Top Japanese power generation company JERA said Thursday it had signed an initial agreement aimed at buying liquefied natural gas from a huge pipeline project in Alaska, after Tokyo agreed to increase US purchases as part of a trade deal...
Around 20,000 Berlin homes and businesses were still without power Wednesday, a day after a fire hit electricity pylons in what police labelled a suspected arson attack...
National Skills Development Authority (NSDA) executive chairman (secretary) Nazneen Kausar Chowdhury on Monday said that the authority aims to integrate workers of the tourism and hospitality sector into decent and dignified employment through skills-based training and certification...
The government on Thursday approved the Renewable Energy-Based Commercial Power Generation Policy, 2025 with the aim of promoting private sector investment in the renewable energy sector and making electricity more affordable for consumers...
Russian forces launched more than 500 drones and missiles at Ukraine in a large-scale聽attack that mainly targeted the west of the country and caused power outages, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday...
Prime Bank PLC, in collaboration with Independent University, Bangladesh and its human resource management department and Independent HR Society recently organised a high-impact seminar titled 鈥楩inancial Inclusion: Engaging & Inspiring Youth in Banking鈥� at the IUB campus...
FOR decades, voters have heard promises of integrity, justice and accountability. These promises have come with every election, but they have invariably ended in disappointment. Investigations have faltered, commissions have been wound up and the very leaders who promised to end corruption and impunity have, too, often joined the ranks of those who...
Former chief engineer of Bangladesh Power Development Board Quazi Md Khaled died at a hospital in in Dhaka on Monday.
The government is going to retender the procurement of coal for the 1,320-megawatt thermal power plant in Patuakhali for the fifth occasion after the previous four bids in as many as four years went abortive.
Shares in the Danish wind power group Orsted plunged Monday after the US government halted construction at an offshore site that is 80 per cent complete, the latest of several orders blocking wind power by the administration of President Donald Trump...
THE findings of a multidimensional survey that the finance ministry has funded to assess how families coped with issues of income, employment, expenditure, financial resilience and digital participation in one year since the 2024 uprising are worrying. The poverty rate increased to 27.93 per cent in May 2025, as the survey that research and policy advocacy organisation Power...
The 19th anniversary of Phulbari Tragedy Day will be observed today with the demand of full implementation of the Phulbari agreement signed between the government and the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports...
Energypac Engineering Limited has exported 63MVA 132/33kV Power transformers and auxiliary substation equipment to Nepal Electricity Authority, under a contract valued at $2.4 million, said a press release...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has found evidences of huge amounts of illegal assets, including land and flats, of former Dhaka Power Distribution Company chief engineer Md Belayet Hossain and his wife Shamsun Nahar...
Investor confidence, changes in policymakers鈥� outlook, home-grown policy and economic viability of power projects are highly crucial for shifting towards generating clean energy, experts said...
The Institute for Global Cooperation Foundation, a youth-led and youth-driven think tank, was launched on Sunday at a hotel in Dhaka with the aim of empowering young people and creating opportunities for them at home and abroad...
Africa has everything it takes to become a 鈥榬enewable superpower鈥�, UN head Antonio Guterres said Thursday, as he called for greater investment in green energy across the resource-rich continent...
The Criminal Investigation Department has seized assets worth Tk聽500 crore belonging to manpower businessman Ruhul Amin Swapon and some other individuals and organisations linked to him...
Dhaka University pro-vice-chancellor for administration Professor Sayema Haque Bidisha at a seminar on Thursday said that it was the right time to take the country forward by utilising the power of youth...
Britain, France and Germany have told the United Nations they are ready to reimpose UN-mandated sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme if no diplomatic solution is found by the end of August, according to a joint letter released Wednesday...
The newly appointed specialist batting coach Julian Wood has started to conduct a camp for the Bangladesh women鈥檚 national cricket team before joining the Tigers.
Social welfare and women and children affairs adviser Sharmeen S Murshid on Sunday highlighted the government鈥檚 commitment to advancing women鈥檚 empowerment and expanding opportunities for women in Bangladesh...
In a major stride for Bangladesh鈥檚 energy security, JERA Meghnaghat Power Limited officially launched commercial operations at one of the country鈥檚 largest and most efficient gas-fired power plants in Meghnaghat of Narayanganj on July 28...
A COALITION of cross-regional states met in Bogot谩, Colombia in mid-July to discuss measures to disrupt Israel鈥檚 genocide of Palestinians. The subsequent commitments by some of those governments to end all material support to Israel and to uphold international law is an important development not just to end the genocide, but to counter the relentless militarism...
At least four people, including three from a family, were killed as a train rammed a CNG-powered autorickshaw at a level crossing in the Rashidnagar area at Ramu in Cox鈥檚 Bazar on Saturday.
The entire Habiganj district has been left without electricity as a fire broke out at the 33/11 kV switching station of Shahjibazar Power Plant Thursday night...
THE government of China has formally embarked on constructing what is projected to become the world鈥檚 largest hydropower dam on the Yarlung Zangbo river, known downstream as the Brahmaputra in India and Bangladesh. This mega-dam will comprise a cascade of five hydropower stations situated in Nyingchi, southeastern Tibet and will be capable of generating...
Robi Axiata PLC and the BIID Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding on Saturday to advance digital inclusion and social development across the country...
A memorandum of understanding was signed between Sundarban Delta Growth Initiative and the Arab contractor consortium Orascom Peninsula at the Khulna Club auditorium on Saturday, aiming to build a 600-megawatt solar power plant in Khulna, with an estimated cost of Tk 8,000 crore.
Enid Medina Guzman always has candles on hand 鈥� not for creating ambiance, but because one of the blackouts that plague Puerto Rico could strike at any time...