Two-thirds of the Holy Month is over, and food prices are at an all-time high. Despite strict surveillance by magistrates to control price hikes and adulteration of food, this Ramadan, like always, traders are doing everything against the law.

With Ramadan just two days away, consumers will have to deal with the hiked prices of essential for the month of fasting this year.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the Rapid Action Battalion to be more vigilant against the unscrupulous businesses and help stabilise the prices of essentials during Ramadan.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) force to be more vigilant against dishonest businesses to help stablise the prices of essentials during the upcoming month of Ramadan

Consumers are bracing for multiple price shocks ahead of Ramadan that usually marks a period of high household spending.

Though there is currently no supply crunch in the country, a section of unscrupulous importers and traders have already hiked the prices of essentials, creating an artificial crisis to make extra profits ahead of Ramadan, said a home ministry report.

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.

Government measures have to be effective, not just for show

When the half crescent appears in the western sky to announce the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, some of our brothers in trade see it as a gold pendant hanging up there, while some others perceive it as a dollar bill.

We don’t need another botched govt relief programme for the poor