Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given directives to take immediate action against rice hoarders.

At west London's Hooked Fish and Chips, Mr Bally Singh is struggling to keep the tills ringing for a British tradition, with prices skyrocketing for fish, potatoes, cooking oil and even the flour used for the batter the dish is cooked in.

More than 11 years ago, the government issued an order for the trade of essential commodities, aimed at controlling their prices and curbing price manipulation by unscrupulous businesses through hoarding and other unfair means.

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.

The prices of fine rice have gone up in the capital’s wholesale and retail markets, aggravating the suffering of the people from middle-income families who are already struggling to meet their household expenses due to spiraling prices of essentials, including edible oil and lentil.

The country will not face a food shortage and India’s restriction on wheat export will not affect Bangladesh, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder said today.

A 12-week vegan diet may result in clinically meaningful weight loss and improve blood sugar control in overweight adults and those with type 2 diabetes, according to a meta-analysis of 11 randomised trials involving almost 800 participants (aged 18 or older).

Formula milk companies pay social media platforms and influencers to directly access pregnant women and new mothers. The $55 billion worldwide formula milk market targets new mothers with targeted social media material often not recognised as advertising.

A mobile court in Patuakhali fined three traders Tk 61,000 on charges of illegally stocking soybean oil and other irregularities in Bauphal upazila of the district today (May 14, 2022).

During a raid this afternoon, Ullapara upazila administration in Sirajganj seized 26,000 litres of illegally stored edible oil. For hoarding the oil, two traders were fined Tk 1 lakh.

Amid the struggle to cope with the record hike in edible oil prices, a fresh surge in prices of other daily essentials has dealt a further blow to those with low incomes.

The ongoing drive against illegal hoarding of edible oil continued in the country yesterday with another 3,400 litres of oil seized in two districts and hoarders fined Tk1.60 lakh.

A trader was fined Tk 1 lakh for illegal stocking of soybean oil in his store at Manikganj today (May 13, 2022).

The seizure of hundreds of thousands of litres of hoarded edible oil in the last one week has proved the claim that unscrupulous traders created the crisis to be able to sell cooking oil at higher prices.

A mobile court in Pabna yesterday (May 11, 2022) seized 104,000 litres of soyabean oil from different grocery shops in the district.

Jubilant FoodWorks, the master franchisee of Domino's Pizza in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, has fully acquired Jubilant Golden Harvest Ltd, the franchisee of Domino’s Pizza in Bangladesh.

An annoyed Shovon Das was walking home with a five-litre bottle of soybean oil from Shaheb Bazar in Rajshahi city yesterday afternoon. He had paid Tk 985 for it even though the government set the price at Tk 760.

Police in a raid seized 92,616 litres of edible oil illegally stored at four warehouses and a truck at Baneshwar Bazar of Rajshahi's Puthia upazila today (May 10, 2022).

With the government still struggling to bring stability to the volatile edible oil market, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday said it was a mistake on his part to trust the businesspeople as they hoarded edible oil and hiked prices abnormally after the Eid-ul-Fitr.

Police in a raid seized 20,400 litres of edible oil illegally stored at a warehouse at Taherpur Bazar of Rajshahi's Bagmara upazila this evening.