The prices of almost all vegetables have crossed the Tk 100-mark, piling pressure on the poor and the low-income segment already battling with a cost of living crisis for the past two years.

The government has decided to construct 4,032 rental-based residential flats for low-income individuals during the new fiscal year

Taking Tk 300 from her rickshaw-puller husband, Moni Begum went to Mirpur-11 kitchen market in the capital yesterday in the hope of buying some good food for her three children to eat on the first day of Ramadan.

The broiler chicken has seen an increase in price at the farmer level over the past one week while there is also a shortage in market against the demand