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.
Heated arguments and brawls between the shopkeepers of New Market area and Dhaka College students are nothing new. Over the years, the city dwellers suffered their share when both the parties locked into running battles and violent clashes most of the time over trivial matters.
This newspaper has talked to at least 20 shopkeepers and Dhaka College students, who identified the youth in the dark blue T-shirt as 19-year-old Nahid Mia, a delivery man of a computer accessories shop, named Data Tech Computers, on Elephant Road.
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