In a first, the government yesterday fixed the prices of eggs, onions and potatoes in its bid to contain the runaway food inflation, which hit a 12-year-high last month.

Opposition MPs came down hard on Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday for what they said was his failure to control the prices of essentials and take action against the market syndicates.

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.

Bangladesh Competition Commission yesterday lodges complaints against 10 poultry firms and poultry-related organisations for manipulating the egg market in collusion with each other to send egg prices skyrocketing.

Planning Minister MA Mannan yesterday assured the nation that the overall inflation would come down soon.

Denmark and Bangladesh today signed an agreement to collaborate on food safety and sustainable food production

Dishonest traders pocketed crores of taka within a week by sending the egg price to an unprecedented level on the pretext of low production, inclement weather, and supply chain disruptions, said the chief of consumer rights watchdog.

The state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) is set to start selling essential commodities at subsidised prices today for the month of August.

Although the prices of some daily commodities have decreased, middle- and low-income families are still struggling to make ends meet due to the recent hike in prices of essential grocery items such as eggs, chicken, onions, and potatoes.

It should have been a busy, festive time for the fishermen in Cox’s Bazar after the 65-day ban on fishing

The Hunger Project (THP) will work to mitigate undernutrition in women and children under five, across 32 unions of five upazilas under Naogan, Mymensingh, Bagerhat and Khulna

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today placed a five-point proposal at the UN Food Systems Summit to ensure a sustainable, safe and nutritious food system worldwide

With rafts and nets for catching fish, Hilsha hunters will start netting from early tomorrow in the Bay of Bengal and its adjoining rivers, near the Sundarbans after the 65-day ban on fishing in the rivers and the sea across the country

The rising prices of essential commodities are making life increasingly difficult for people, especially those from low- to middle-income groups.

Asian rice trade paused on Friday to digest the previous day's ban by India, by far the world's biggest supplier, of a major share of its exports of the staple, with prices expected to climb substantially in coming days, three traders said.

Vegetable prices have been rising at the capital’s kitchen markets for about a month, making it even harder for low-income people to afford a balanced diet.

The “Production, Storage, Transfer, Transportation, Supply, Distribution and Marketing of Food Products (Prevention of Prejudicial Activity) Bill, 2023” with a provision of maximum lifetime imprisonment for illegal hoarding of foodstuff was passed in Parliament yesterday

Several wholesalers and individual businessmen in Manikganj, Faridpur, Pabna and Narayanganj were fined yesterday for selling green chillies at inflated prices.

About 93 tonnes of green chillies arrived in the country within a week after Bangladesh allowed the import of the kitchen essential due to skyrocketing prices, according to a notification from the Ministry of Agriculture

The commerce minister’s recent admission that stern measures against market manipulators could create a sudden crisis has exposed the helplessness and lack of political will of the government, said three top economists and a consumers' body.