Nasima Begum, in the advanced stages of pregnancy and carrying her two-year-old, was waiting for over two hours at the designated point in the capital’s Kazipara Bus Stand for a TCB truck to arrive with daily essentials.

Even though the government on Monday partially removing VAT on edible oils, consumers have yet to get any relief as traders have not reduced prices as of yesterday. 

Amid public outcry over the spiralling prices of edible oils, the government yesterday partially removed VAT on refined palm and soybean oil, but it is not likely to greatly ease the consumers’ burden.

The edible oil price has dropped to the government’s pre-fixed rate a day after the announcement of value-added tax exemption came.

The supply order, crucial for dealership of edible oils, has turned out to be a key tool being used to inflate the prices at the country’s biggest trade hub in Chattogram.

Amid soaring prices of daily essentials, the government has decided to deliver 61,000 tonnes of soybean oil, sugar, chickpea and lentil to five crore people through the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh.

No matter how hard Md Shaon, a day labourer, and his wife, a domestic help, work, their attempts fall short against the skyrocketing price to make ends meet for their family of five.

A section of traders is cashing in on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war to hike  prices of essentials that were already becoming costlier, market  insiders said.  

A crisis of edible oil, particularly soybean oil, has hit the domestic markets amid retailers and wholesalers stocking up and refiners slowing down delivery, as prices of essential commodities keep climbing in the international market.

Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission, for the first time, fixed the retail prices of liquefied petroleum gas yesterday disappointing consumers.

The prices of some essential commodities went up in the capital’s wholesale and retail markets yesterday, a day before the start of the government-imposed week-long restrictions.

A court here yesterday sentenced five siblings to life imprisonment for killing a man in Kalmakanda upazila of the district in 1998.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam expresses hopes that the Supreme Court hearing on the appeal of war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami against his death penalty will be completed by Dec 15.

A schoolgirl, abducted from Birampur upazila of the district on October 22, was rescued from Habibpur village in the upazila early

The government suspends BNP-backed Khulna City Corporation Mayor Moniruzzaman Moni as he has been charged in two violence cases.

Robbers allegedly attack 25 trawlers and abducted at least 50 fishermen in the Bay in Fareboya area, about 50-kilometre south-west from Kuakata sea beach in Patuakhali.

A joint team of Department of Narcotics Control (DNC), Chittagong Metro Sub-zone and Bangladesh Coast Guard recover 6.80 lakh pieces of yaba tablets from the outer anchorage of Chittagong port and detained two persons.

Five lawyers of condemned war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed will meet him at Dhaka Central Jail tomorrow “to discuss the recently released full verdict and the ground of the review”.

A housewife was stabbed to death by her husband over a family feud in Bittiachra village under Benapole Port Police Station on Monday.

Bangladesh Navy personnel on Monday night detained 61 Indian fishermen along with five fishing trawlers from the Bay for intruding into