Calls for fair prices during Ramadan

41 Bangladeshi companies are participating among 5,500 exhibitors from over 129 countries

The poverty situation in Bangladesh was higher than expected in 2020-21 as the COVID constrained economic activity and reduced incomes. The situation worsened further amid spirals in global food prices in 2022. And the global economic slowdown could push more people into poverty this year.  

India has extended the ban on the exports of onion till March next year with a view to increasing availability in domestic markets and to keep prices in check, according to a notification issued by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade yesterday. 

Refiners in Bangladesh today cut the price of soybean oil by Tk 5 and palm oil by Tk 4 a litre after edible oil prices declined in the international market.

Local biscuits manufacturing giant Olympic Industries today said its profit jumped 42 per cent in the first three quarters of the current financial year of 2022-23, powered by increased sales revenue.

The price of broiler chicken has started falling at the retail level in Bangladesh as four major poultry companies are now selling the meat for a maximum of Tk 195 per kg directly from their farms

The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) has said that there is no evidence of Sultan's Dine restaurant using the meat of other animals instead of mutton in their Kachchi biryani

The Directorate of National Consumers Right Protection (DNCRP) today fined 82 traders Tk 4.94 lakh across the country for their failure to protect consumers’ rights.

Several lawmakers of the treasury and opposition bench yesterday demanded that the Speaker summon TIB officials immediately to the House to question them for the organisation's “derogatory remarks” on parliament. Speaking on a point of order in the House, Awami League Lawmaker Suranjit Sengupta insisted that the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has to apologise before the nation within three days.