Vendors move watermelons on a boat near a wholesale market in Dhaka, Bangladesh, March 21, 2023. Photo: Xinhua Workers unload watermelons from a boat near a wholesale market in Dhaka, Bangladesh ...

Traders wait for customers at Banburhat in Narsingdi as, a trader says, pre-Eid sales at the almost 90-year-old marketplace lack “stamina” and “momentum”.

One will be in Dhaka North, the other in Dhaka South. After the wholesale market, no cargo truck can enter Dhaka. If this can be done, the traffic in Dhaka city will be reduced to a great extent." The ...

Sugar price hike: Sugar prices edged up in the wholesale market of Bangladesh within days after refiners declared that they would sell the sweetener at higher prices from the first day of February.

The blast shook the fourth and fifth floors of a seven-storey building in Gulistan, a major hub for wholesale goods in the capital Dhaka, shortly before 5 pm local time (1100 GMT).

Between 2022 and 2023, food prices in Bangladesh jumped by 9%, the highest average rate in 12 years, according to the country’s Bureau of Statistics. Fruit sellers at a wholesale market in Dhaka ...

Hitches in the wholesale market look set to disrupt supply given that the small dealers control 40 percent of the local market, with the big chunk being the rural economy. Related Economy ...