In markets across Dhaka, hilsa lies glistening on ice, admired, photographed, priced, but rarely bought. Because now, one ...

In Domkhali Jaldash Para, Ratan Jaldash, a wiry man with tired eyes and a younger family to feed, sits on the edge of a ...

Yet across the border in Bangladesh, prices are still high because catches are low. The fish costs up to 2,200 taka ($18.40) a kilogramme in Dhaka's Kawran Bazar.

Demand is so high for the herring-like hilsa — the national fish of Bangladesh and a much-loved delicacy in India's adjoining West Bengal state — that Dhaka this year banned exports.

The SAARC Development Fund (SDF), in partnership with leading national institutions and technical government agencies of the ...

Bangladesh has announced that it will allow the export of 3,000 metric tons of Hilsa fish to India ahead of Durga Puja, as confirmed by the government on Saturday.

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Colombo – The SAARC Development Fund (SDF), in partnership with leading national institutions and technical government agencies of the five SAARC member countries, officially launched the ...

Fish sells for as much as 1,800 rupees ($21.45) a kilogramme, compared to around 1,300 rupees ($15.50) last year. It is a princely sum, about what a labourer could earn in around two days.

Aishwarya KUMAR with Mohammad MAZED in Dhaka Sep 23, 2024 Sep 23, 2024Updated Sep 24, 2024 Comments Exports of Bangladesh's popular Hilsa fish to India have become an unlikely victim of a ...

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