section_path: Business
section_name: Business
paragraph_text: Business
  
  Factories owned by Beximco Group, Ha-meem Group, and Bengal Group were targets of arson attack. The headquarters of Jatiya Party were set on fire in Kakrail. In Dhaka, a showroom of Yellow, subsidiary of Beximco Group, was burned down. A textile mill was burned down in Gazipur. Zabeer International Hotel, owned by Awami League member of parliament Shahin Chakladar, was vandalized and burned to the ground. Bangladesh Air Force rescued a few people from the rooftop but 24 people died in fire. An Indonesian national was also among the dead.
  
  The Afil Jute Weaving Mills, owned by member of parliament and owner of Akij Group, Sheikh Afil Uddin, was vandalized on 18 August. The jute officials blamed Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists but this was denied by local party leaders.
  
  A business owned by the general secretary of Manikganj municipal Awami League unit, Zahidul Islam, was vandalized.
  
  In February 2025, a book stall in the Amar Ekushey Bookfair was vandalised by a group of madrasa students, who also physically assaulted the publisher on spot for selling books authored by Taslima Nasrin. A similar incident of vandalism occurred at a stall set up by the Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi in a local bookfair at Satkhira District.