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Prices of vegetables doubled due to shortage of supply during curfew
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24 Jul 2024, 22:12
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Curfew has been in effect since the night of July 19 across the country. As a result, almost all types of vegetables are being sold at double prices in the markets of the capital due to supply shortages. As the supply is less than the demand, on the one hand, common people are in trouble, on the other hand, sales have decreased.
On Wednesday (July 24), such images were seen by visiting different markets of the capital.
It has been noticed that Ribbed gourd are being sold at 80 taka per kg; Which was 50 taka before the curfew. Bitter gourds are being sold at Tk 140 per kg, increasing from Tk 80. Tomatoes are being sold at Tk 200 per kg; Which was 160 taka. Cucumber and pointed gourds are being sold at Tk 60 per kg. Snake gourd is being sold at Tk 70 per kg.
Before the imposition of curfew, Brinjal was sold at Tk 60 to 70 per kg, but now it is being sold at Tk 90 to 100. Sponge gourd was sold at Tk 40 per kg but now it is selling at Tk 70.
40 taka per kg of Ladies finger is being sold at 60 taka, 60 taka radish at 80 taka, 160 taka carrot at 200 taka and 60 taka String beans at 100 taka.
Red amaranth is being sold at Tk 20, Radish leaves at Tk 15, Bottle gourd leaf at Tk 50, Green amaranth at Tk 30 and water spinach at Tk 15 each.
Apart from this, broiler chicken is being sold at Tk 210-220 per kg. Pakistani chicken is being sold at Tk 300-320, layer chicken at Tk 345-350, and country chicken at Tk 580-600 per kg.
The sellers say that even though enough vegetables are produced in the field, due to the curfew, enough vegetable trucks could not come to the capital. Where there is demand for 10 cars of vegetables, 2 cars have arrived. Despite the good production, the price of vegetables has increased due to increased demand and shortage of supply system.
A buyer named Mahfuz Khan said that the price of all goods has almost doubled. There is no way that people will eat a little vegetable. We hope that everything will be normalized soon.
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Asif Mahmud got responsibility of Youth and Sports Ministry
As the head of the interim government, the Nobel Prize winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus took oath on Thursday. He promised to give a new Bangladesh. Apart from this, 16 more people have been kept as advisors.
Friday (August 9) around 11:30 Advisors of the Interim Government paid tribute at the Central Shaheed Minar led by Dr. Muhammad Yunus. After that, the responsibilities of various ministries have been handed over to the advisors. Where young student leader Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan has the responsibility of the Youth and Sports Ministry.
Asif Mahmud is one of the coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement. He was active on social media during the movement. Asif came on Facebook Live and gave instructions to the agitators. He became the 'advisor of the interim government' from the coordinator of the anti-discrimination student movement.
Asif Mahmud's house is in Akubpur village of Muradnagar upazila of Comilla. His father's name is Md. Billal Hossain and mother's name is Roksana Begum. He was a former student of Adamjee Cantonment College and platoon sergeant of the college's BNCC club. He was a student in the 2017-18 academic year of the Linguistics Department of Dhaka University. This young student leader replaced Nazmul Hasan Papon.
Bangladesh Railway: Trains to start running across the country
Trains will resume across the country from tomorrow after being stopped due to security concerns amid violence and vandalism. However, freight trains will run from August 12. Mail, express, local, and commuter trains from August 13 and intercity trains from August 15.
Bangladesh Railway Director General Sardar Sahadat Ali confirmed this information to the media on Sunday (August 11).
He said, 'The trains will start running from tomorrow but the trains will run at full speed from August 15 including intercity.
Bangladesh Railway Public Relations Director Nahid Hasan Khan said in a circular sent to the media that the movement of Parabot and Jamalpur Express trains will be temporarily stopped. Intercity train tickets can be purchased from 5 pm tomorrow.
NSI new Director General Major General Sarwar
Major General Abu Mohammad Sarwar Farid appointed as new Director General of National Intelligence Agency (NSI).
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) reported this on Tuesday (August 13).
According to ISPR, Major General Abu Mohammad Sarwar Farid of Bangladesh Army has been appointed as Director General of NSI, Major General Mohammad Asadullah Minhazul Alam has been appointed as Commandant of DSCSC and Major General Khandakar Md Shahidul Emran has been appointed as Commandant of BMA.
Salman F Rahman and Anisul Haque arrested
Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina's adviser on private industry and investment Salman F Rahman and former law minister Anisul Haque have been arrested.
Law and order forces arrested them on Tuesday, August 13.
It has been reported that the former prime minister's adviser Salman F Rahman and former law minister Anisul Haque were arrested by the police from the Sadarghat area while escaping by sea in a case at Newmarket police station.
Application for 10 days remand of Salman F Rahman and Anisul Haque
The police have applied for a 10-day remand of former Prime Minister's Private Industry and Investment advisor Salman F Rahman and former Law Minister Anisul Haque, who were arrested in a murder case at Newmarket police station in Dhaka.
A hearing will be held in Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Mamunur Rashid's court on Wednesday (August 14).
Earlier, the police arrested them from the capital's Sadarghat area while they were fleeing by boat on Tuesday afternoon.
According to DMP sources, Salman F Rahman and Anisul Haque are trying to escape after receiving information from intelligence sources that a police team went to the Sadarghat area. The two leaders thought it was a safe route and tried to escape by river route when they were arrested from there.
Incidentally, a student and a hawker were killed in a clash in front of Dhaka College on July 16 during the anti-discrimination student movement. In this regard, a murder case has been registered at Newmarket police station. It assumed that Salman F Rahman and Anisul Haque had been arrested as the instigators of those murders.
Superfluous of Hajj Expenses, Air fare / Jubo League leader Taslim Behind the Scene!
M Shahadat Hossain Taslim, an influential leader of Awami Jubo League has formed an unprecedented 'commercial syndicate' with the Holy Hajj. He is the presidium member of Jubo League, the youth organization of Bangladesh Awami League, and the president of the Hajj Agencies Association of Bangladesh (HAAB). At his behest, air fares for hajj pilgrims were increased unusually. This is because he is the General Sales Agent (GSA) of Bangladesh for the Flynas Airlines, a budget Saudi Arabian air carrier.
Three airlines carry hajj pilgrims. These include Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Saudia Airlines and Flynas Airlines. Around 90 percent of Hajj passengers are expected to travel on Bangladesh Biman and Saudi Airlines flights. And Flynas Airlines is supposed to carry 10 to 15 percent passengers.
However, breaking the rules, Taslim carried more than half of the passengers of Bangladesh Biman in Flynas flight. Thus, Taslim and the members of his syndicate took hundreds of crores of Takas from the pockets of pilgrims.
After the recent fall of the Sheikh Hasina government, the Hajj agency owners have spoken out against the arbitrariness of Taslim. They demanded to save the hub and the pilgrims from the `Taslim Syndicate’.
The agency owners said that, in 2023, Hub President Taslim became the General Sales Agent (GSA) of Flynas Airlines in Bangladesh. That year, the air fare of pilgrims increased from Tk 58,000 to Tk 1,98,000. Taslim worked behind this rent upsurge. And he took the extra fare in his pocket through Flynas Airlines.
In the year of 2023 Taslim reduced the number of flights of Bangladesh Biman and carried 20,000 passengers on Flynas. The same number of Hajj passengers carried this year as well. The extra rent went into the pockets of him and his syndicate. Taslim Syndicate is the `real villain’ of airfare hike.
HAAB members complain that Taslim has held the HAAB hostage by using the influence of Jubo League's presidium membership. Therefore, people of other political ideologies cannot come to the leadership of the Hub. In this regard, Taslim was very welcomed by former finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, former Prime Minister's adviser on industry and private investment Salman F Rahman and former Feni MP Nizam Hazari.
Under their umbrella, Taslim monopolizes and continues the Hajj trade. Hub members believe that Taslim also fled the country after the fall of Sheikh Hasina's government recently.
Hajj agency owners said Taslim and Awami Ulama League along with some opportunistic license owners took over the hub office in 2019. Later he declared himself as the the president of HAAB. He was assisted by the then State Minister for Religion Sheikh Abdullah(late) and Jubo League President Omar Farooq Chowdhury and Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat.
The victims said that the air fare for Haj in 2019 was Tk. 1 lakh 28000 . That rent increased to Tk.1 lakh 40,000 in 2022. In the next year, the air fare increased to Tk. 1 lakh 98,000. Despite widespread criticism, the rent was not reduced. Shahadat Hossain Taslim, the leader of the Haj Syndicate, acted as the mastermind behind the fare hike.
HAAB leaders said Taslim Syndicate members have been collecting additional air ticket fare and 1 percent house rent for the last 6 years. During this time, they embezzled Tk. 7000 crore. Not only that, he made the hub office a hangout for Jubo League and Ulama League.
HAAB leaders also said that almost every evening, the Taslim Syndicate conducts alcohol-gambling in the HUB office. Currently the hub office is occupied by his committee of Ulama League and his fellow Hajj license holders. The Taslim Syndicate has smuggled Tk. thousands of crores abroad by creating a syndicate in Malaysia.
Nazim Uddin, the owner of Al Nafi Hajj Travel Agency, told a media that this syndicate must be shattered and HAAB needs to be unblemished. He also advised that Airfare should be reduced and Hajj should be made within the reach of common people.
Meanwhile, Taslim could not be contacted as he was in hiding after the recent fall of Hasina's government.
New Routine Revealed of Postponed HSC Exam
The new routine for the HSC and equivalent examinations, which were postponed due to the situation surrounding the quota reform movement in government jobs and the change in government, has been revealed. The rest of the exams will start from September 11.
The schedule was published on the Dhaka Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board website on Thursday (August 15).
Click here to see the HSC exam schedule: https://www.dhakaeducationboard.gov.bd/data/20240815145651126185.pdf
The postponed HSC exam is scheduled to be held from 11 September 2024.
Earlier, HSC and equivalent exams were postponed several times. First, the last July 18 exam was postponed. Then the HSC and equivalent examinations of all education boards on July 21, 23, and 25 were simultaneously postponed.
After this, another phase of the examination was postponed from July 28 to August 1. The next exam was scheduled to start on August 4, but it was postponed. Finally, on August 11, the remaining exams were scheduled to be conducted in the new schedule, but the HSC and equivalent exams were postponed indefinitely due to the burning of question papers.
