PDB official Mosharraf dies
Md Mosharraf Hossain, senior assistant director of the Training and Career Development Directorate of the Bangladesh Power Development Board, has passed away...
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Trump II could be moment to break US tech power: author
America鈥檚 lashing out at trade partners under the second presidency of Donald Trump could prove the moment to break its tech firms鈥� power beyond US borders, activist Cory Doctorow told AFP Tuesday...
Why future depends on unity in diversity
NOTHING in nature repeats itself. No two rivers carve the land in exactly the same way. No two leaves bear the same pattern. No two human hearts think or feel exactly alike. Life thrives on difference: diversity is the law of survival. Yet humanity has for generations fought this truth 鈥� substituting difference with sameness, variety with uniformity, freedom with conformity...
Fertiliser, power and betrayal of farmers
BANGLADESHI farmers today face a silent struggle. The very people who enrich this nation鈥檚 soil, whose sweat sustains our food security, have become the cruelest victims of state negligence. While the urban elite enjoy lavish comforts, stash wealth abroad, and wield political clout, the farmers in the fields cry out simply to save their crops...
Govt pays Adani dues partially
Bangladesh government has cleared about $30 million in dues to Adani Power Limited to ensure the supply of power from the controversial Godda power plant in Indian state of Jharkhand.
IDCOL wins Asian Power Award
Infrastructure Development Company Limited has been named 鈥楽olar Power Project of the Year 鈥� Bangladesh鈥� winner at the Asian Power Awards 2025 for its contribution to the 68MW (AC) Sirajganj Solar Power Project...
AI revolution faces power problem
In the race for AI dominance, American tech giants have the money and the chips, but their ambitions have hit a new obstacle: electric power...
BRAC Bank, IDCOL finance $67m for solar power plant
BRAC Bank PLC and Infrastructure Development Company Limited jointly financed a landmark renewable energy initiative, a 64.55 MW solar power plant operated by Bangladesh China Renewable Energy Company Limited...
Fire breaks out at wood pile of Rooppur Power Plant
A fire broke out at a wood pile within the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant at Ishwardi in Pabna on Thursday.
United Power wins Asian Innovation Excellence award
United Group has won 鈥楤angladesh Operational Innovation of the Year 鈥� Energy鈥� award at Asian Innovation Excellence Awards 2025, held at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre in Singapore recently...
Power price hike rests on elected govt decision
The interim government has expressed unwillingness to revise the power tariff before the next national election slated for the first half of February, said finance ministry officials...
POWER DEAL:聽Govt at odds with Adani
Bangladesh government is at loggerheads with the Adani Power Plant in the Indian state of Jharkhand over a deal on import of power from the plant.
Summit Meghnaghat repays $190m in foreign loans
Summit Meghnaghat Power Company Limited, a subsidiary of Summit Power International, has fully repaid its long-term loans worth $190 million to an international lender consortium by October 15...
Community Bank, SplitPay partner to empower youth
Community Bank Bangladesh PLC has entered into a strategic collaboration with SplitPay Bangladesh Limited, an emerging fintech startup, to explore innovative financial solutions aimed at making digital payments more accessible, flexible and inclusive for the youth of Bangladesh...
Body flags irregularities in AL-era power deals
Power, energy and mineral resources adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan on Sunday said that the national review committee found 鈥榤assive irregularities鈥� in deals including ones with foreign companies by the past regime under Quick Enhancement of...
BNP rejects any idea limiting women progress: Tarique
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Thursday said that empowerment of women wasn鈥檛 only fairness, but also part of cognitive economy...
BB eases rules for payment
Bangladesh Bank has relaxed regulations for power import payments, allowing authorised dealer banks to make outward remittances for power purchases without seeking prior case-to-case approval from the central bank...
US govt inks $80b nuclear 鈥榩artnership鈥� for AI
The Trump administration has entered into a new $80 billion 鈥榮trategic partnership鈥� to boost nuclear power generation to support AI deployment, one of its partners on the project announced Tuesday...
Drug war or power play
THE recent US government military surge vis-a-vis Venezuela, including the USS Gerald R Ford and the most advanced warplanes, has generated fears of a potentially dangerous escalation. President Donald Trump has said the operation was aimed at cracking down on drug trafficking and alleged that Venezuela is a conduit for such activity. Drug trafficking is...
Walton installs floating solar power plant at headquarters
Tech-giant Walton, as a part of its green initiatives, has installed floating solar power plant at its headquarters at Chandra in Gazipur with one megawatt capacity, said a press release...
9 consignments of Rooppur NPP damaged
Electrical equipment, motors, and other machinery parts of about nine consignments, weighing around 18 tonnes, imported for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant were destroyed in the fire at a cargo village section of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Saturday...
CA鈥檚 intervention demanded to stop damaging haors
Environmental activists, farmers and members of the local fishing community on Sunday urged the interim government chief adviser, Professor Muhammad Yunus, and the authorities of the ministries concerned to take steps to stop the ongoing attempts of filling up paddy fields and destroying wetlands at Moulvibazar Sadar upazila for installing a solar power project...
China trials 鈥榚nergy-saving鈥� underwater聽data centres
Power-hungry data centers run hot, so one Chinese company is planning to submerge a pod of servers in the sea off Shanghai with hopes of solving computing鈥檚 energy woes.
German police to get power to shoot down drones
German federal police will soon be allowed to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles, interior minister Alexander Dobrindt said Wednesday, after a spate of drone sightings believed to be Russian efforts to spy and intimidate...
Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia sign landmark manpower recruitment deal
Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia on Monday signed an agreement in Riyadh on the recruitment of general workers, the first of its kind between the two countries in their 50-year history of diplomatic relations...
Adviser talks about port dev, manpower export at UAE
Shipping and labour and employment adviser Brigadier General (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain met with UAE minister of energy and infrastructure Suhail Mohamed Al Mazrouei in Dubai on October 2 to discuss key areas of bilateral cooperation...
RNPP test run in Dec: adviser
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Tuesday said that the test run of the much vaunted Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant at Iswardi in Pabna would be conducted in December...
Muslim states join European powers in backing Trump Gaza plan
Key Muslim nations have thrown their weight behind a plan by US president Donald Trump to end the war in Gaza, even as some Palestinians decried the proposal as a 鈥榝arce鈥�...
Energypac opens Amar Gari 5S Service Centre
Energypac Power Generation PLC has recently launched its latest service initiative called 鈥楢mar Gari 5S Service Centre鈥� at Vogra, Gazipur on Dhaka Mymensing Highway, said a press release...
Banglalink launches AI-powered customer support platform
Banglalink has launched Bangladesh鈥檚 first AI-powered complaint management system in the telecom sector, said a press release...
