The government raised the prices of kerosene and diesel by Tk 15 a litre to Tk 80 on November 4. And at the same time it has increased the price of 12-kg cylinder of LP gas by Tk 54 to Tk 1,313. The prices have been hiked at a time when the general mass have been struggling to recover from the pandemic induced economic downfall. In today's Star Connects, Khondoker Md Shoyeb along with M Tamim, professor of the petroleum engineering department and dean of engineering of Buet, and Dr Khondaker Golam Moazzem, research director of CPD, tries to find out why the government has to increase the prices of kerosene and diesel and what could be done other than rising the prices now.