With Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of Hindu devotees, on the horizon, Old Dhaka's Shankhari Bazar is bustling with the hubbub of shoppers.

Sewage line and water pipe installation work has been underway at French Road in Old Dhaka’s Naya Bazar for a long time. As the middle of the road is dug up, traffic is not able to move through the ar ...