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A filling station in Chattogram attaches the freshly imposed price of fuel oil per litre with its pump. The picture was taken from the AK Khan area on 5 November.

Bangladesh unable to refine Russian crude oil: Report

The country is not well equipped to refine the crude oil of Russia, says a report of the country's lone oil refinery, Eastern Refinery Limited (ERL)

A woman walks at a market in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, Lebanon on 6 September, 2022

Further global economic slowdown in third quarter, predicts IMF

The IMF in July revised down global growth to 3.2 per cent in 2022 and 2.9 per cent in 2023. It will release a new outlook next month

Govt set to buy rice at price higher than Int'l market

Govt set to buy rice at price higher than Int'l market

In the wake of crisis as the target of production of boro, aus and aman has not been fulfilled, the government has planned to purchase rice at a price higher than the international market

LPG cylinders

LPG cylinder price increases by Tk 16

BERC acting chairman ABM Faruq announced the new price through virtual platform, Zoom

Mostafa Kamal

Fixing prices of 9 items Accurate estimate of expenditure needs to be considered

The government can fix prices of essentials if it wants. For this, an accurate estimate of expenditure of commodities of all phases from import to processing has to be taken into consideration. If ...

Professor Mustafizur Rahman

Fixing prices of 9 items may yield temporary result

I don’t want to see this step of the commerce ministry negatively. The product is marked with maximum retail price (MRP) in many countries of the world

Parliament building

Govt’s wrong policy, mismanagement at root of present crisis: Oppositions

Nasrul Hamid labeled the opposition parliamentarians as people with ‘gold-fish memory’ and said they forgot everything and are playing the same broken record

A man with a bottle of soybean oil at a grocery shop

Govt to fix prices of oil, rice, lentil and 6 others

The government will set the reasonable prices of nine products, including rice, flour, wheat flour, edible oil, sugar, lentils, cement and rods, by next 15 days in a bid to bring stability in the ...

Fuel oil prices reduced by Tk 5 per litre

Fuel oil prices reduced by Tk 5 per litre

The government has decided to decrease the prices of diesel, petrol and octane by Tk 5 per litre

A man with a bottle of soybean oil at a grocery shop

Bottled soybean oil price increases by Tk 7 per litre

The price of bottled soybean oil has been increased by Tk 7 per litre, said Bangladesh Vegetable Oil Refiners & Vanaspati Manufacturers Association

Photo shows a woman wearing a gold ornament.

Gold price up by Tk 1,225 per bhori

Bangladesh Jewellers Samity (BAJUS) announced to raise the price of gold once again by maximum Tk 1,225 a bhori.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

Govt mulls further measures to control price of essentials: PM Hasina

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government mulls further steps to bring down prices of daily essentials to keep them at a tolerable level of the ordinary consumers

People struggle to survive, cut expenses

Life at divisional citites People struggle to survive, cut expenses

The low-income people had earlier reduced buying fish, meat and are now cutting other expenses

Tk 10 rice a kg to be sold at Tk 15 a kg from 1 Sep

Tk 10 rice a kg to be sold at Tk 15 a kg from 1 Sep

The sale of rice under the food-friendly programme will start in the open market on 1 September

Editorial

TCB family card: Where is transparency and accountability?

The findings of a recent study by the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), conducted on TCB family card are very worrying

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