Are you planning to shift your home or office to a new location but worried about the associated hard work, risk, and mess of packing, moving, and shifting? Don’t worry! Several companies are offering home and office shifting services in Dhaka. Read this article to know about some of these companies and pick the one that suits your necessity most.

Top 7 Residential and Corporate Moving Services in Dhaka

Sheba

Starting the journey from September 2015, Sheba has gained a reputation as a service platform. This company delivers a variety of essential services including ‘home and office shifting’. Under this category, packing, moving, and storage services can be availed by bachelors, families, and commercial entities.

Diverse goods, including furniture, electric appliances, household goods, and other things are safely transported by pickups or covered vans. You can purchase the required packaging boxes from Sheba. Sheba assures that verified well-trained professionals – maintaining dress codes – are utilized for packaging, loading, unloading, and moving operations. Moreover, during the service period, an electrician would be available for fixing the electric connections.

After a visual survey of the goods, Sheba provides an estimated cost. The bill can be paid through cash, money orders, credit cards, or EMI. What is more? This company also offers a free consultancy service regarding home shifting which can be a great relief for many citizens. Sheba’s services are currently available in several locations of Dhaka and Chattogram cities. Find Sheba Home and Shifting service at https://www.sheba.xyz/house-shifting-service

Pack & Shift

For the last five years, “Pack and Shift” has been working as a full-fledged residential and corporate moving company in the domestic and international sector. This company offers versatile services including, office shifting, house shifting, international movers and packers, furniture shifting, packing and unpacking service, loading, and unloading, machinery handling, electric electronics re-setting, project/event move, furniture re-fitting, etc. Besides, you can take some additional services, such as renovation, handyman, fixing, etc.

These services are available in Dhaka, Chattogram, Rangpur, Dinajpur, Bogura, Rajshahi, Kushtia, Jashore, Khulna, Barishal, Sylhet, Narayanganj, Cumilla, Mymensingh, and Cox’s Bazar, among other places.

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But what if you need to relocate your office beyond the border? Don’t worry! The moving and shifting services of “Pack and Shift” are available in international locations including America, Canada, UK, Australia, Italy, UAE, China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and India among others. Especially residential, commercial, and industrial heavy equipment moving services are available in all provinces of India.

This company also sells necessary items required for packaging, like masking tapes, cartons, bubble wraps, raping newspapers, foam papers, stretch film wraps, corrugated papers, etc. Find the ‘Pack and Shift’ services at https://www.packnshift.com/

Basha Bodol

If you are looking for an experienced company for shifting your home or office, consider BasaBodol.com. For more than 15 years, this company is offering its packing and moving services within and beyond the geographic boundary of the country. Like the other shifting companies, here you get transport facilities through truck or pickup. Let’s have a look at the cost of shifting goods within Dhaka City.

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Table: Cost of Residential Moving Service in Dhaka

Sl. No	Type of Transport (With Labour)	Amount (in Taka)
01.	1.5 tons pickup (Dhaka city)	7,000-8000/-
02.	2 tons pickup (Dhaka city)	7,5,00-8,500/-
03.	3 tons pickup (Dhaka city)	9,00-10,000/-
04.	3 tons cover van (Dhaka city)	12,000-14,000/-
05.	5 tons Covered van (Dhaka city)	17,000-19,000/-
06.	AIR CONDITION: Window / Spleet type (Open-fittings)	2,000/ and 3,500/-
07.	Ceiling Fan (Open-fittings) Per Fan	300/-
08.	Gas Charge split	3000/-
09.	IPS Open-fitting	2,500/-
10.	LCD TV (Open-fitting at Wall)	3,000/-
11.	Tube Light Set Open fitting	300/-
12.	Gezer(Open fitting)	3,500/-
13.	Piano moving Charge(with transport)	10,000/-

You can take these services from https://basabodol.com/

Rajdhani Movers

Though started in 2005, Rajdhani Movers germinated as an independent mover company five years ago. This company is providing a full range of packing and shifting services, including house shifting, office shifting, and packaging.

Their shifting services include packing, transportation, and unpacking. Here customized boxes are available that can facilitate efficient and safe packaging of goods, especially IT equipment and electronic appliances.

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What is more? Thinking out of the box, this company offers a luxury shuttle service that takes the goods directly from the client’s home/office to the truck. This opportunity is a windfall when you have a narrow entrance. Besides these, Rajdhani Movers can arrange some additional third-party services such as home/office decoration, house/office cleaning, electrical connections, plumbing, etc.

Navigate to these services at https://www.rajdhanimovers.com/

Bengal Movers

The well-organized services by ‘Bengal Movers’ will keep you enthralled. This company offers a plethora of moving and packing options. For instance, their expert team packs the client’s entire home/office belongings under the ‘Full-Service Packing’ option. While the ‘Fragile Packing’ options cover packing of the valuable breakable items. And, ‘Do It Yourself’ allows the client to pack all their belongings by themselves. However, ‘Bengal Movers’ can assist the client in packing by supplying the necessary packaging materials.

Their ‘Household Moving Services’ include loading, transportation, and unloading. ‘Bengal Movers’ assures of maintenance of inventory and labeling of goods before moving. Furthermore, the movers apply durable stretch wraps to prevent any kind of damage to the goods while shifting. The company also promises safe transportation through licensed drivers and careful unloading of goods after reaching the new destination.

If you lack manpower for packing, unpacking, assembling, or dissembling, ‘Bengal Movers’ is ready to help. Besides the basic house moving services, the company provides some advanced services like unpacking service, and assemble/disassemble. Their professionals can safely unpack your goods and place them at your chosen locations.

Moreover, you can safely relocate and re-install the valuable furniture and electronic appliances like air conditioners, freeze, LCD/led TVs, geysers, lights, and Fans – by the trained technicians of ‘Bengal Movers’. Check out these services at https://www.bengalmovers.com/service/house-shifting-services/

Dhaka Movers

Dhaka Movers is another reputed company who offers packer and mover services in Dhaka city. Here you will get customized boxes for packing different kinds of goods. Before moving, their trained professionals put labels and apply double packing to prevent breakage of fragile items. Your belongings would be safely transported by their trucks. Besides these, Dhaka Movers offer some exclusive services.

If you are on the search for a reliable Car Transportation Service in Dhaka, contact ‘Dhaka Movers’.
This company has technical loading tools, licensed vehicle carriers, and professional drivers to transport your car or motorbike to the desired location within Bangladesh. Their tracking policy will show you the current location of the moving vehicles during the transportation period.

Are you worried about the safe transportation of your adorable pets while shifting your home? ‘Dhaka Movers’ can solve your problem. This company assures the safe transportation of pets through air-conditioned vehicles with due responsibility, care, and patience. They also promise to maintain the required diets, medications, and vaccinations of the pets during the service period. Not many companies offer such an organized pet moving service in Dhaka.

Click on the following link to know more about these services http://www.dhakamovers.com/service/packers-and-movers/

Dorkary

Do you want to hire a packing and moving services, who are available anytime or any day of the week? For emergency shifting, ‘Dorkary’ offers packing, moving, and shifting services 24X7. Certainly, it is a great facility for the busy people and entities of Dhaka city.

With more than 12 years of experience in the sector of home and office shifting, Dorkary offers a wide variety of services, such as house shifting services, office shifting services, inter-district moves, international moves, ‘movers and packers’, etc. Utilizing their services, you can send your goods to any desired location within Dhaka, or other cities. Moving service is also provided within the same building from one floor to another.

Click on the following link to know more about these services. https://www.dorkary.com/

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Shakrain – a celebration of kites and lights – is one of the oldest festivals of Bangladesh. It starts with kite flying and ends with unity and friendship.

The festival is an annual celebration in Dhaka which marks the end of the ninth month of Bengali calendar – Poush. The day is also known as Poush Sankranti and Shakrain or Ghuri Utshob.

Shakrain is celebrated mostly in the southern part of Dhaka city where colourful kites fill the sky. 

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Thousands of people get on their rooftops to sing, dance and fly kites of different colours and shapes. They also have kite fights with their neighbours.

And when the winter sun starts setting, parties and fireworks take over the festivities. Music awakens the whole town and flamboyant groups arrange daylong programmes, including concerts and parties.

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Flame-eaters and fire-spinners gather on rooftops to entertain people with their skills.

A UNB Photojournalist captured the colours and lights of Shakrain at Old Dhaka on Thursday.

People of Old Dhaka fly kites from the roof of their apartment complexes to celebrate Shakrain.

Youths climb to their rooftops to sing and dance.

Flame-eaters entertain people with their skills.

Dazzling light shows brighten Old Dhaka’s night sky.

It was a visual delight when several renowned theatre personalities and artists launched a day-long cleanliness campaign in Dhaka on Wednesday by sweeping the Central Shaheed Minar area with a broom in hand.

"As one of the most prominent and remarkable monuments in Bangladesh, which was at the centre-front of our glorious Language Movement in 1952, Central Shaheed Minar reminds us of our love and sacrifice for our mother tongue. The monument should be kept clean all the time," said Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) chief Liaquat Ali Lucky, inaugurating the event.

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"Besides Dhaka, we are holding similar programmes in all the districts with the help of local Shilpakala Academy branches and artistes," said Liaquat Ali, also the founder of the People’s Theatre Association (PTA) that had jointly organised the day-long cleanliness campaign, a cultural event and an art camp at the Central Shaheed Minar with BSA.

On the Academy’s upcoming events marking the International Mother Language Day, Lucky said, "BSA will organise a programme at the Central Saheed Minar every month from now on, and we will arrange a light and sound show at the monument in February aimed at portraying the history of the country's language movement."

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Jamal Ahmed, Biren Shome, Fazlur Rahman Bhutan, Syeda Mahbuba Karim Mini, Shahjahan Ahmed Bikash, Kiriti Ranjan Biswas, Karu Titas, Farzana Islam Milki, Farhana Afroz Bappi, Kabir Ahmed Masum Chisti, Farzana Ahmed Urmi, Rashed Sukhon, Sujon Mahbub and Nur Munjerin Rimjhim participated at the art camp and created artworks depicting the language movement and International Mother Language Day.

At the art camp, veteran artist Biren Shome made a painting depicting people placing floral wreaths at the Central Shaheed Minar with three birds in flight in the background. Jamal Ahmed created a work depicting founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Syeda Mahbuba Karim Mini made a painting portraying the language movement, showing revolutionaries holding rallies with placards demanding Bangla as the state language in 1952.

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Artistes from BSA also presented enthralling cultural performances, while Bangladesh Shishu Acrobatic Dol entertained the audience by performing a stunning display of balance and tricks.

At the event, Shamima Chowdhury Alis recited poems on the language movement, followed by BSA Baul troupe's presentation of folk songs. Child artistes of the Academy presented a production, titled ‘Jonmo Shoto Borshe Jatir Pita', comprising songs and dance, written and directed by Liaquat Ali Lucky.

 

Sustainability has never been under the spotlight as much as it has been in the last few years. With the epidemic slowing global movement dramatically, CO2 emissions are dropping due to flight cancelations and lockdown in many parts of the world, while many coal and oil mining projects have been delayed or halted altogether. Arguably for the time ever, seeing transparent progress in eco-conversation has become apparent. With large organizations taking advantage of the situation of making the world a greener place, the common man can follow suit that can establish the same impact, if not more. Living eco-friendly in Dhaka can be a little tricky at first, but once accustomed, these changes will definitely have a lasting impact.

How to live eco-friendly in Dhaka

Bringing Tupperwares and Cups Outside

Recycling has always been used when sustainability-oriented organizations try to drive home the necessity to act, and it’s hard to avoid it when we want to make simple, yet effective changes. More and more consumers are following the trend of bringing their own Tupperware and cups when going out for a coffee or grabbing takeaway from a restaurant. It’s surprising how much waste is accredited to discarded styrofoam packets and plastic cups, which is why a small act like this can make a whole world of difference. 

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Granted, lugging around plastic cups and Tupperware has the hindrance of filling up your bag “needlessly” and worrying about washing more dishes when getting home could deter the masses from adopting this lifestyle, but the reduction of waste will make a whopping difference. In addition, using reusable plastic bottles or flasks are more common eco-friendly alternatives, while brands like Starbucks are beginning to see success by incentivizing metal straws. 

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Bringing Your Own Grocery Bag

Many countries are realizing the dangers of disposing of plastic bags on such a colossal scale that 76 of them have banned the mass distribution of them altogether. Bangladesh has the honor of being the first country to implement this order in 2002. Living in a country that saw the urgency of environmental conservations before others, keeping the vision alive in 2021 is encouraged. As a waste, plastic bags have been tracked as one of the most prominent ecological hazards that contribute to water pollution and a direct threat to animal life. 

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Bringing your own cotton or Jute bag ensures a far better make, can double as a fashion statement on top of supporting a noble cause. Organic groceries can be troublesome to wash out of some reusable materials, but it is well worth the effort for better quality bags that are far more lasting. Buying more reusable bags for heavier grocery shopping sprees are important to consider as doing so will mitigate the need to use plastic bags period. 

Saving Water & Electricity

The consequences of wasting electricity are more severe than people assume. Greenhouse gas emissions and carbon emissions are in play when flammable sedimentary is crushed and heated to form electricity. Wastage doesn’t seem so bad when leaving the lights on accidentally overnight or leaving the air conditioner on with an open window, but micro oversight tends to add up and contributes to unnecessary pollution. Water waste poses a different set of problems. Much like electricity, draining the resource of drinkable water doesn’t seem like much initially, but collectively can usher great consequences. 

Thankfully, there is little need to go out of your way to stay savvy with your water and electricity. Using LED light bulbs, swap to energy-efficient air conditioners, use eco-friendly water heaters, and minimizing the use of dishwashing machines are all simple ways to stay ahead of conservation without taking up additional time or effort. Turning the water off when rinsing in the soap during a shower or turning the tap off when rinsing dishes with soap are small ways to make a difference that can become a habit when practiced enough. 

It’s 2021 and the epidemic doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon. Despite heightened security and prompt responses in many parts of the world, the future remains uncertain and another lockdown could be imminent at any time. Unlike the first wave, everyone is better prepared; which means that picking up a new hobby during prolonged isolation could be the perfect opportunity to turn a grim situation into a productive one that we’d never have the time for otherwise. Here are a few hobbies to pick up if you find yourself back into quarantine. 

Baking

Surprisingly baking has been taking the world by storm recently, especially among millennials. Being deprived from outside food during a confinement period can make any foodie go crazy- which is just the void that baking fills. Much like cooking, baking is an expression of one’s creativity and even character based on the dishes chosen. Your ingredient pool is reasonably sized and an oven will pretty much be the main tool you’ll be using. Sourdough bread, cookies and brownies are existing staples that can never go wrong if you decide to share your talents with loved ones. Many consider the hobby therapeutic, and maybe the ideal option to find your center in the midst of the current global situation. 

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(Dish) Gardening

Another hobby that seems to be picking up traction. Botany is best suited for the calm soul that is keen to nurture and literally bear fruits after months of “labour”. You don’t necessarily need a fancy garden to get started - dish gardening is more than enough to begin. In the dish, you’d naturally need the basic necessities of soil, sunlight and water; depending on the plant type of course and based completely on what your local plant store recommends. Dish gardening usually doubles as a decor piece for your living space and can be filled with colorful stones and figurines. Ultimately, committing to this hobby bears the responsibility of nurturing life; and if you are looking for a meaningful hobby - this should be on the top of your list. 

Audio Production

This hobby may seem a little ambiguous at first, but it allows you to truly venture into many specialities with little to no effort. Music creation, podcast recording or even remixing fall under the description that caters to many different kinds of talents. Having strengths in storytelling or an aptitude for rhythm can converge online, using applications such as Audio Concepts and Garage Band respectively. The sky’s the limit with this hobby and can be shared privately if you are too shy to post any of your creations online. If doing this alone seems challenging, podcasting and storytelling can easily be done with a couple of friends and family virtually without having to leave the house. The only foreseeable barrier that could prevent some from trying audio production out is paying for some, more advanced sound software and having access to a quality microphone set. 

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