabazar and its adjacent markets, which were devastated by a massive fire on Tuesday, will begin tomorrow, Prime Minister's Private Industries and Investment Adviser Salman F Rahman said today.
"The shops' owners and staffers, who lost their trade licences, bank cheques and credit or debit cards, birth registration certificates and NID cards or any other essential documents in the fire, can file the GD with the help of Shahbagh police at the booth from now"
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.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today alleged that Bangabazar Market fire has exposed the irresponsibility of the current government and the failure of its different agencies to take prompt steps to douse the blaze
The affected traders of the Bangabazar fire incident have sought interest-free loans to survive in the business and for repayment of their bank liabilities
