The High Court refuses to grant bail to a detained businessman of Lakshmipur, Md Main Uddin, in a case filed on charge of illegally storing 42 sacks of onion.

Tofail Ahmed, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on commerce, yesterday said there was no syndicate in the onion market and that the prices of the bulb could not be brought down by force.

An air cargo carrying first consignment of onions from Karachi reaches Dhaka in a bid to pull reins of the onion price.

Commerce Secretary Md Jafar Uddin says legal steps have been taken against 2,500 people for manipulating onion market.

The wholesale onion markets in the capital see the low turnout of buyers as the price of the daily essential has gone beyond the purchasing capacity despite the government’s mechanisms to cool down the overheated market.