When one enters the building of Sharif Market on Chittaranjan Avenue in Sadarghat, there is a feeling of suffocation, despite the empty spaces between the eight-storey building. The building has been identified as risky in terms of fire safety. However, it only has nine fire extinguishers.
The massive fire that broke out at the capital's New Super Market, adjacent to Dhaka College, around 5:40am on Saturday morning (15 April) has been completely doused. The Fire Service and Civil Defence were able to extinguish the blaze, that devastated the three-storey building housing some 1,300 shops, at around 9am on Sunday (16 April) – some 27 hours after the fire had
The limited-income people in Bangladesh have been forced to tighten their belts because of the cost-of-living crisis, driven by escalated prices of essential commodities and a hike in transport costs, both fallout of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Retailers in Bangladesh are feeling the pinch as consumers have been buying less for the last few months because of the continuous increase in the prices of daily necessities and growing uncertainty.