cooking gas crisis in bangladesh
How the gas crisis is disrupting everyday life
Navigate the severe gas crisis crippling households, eateries, and transport. Low pipeline pressure and damaged terminals force families like Shirine Zaman's to cook at midnight, while CNG drivers face long queues and inflated fares.
11 August 2026
Restaurant kitchens struggle to absorb double LPG shock
The price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has risen twice in less than three weeks, piling pressure on restaurants already dealing with red-hot prices of rice, chicken and beef.
21 April 2026
Consumers weighed down by runaway LPG prices
LPG users are not getting cylinders at the government-set rate anywhere in the capital despite a record 29 percent hike by the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) amid the US-Israel war on Iran.
9 April 2026
Uninterrupted gas supply at least two years away
People of Bangladesh, who are experiencing the lowest gas supply since April 2020, will have to wait at least two more years to get uninterrupted supply
16 January 2024