::: Star Weekend Magazine :::

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Cover Story

Pricey Shocks

In the first week of Ramadan when the news of price hike of essentials dominated every important national daily in the country, a team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) raided Khatungonj, a wholesale market of Chittagong. With onions being one of the items being sold at unusually high prices, onion wholesale shops in Khatungonj, Chaktai and Asadgonj were the targets of the elite forces. Late in the morning of October 19, plainclothes RAB members appeared at one of Khatungonj's biggest wholesale markets, Hamidullah Mian Market, and began their queries about the prices of onions, garlic, ginger, etc. On completion of their enquiry, they left the scene only to return in uniform and in bigger numbers.