It’s a typical price pattern -- every year, as Ramadan approaches, the cost of essential commodities climbs, sometimes sharply. And 2025 is no exception.
Long-term cost hikes hurt energy sector; BERC lost neutrality, harming consumers.
“Steps taken by the government so far failed to bring down prices of essential commodities,” said CPD Executive Director Fahmida Khatun
For many students on a tight budget, meals become purely practical, devoid of any consideration for nutrition or quality.
The government plans to sell some vegetables at subsidised prices for the low-income groups as part of a pilot project in the capital.
Harunur Rashid, a retired government employee, was taken aback by the steep price rise of okra at the capital’s Karwan Bazar yesterday.
The prices of rice, eggs, broiler chicken, soybean oil, palm oil, sugar and vegetables have increased significantly in Dhaka due to a supply shortage and incessant rain.
The prices of vegetables, chicken, and eggs have risen again in the capital’s kitchen markets after remaining almost stable for about a month.
Fatima Khatun, dressed in a washed-out kameez, came to Muslim Bazar in Mirpur 12 to shop with her four-year-old son on August 16.
Realtors today said the cost of various raw materials, including rod and lift, will increase in the next fiscal year because of the increase in value added tax and customs tariff.
Prices of essentials are rising, and most worryingly, the price of rice is completely uncontrolled in the domestic market. Despite this being peak season and sufficient paddy supply, rice prices rose by Tk 8 to 10 per kg in the last two weeks.
Price hikes despite the high yield of Boro rice totally unacceptable
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given directives to take immediate action against rice hoarders.
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.
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.
The Bangladesh Vegetable Oil Refiners & Vanaspati Manufacturers Association today said it will take action against the dealers if their involvement is found in creating an edible oil crisis.
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will resume selling edible oil at Tk 110 a litre to one crore TCB cardholder families in June, Senior Commerce Secretary Tapan Kanti Ghosh said today.
Govt must open eyes to consumers' unending sufferings
A banker in Naogaon did not find soybean oil in the local market. A woman in Natore was lucky to score a one-litre bottle for an unusually higher price. A private firm employee in Chattogram decided to make do with mustard oil after failing to find soybean oil in her neighborhood.
