UP chairman accused of stealing 50 sacks of VGF rice

Our Correspondent . Bogura  | Updated at 01:37am on December 23, 2019

A union council chairman has allegedly stolen 50 sacks of rice allocated for Vulnerable Group Feeding from a village warehouse at Sariakandi in Bogura. Sariakandi...

Sovereignty and rice

Farida Akhter | Updated at 10:01pm on December 15, 2019

FORTY-EIGHT years ago in 1971, Bangladesh emerged as a sovereign nation through a bloody liberation war, Mukti Juddha. We are now a sovereign country with...

Top 50 millers have capacity to influence rice market

Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on December 02, 2019

The top 50 auto rice millers with 20 per cent of the national milling capacity had the power to influence the supply and prices of...

Three committees formed to monitor rice market

United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 05:33pm on December 01, 2019

Amid the uptrend in rice prices, the Ministry of Food on Sunday formed three committees and set up a control room to monitor the retail...

Ganosamhati protests price hike of essentials

Staff Correspondent | Updated at 02:06am on November 25, 2019

GanOsamhati Andolan on Sunday staged a sit-in in front of the TCB Bhaban at Karwran Bazar in the capital to protest the inflated price of...

Prices hit hard people with fixed, low income

Shakhawat Hossain | Updated at 12:33am on November 25, 2019

Sohel Ahmed, a private-organisation employee, is struggling to maintain his five-member family with his monthly salary of Tk 30,000 following the hike in the prices...

It’s now salt

Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:47am on November 20, 2019

Rice prices go up by Tk 8 in a week

Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:41am on November 18, 2019

Prices of rice increased up to Tk 8 a kilogram in a week with the rise in the staple prices by Tk 2 a kg...

Prices of rice, broiler chicken, edible oil increase

Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on November 16, 2019

The prices of some varieties of rice, broiler chicken and edible oil increased in the city’s kitchen markets over the week ending Friday. Traders said...

Asia rice: Vietnam export rates soar on robust Africa, Cuba demands

Reuters . Bengaluru | Updated at 12:00am on October 25, 2019

Vietnamese rice export prices rose to a four-and-a-half-month high this week on healthy demand from Africa and Cuba as supply remained scant, while a stronger...