Dhaka, April 15 -- There will be no fuel shortage in the country in the next two months, even though crude oil imports have been disrupted by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz following the war in the Middle East, says the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources.

Addressing a press conference at the Secretariat on Wednesday, ministry spokesperson and Joint Secretary Monir Hossain Chowdhury said: "We will not have any fuel shortage in the next two months, Allah willing."

He said the government had given assurances about octane and petrol stocks, and now that same assurance applies to the storage of diesel.

Monir, however, revealed that the production at the Eastern Refinery Limited, Bangladesh's only state-owned oil refining f...