BNP demands cancellation of gas price hike

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Tuesday announced a three-day demonstration programme in protest against the fresh hike in gas prices. The party also demanded the government to immediately revoke its decision of raising the gas prices and take steps to lower the prices of daily essentials. As part of the

Experts reject proposed gas price hike

Speakers at a discussion meeting on the country's 'gas crisis' -dwindling reserves met with increasingly expensive imports - trashed a proposed price hike sent to the energy regulator by the state-owned gas distribution companies for drawing on erroneous assessment. "The proposal to hike the gas price by 117 percent is abnormally