Price Hike

Price Hike
Asian markets tumble further as Fed hikes rates, warns more to come

Asian markets tumble further as Fed hikes rates, warns more to come

Asian markets extended a painful Wall Street sell-off Thursday after the Federal Reserve unveiled a third straight jumbo interest rate hike, said more were in the pipeline, and warned the battle ...

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

Gas crisis

Dhaka and its neighbourhood Gas crisis hits hard kitchens, industries

Titas Gas sources said complaints are being filed from almost all areas of Dhaka while the most are coming from Mohammadpur, Mirpur, Paikpara, Rampura, Jatrabari, Old Dhaka, Kalyanpur and Uttara

Editorial

Fertiliser shortage, high price: Step up supply and surveillance

The government has set up mobile courts to curb any market manipulation or charging farmers inflated prices. But these courts would not be very helpful if the supply of fertiliser is not increased

LPG cylinders

LPG cylinder price increases by Tk 16

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

University students protest against the government following raise in subsidised fuel prices by about 30 per cent at the weekend in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 5 September, 2022.

Protests across Indonesia as anger mounts over fuel price increase

Protests took place in and around the capital, Jakarta, and in the cities of Surabaya, Makassar, Kendari, Aceh, and Yogyakarta

Price of diesel has been hiked by a huge margin in Bangladesh recently

PM’s visit to India India seeks to export refined diesel to Bangladesh

An announcement regarding India's exporting refined diesel to Bangladesh could come after the summit meeting of the prime ministers of the two countries, said a Bangladeshi official involved with the ...

In this file photo taken on 30 August, 2022 facilities to receive and distribute natural gas are pictured on the grounds of gas transport and pipeline network operator Gascade in Lubmin, northeastern Germany, close to the border with Poland - the industrial infrastructure includes a receiving and distribution station for the Nord Stream 1 pipeline and is also the place

Energy war West caps Russian oil price, Moscow keeps gas pipe shut

Moscow has blamed sanctions, imposed by the West after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, for hampering routine operations and maintenance of Nord Stream 1. Brussels and Washington accuse Russia of using ...

Commerce minister Tipu Munshi

Prices of essentials are tolerable: Tipu Munshi

A number of steps have been taken to keep the price of daily essential commodities within the reach of the consumers

People crowd in front of the Trade Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) truck to buy the essential commodities at fair prices. The picture was taken from Hatirpul area in Dhaka on 16 March.

Nationwide OMS, food friendly programme start

'Food Friendly Programme (FFP)' and sale of rice at Tk 30 per kg under the open market sale (OMS) for low-income people began across the country

Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury

It would have been better to keep fuel oil price high: Energy advisor

Prime minister's power, energy and mineral resources adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury on Wednesday said it is very difficult to estimate the global oil price

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

Editorial

Will reducing fuel oil price benefit people at all?

There is no justification for a reduction of Tk 5. It could be at least Tk 10. Transport owners will not reduce fares. The extra money will go into the traders' pockets. There will be no political ...

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina addresses a discussion Dhaka South City Awami League and Dhaka North City Awami League jointly organised at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC), Dhaka, marking the National Mourning Day and 47th martyrdom anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 30 August 2022

It’s not possible to show more compassion to Khaleda Zia: PM Hasina

Time and again they wanted to kill me. Even then I show compassion (to Khaleda Zia), said prime minister Sheikh Hasina at a discussion at BICC, Dhaka, marking the National Mourning Day and 47th ...

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 ...

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