District
Cotton warehouse catches fire in Gazipur
A fire broke out at a cotton warehouse of NR Textile Mill in Porabari area here on Saturday morning.
Elderly woman electrocuted in Chandpur
An elderly woman died of electrocution here at Muktirkandi village in Matlab Uttar upazila on Friday.
314 families get electricity connection in Laxmipur
Several hundred families were brought under electricity connection here at Gandhobbopur village in Sadar upazila on Friday evening.
Two motorcyclists killed in train accident
Two motorcyclists were killed after being hit by a train at Mondolbhog village rail crossing in Katiadi upazila on Friday.
Onion price soars to Tk 250 per kg in Khulna
Keeping pace with other parts of the country, markets in Khulna saw tear-jerking onion prices on Friday with each kilogram selling at Tk 230 to Tk 250.
Quick action by 2 youths helps avert another train accident
Another fatal train crash could have been Friday’s news headline, but this time the lucky passengers of ‘Chattrola Express’ were saved as two young men took quick action after a truck got stuck at Murapara level-crossing in Burichang upazila here on Thursday.
Tipu, a gateman of Murapara level-crossing, said a sand-laden truck overturned on the level-crossing around 5:30 pm while crossing the track.
Stolen baby rescued in Bogura: One held
Police rescued a baby boy from a house at Latifpur Colony in the district town on Thursday, twenty four hours after the boy had been stolen by an unidentified woman from Bogura Shahee ZiaurRahman Medical College Hospital.
4 grocery shop owners fined in Chandpur for selling onion at higher price
A mobile court here on Thursday fined four grocery shop owners Tk 14000 for selling onion at higher price in Shahrasti upazila.
Onion price jumps; almost 25 pc rise in one day
Chattogram, Nov 14 (UNB) – The price of onion moved up further by Tk 40-60 to Tk 180-200 per kg at the retail market here on Thursday, proving futile the government’s all mechanisms to cool down the overheated onion market, and much to the anger of consumers.
Consumers alleged that unscrupulous businessmen continued to raise the onion price through syndication as the ‘government has no control over the market’.
However, traders at Khatunganj wholesale market blamed the supply shortage as the import against the demand is inadequate as well as the failure to release the imported onion from ports due to cyclone Bulbul for the skyrocketing price of the cooking ingredient.
Meanwhile, Commerce Secretary Dr Jafar Uddin on Thursday said the onion price will not start falling to the previous level before the first week of December.
Visiting different markets, it was found that all varieties of onion -– local, Myanmar, Egyptian and Indian -- were selling at Tk 190-Tk 200 per kg at retail market on Thursday.
In wholesale markets, local onion was selling at Tk 160-Tk 180, Myanmar onion at Tk 140-Tk 165, Egypt onion at Tk 135-Tk 140 and Indian onion at Tk 130.
The price was Tk 115-Tk 120, Tk 105-Tk 110, Tk 90-Tk 98 and Tk 130-Tk 140 respectively three days back.
In the capital, the wholesale price of onion was Tk 180 per kg at Karwanbazar on Thursday.Talking to UNB, wholesaler Md Mosharraf said the price has gone up as the demand is much higher than the supply.
Another wholesaler Md Alamgir Hossain said he sold local variety of onion at Tk 190 per kg on Thursday and it will rise further on Friday. “If the onion supply reduces in the wholesale market, the price gets higher naturally in retail markets,” he said.
Bolai Kumar, a wholesale trader at Khatunganj, blamed the government and the local administration for the price hike, saying, “Without finding out the key reason behind the crisis, they’re handing out jail terms and imposing fine on us.”
Two JMB men held in Chattogram
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, a banned militant outfit, in Patiya upazila here on Thursday.