The government has fixed reasonable prices of 29 essential agricultural products, including onion, broiler chicken, mutton, beef, and eggplant, at the retail, wholesale, producer and production levels amid surging price hikes.
In a circular issued on Friday, the Department of Agricultural Marketing (DAM) requested authorities concerned to sell the products at the newly fixed rates.
According to the new rates, the price of locally produced onion has been set at Tk65.40 per kg at the retail level, which is currently being sold at Tk90-100 in the capital kitchen markets.
Zahidi date, an essential iftar item, price has been fixed at Tk185.07 per kg.
Padma Bank is set to merge with Shariah-based EXIM Bank (Export Import Bank of Bangladesh), marking the first such merger in Bangladesh.
The decision was made this morning at the Exim bank board meeting, where it was also decided that a press conference would be held in this regard on Monday.
"We have taken decision to merge with Exim Bank. We already finalised the draft of the MoU that will be signed on Monday at Bangladesh Bank headquarters in the presence of the central bank governor," chairman of Exim Bank Nazrul Islam Majumder told reporters.
All 23 sailors of hijacked Bangladeshi-flagged cargo ship MV Abdullah are in good health while the government put all efforts to rescue the sailors, Foreign Ministry Maritime Affairs Unit secretary Rear Admiral (Retd) Khurshed Alam said here today.
Discussions with various third-party groups are ongoing in a bid to rescue the hijacked ship, he added.
Khurshed Alam was briefing the media after attending an inter-ministerial meeting regarding the hijack at the Foreign Ministry.
Eminent Rabindra Sangeet singer Sadi Mohamad passed away this evening.
He died around 7:30 pm on Wednesday, local media reports citing family members.
His body is currently at Suhrawardy Medical Hospital morgue.