Jafar Uddin read out a written statement to the media in three minutes and left the press conference without taking questions. “In this situation, the steps have been taken to import onions as per the prime minister’s order," he said. “You’ll be happy to know that the first shipment of onions by S Alam Group will arrive in Bangladesh tomorrow,” he said. “It takes about one and a half months to bring onions through the sea route. The prices continued to rise and hovered around Tk 250, a record in Bangladesh, over the weekend.

Source: bd News24 November 18, 2019 12:00 UTC