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Onion price starts falling; wholesalers receive backlash
As onion price started falling with the government’s move to import it and arrival of the locally-produced one in the market, the wholesalers in the capital were seen passing idle time on Sunday due to poor turnout of retailers fearing losses.
Move underway to import extra 30,000 mt octane
The government will import an additional 30,000 metric tonnes of octane to meet the growing demand of fuel, mainly consumed by vehicles such as cars, jeeps and motorcycles for November and December this year.
Local variety hits Faridpur onion markets, price falling
Amid its serious short supply across the country, the farmers here have started selling the newly-harvested local variety of onion, ‘Murikata’, at Tk 112 per kg.
Onion import from Myanmar on the rise
In the wake of the overheated onion market triggered by an Indian export ban, the import of onion from Myanmar has risen significantly with 11,732 tonnes entering the country through Teknaf in November till Saturday.
On average, 733.25 tonnes of onion were imported every day through the port in the current month, said Absar Uddin, customs revenue officer at the port.
He said a total of 20,843 tonnes of onion entered the country in October with 672.35 tonnes on average every day.
Md Jasim Uddin Chowdhury, manager of the port, said the onion import from Myanmar saw a rise in November compared to the previous month. “If the current trend continues, more onion will arrive in the country in the current month than October's,” he said.
He said importers are bringing in Burmese variety of the cooking ingredient every day.
Dhaka needs to utilise growing global pressure on Myanmar: Experts
Like Myanmar, its friends will also feel the “pressure” amid significant development on “legal front” that Bangladesh needs to utilise prudently to keep up the growing global pressure on Myanmar until a solution to Rohingya crisis is found, say foreign affairs analysts.
Onion still selling at ‘Tk 260’ in retail markets
Onion price in the city's wholesale markets remained almost unchanged on Saturday compared to Friday’s amid fall in sale after the government’s announcement to import it from different countries on an emergency basis but it continued to soar in retail markets.
Saudi dream turns into nightmare for Bangladeshi worker Sumi
“They pounced on me almost every single night. I fainted at times but they didn’t stop. They’d beat me up if I protested” – this is how Bangladeshi worker Sumi Akter, who returned from Saudi Arabia after five and a half months, described her ordeal.
“I went there for work but why was I subjected to such inhuman physical and sexual torture?” she asked.
Sumi, daughter of day-labourer Md Rafiqul Islam of Panchagarh’s Boda Upazila, went to the kingdom as a domestic help on May 30.
She said her husband, Nurul Islam, instigated her to go to Saudi Arabia as a domestic help.
Onion prices keep soaring
An artificial crisis created by syndicates of importers and various groups in different areas is behind the unusual hike in onion prices which reached Tk 220 in the capital’s markets on Friday, traders alleged.
Sundarbans bears the brunt of cyclone Bulbul
The cyclone Bulbul that wreaked havoc in the country’s coastal districts in the early hours of Sunday damaged 4,589 trees, including Sundari, in the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest and a Unesco world heritage site.
12 years into Sidr: Bagerhat residents yet to get durable embankment
Twelve years ago, another much stronger cyclone, 'Sidr', took a similar path to ‘Bulbul’ that ripped through the coastal districts, including Bagerhat.