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‘Onion, sugar likely to be imported from India before Ramadan’

Business Report :
State Minister for Commerce Ahsanul Islam Titu on Sunday said that the government would be able to supply onion and sugar, imported from India, to the market before the holy month of Ramadan.
“Already a proposal for importing 50,000 metric tons of onion and one lakh metric tons of sugar was sent to India and got assurance from them about 20,000 metric tons of onion and 50,000 metric tons of sugar. However, we hope we would be able to import products as per our demand,” he said while talking to reporters at the Bangladesh Secretariat.
He said the foreign minister got assurance from India about onion and sugar supply adding, “We’ll get good news over it within Thursday,” he said.