Government must address the rising food prices immediately

Lavrov made strong statements on US interference and Russia’s commitment to working with its partners to prevent any outside “dictates.”

Governments confront difficult policy choices as they try to shield their people from record food prices and soaring energy costs driven higher by the war in Ukraine.

Why cut back on public food distribution programmes when they are needed the most?

Riazul Haque, manager of a wholesale rice shop in the capital’s Mirpur, usually goes to Kachukhet kitchen market with Tk 500 every Friday.

Inflation bucked the rising trend for the second consecutive month in October, helped by the cooling off of grocery prices.