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A private waste collection vehicle in Banani Model Town. Current (2012) waste generation in Bangladesh is around 22.4 million tonnes per year or 150 kg/cap/year. [3] There is an increasing rate of waste generation in Bangladesh and it is projected to reach 47, 064 tonnes per day by 2025.
On 18 October 2012, Bikroy was formally launched in a press conference held in Bangladesh's capital city Dhaka but had begun operations in June earlier that year. [3] In November 2012, Bikroy was named as the "Country's first bilingual classified website" by The Daily Star. [7] It launched its application on iOS and Android in 2015. [8]
Chowkbazar (Bengali: চকবাজার), also called Chawkbazar Model Thana, is a Thana of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was formed in August 2009 from parts of Lalbagh Thana and Kotwali Thana, and has an area of 2.07 km 2. [3] It includes the Chowk Bazaar and was the site of the February 2019 Dhaka fire.
The automotive industry in Bangladesh is the third largest in South Asia. Bangladesh has a few large car plants which assemble passenger cars from Mitsubishi and Toyota, as well as commercial vehicles from Hino and Tata. Motorcycles, auto rickshaws and the locally designed Mishuk three-wheeler are manufactured in Bangladesh.
During the 1980s, 3 more New Market blocks were constructed on the north under Dhaka City Corporation, for example, New Super Market for crockeries, Bonolata for kitchen market, Chandrima and Gausia market for varieties of items and D block for groceries, each having over thousand shops. A park inside has been converted into a mosque at first ...
Salim Rashid, professor of economics at the University of Illinois, says that Dhaka was the third city in Bangladesh to have cycle rickshaws after Mymensingh and Narayanganj. [a] [3] According to historian Mominul Haque, a clerk from the jute company Reilly Brothers brought a rickshaw to Narayanganj from Kolkata in 1940. Haque mentions that ...
Pickaboo.com is an e-commerce website headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The company was founded in 2016 and is registered under Silver Water Technologies Bangladesh Limited. Items sold by the company include electronics as well as home & kitchen appliances and gadgets. [citation needed]
Chawk Bazaar is a sprawling wholesale market area in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with hundreds of shops, market stalls and vendors. It dates to the 17th Century CE when under Mughal rule. [1] [2] The bazaar is located in the Chowkbazar Thana part of Old Dhaka. Beside the market square is Chawk Mosque, built by Shaista Khan in 1676. It is 94 feet long ...