HealthThe Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection fined three shops in Shah Ali and Kalyanpur a total of Tk 150,000 for keeping loose soybean and palm oil in unhygienic, unlabelled drums.
Daily lifeThe Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection fined 80 businesses in 28 districts a total of Tk 10,39,500, destroying chemically ripened bananas and about 204 litres of soybean oil kept in drums once used for urea-formaldehyde.
Daily lifeA rural electricity customer in Chatkhil, Noakhali, who usually pays Tk 1,200-1,300 a month was billed Tk 110,496 for September, for 6,000 units against an average of 187 over five months; the cooperative says it was a mistake.
HealthPosing as a free health camp, consumer-protection officials in Faridpur upazila, Pabna, caught one business adding a chemical to milk and a dairy making fake milk from jelly and cooking oil.
A joint raid by the consumer rights directorate and BADC found substandard fertiliser being blended at two Sadarghat warehouses; about 40,000 sacks have gone out, some possibly to government stores in BADC sacks.
Fifty-seven teams of the consumer rights directorate checked gas cylinder and staple prices in Dhaka and 47 districts and fined traders Tk 1,091,000; an adulterated-milk operation in Bhangura was sealed.
HealthConsumer-rights officials fined M R Consumers Products at Bahaddarhat after finding ghee made with no milk at all, from palm oil, artificial flavour and harmful colouring; the stock was destroyed.
Daily lifeTwenty-three teams of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection checked price lists, receipts, safety rules and expiry dates at LPG dealers, wholesalers and retailers on Saturday; consumers can report irregularities on hotline 16121.
Daily lifeThe government set the price of a 12kg LPG cylinder at Tk 1,585, yet buyers in at least 13 districts are paying Tk 300 to Tk 800 more or finding none at all, while operators and dealers blame each other.
Daily lifeThe regulated price of a 12 kg LPG cylinder rose from Tk 975 in April 2021 to Tk 1,940 in April 2026; September's fixed price is Tk 1,585, yet shops charge Tk 2,150 to 2,500.
A consumer rights directorate drive around Chattogram Medical College Hospital fined two eateries, a supershop and two pharmacies; cooked food was found stored with raw fish and meat.
Daily lifeAfter a restaurant charged Rs 1,050-1,100 a head for a buffet listed online at Rs 1,500 'cost for two', a Delhi consumer commission ordered it and an online booking platform to pay a diner Rs 100,000 in compensation.
No consignment of Chandpur or Padma hilsa has reached Rangpur's City Bazar in a year, traders say, yet Chattogram and Cox's Bazar fish are sold under those names, lit to look fresh.
