But the record high price of gold has been more of a curse than a blessing for Tanti Bazaar.

The street is called Tanti Bazaar, and it is the centre of Dhaka's gold market.

The deal will see Tanti's holding shrink to 24 percent, but management control will still remain with the Tanti family.

At Tanti Bazaar, thousands of goldsmiths like Paran work in tiny, dingy workshops.

A former Railmotor Stopping Place platform is situated across the road from Tanti Park.

Hyloxalus whymperi, sometimes known as the Tanti rocket frog, is a species of frog in the Dendrobatidae family.

Tanti: From ancient times only persons from the Tanti caste worked on the loom .

The growing demand for fabrics and their increasing prices, encouraged a few Tanti families to introduce weaving commercially and they started weaving factories engaging hired wage weavers.

Malakar, who is the president of the 25,000-member Bangladesh Goldmiths Association, said that over the last year, the small jewellery factories at Tanti Bazaar had slashed many jobs.

Suzlon Green Power, a closely held enterprise owned 100 percent by India's Tanti family, made the announcement today at the 2008 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).

When he started the Adi Kartick Roy Poddar Pawnshop four decades ago there were only a few pawnshops in Tanti Bazaar, but now they are everywhere.

Arcapita and Colossus, a holding company of India's Tanti Group, acquired Honiton Energy Holdings Plc, Arcapita said.

Lespinasse led the "very expensive" category; One if by Land, Two if by Sea, expensive; Savoy, moderate, and Tanti Baci Cafe, inexpensive.

Although the weaving industry of Sualkuchi remained almost confined within the Tanti Community of Tantipara up-to the 1930, later people belonging to other communities also started to take up silk weaving gradually.

At the Tanti Bazaar today, the only businesses that are thriving are the pawn shops, as people hard hit by the impact of the global recession come to mortgage their beloved jewels for some much needed cash.

However, with the planned redevelopment of the Moorooduc Coolstores property, 3RPP has committed to relocate to a new broadcast studio location back to Mornington at newly renovated community facility at Tanti Park.

Malakar, who started his career as a goldsmith in Tanti Bazaar in the 1960s, said jewellery sales have fallen over 50 percent in the last year, forcing hundreds of artisans to close their shops or run their business at a loss.