A fire broke out at a garment factory in Bhogra Vasan road area of Gazipur city early Monday. Abdul Hamid Mia, Deputy Assistant Director of Gazipur Fire Service, said the blaze started around 6am in the dyeing and knitting section of Alema Textile Limited. Read: Fire in power substation triggers outage in Naogaon On information, four firefighting units rushed to the spot and extinguished the blaze in a couple of hours.  Machineries and other valuables  inside the one-storey building were gutted in the fire before the fire was brought under control, officials said. Read: Fire breaks out at polybag factory in Cumilla However, the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained, he added.

With the announcement of the proposed national budget for the upcoming fiscal year (2020-21), a number of products are expected to see fluctuation in prices.