A MAJOR way to reform the power and energy sector, which has plunged the economy into a serious crisis for the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of the Awami League, toppled on August 5, is to repeal the Quick Enhancement of Electricity and Energy Supply Act 2010 that has all along safeguarded actors and their action in the sector by keeping...
Protected by controversial laws, a fossil fuel business syndicate turned the power and energy sector into a hotbed of corruption and inefficiency, reducing the sector into the single-most important factor behind Bangladesh鈥檚 current economic challenges, said the Centre for Policy Dialogue on Sunday...
The interim government that replaced the Sheikh Hasina-led autocracy saw a rapid worsening of the country鈥檚 power crisis after India鈥檚 Adani power had shut down one of its two units each producing 748MW burning coal...
THE recently occurring revolution is one of the most significant events in the history of Bangladesh and South Asia. The aftereffects of the revolution have many challenging tasks for the newly formed interim government in Bangladesh. The first challenge that this government is facing is to bring about law and order in the country...
Russia鈥檚 nuclear agency on Saturday said Ukraine鈥檚 shock cross-border attack posed a 鈥榙irect threat鈥� to a nuclear power plant located less than 50 kilometres from the combat zone...
Long queues of power consumers were seen on Monday at local power distribution offices in the capital for their prepaid meters needed to be recharged...
Thousands of people were compelled to break the curfew across the country on Sunday to go to the nearest electricity supply and distribution offices to recharge their prepaid power meters...
The Ishwardi upazila administration evicted several hundred illegal structures from the Ishwardi-Kushtia highway near the Rooppur Nuclear Power Project on Saturday...
A leak in the pipeline supplying liquefied natural gas at Anwara in Chattogram more than doubled load shedding on Wednesday compared with the day before...
Bangladesh-based Energypac Power Generation PLC recently celebrated its 20 years of partnership with Perkins, one of the world鈥檚 leading UK-based providers of diesel engines, said a press release....
Hundreds of people in one of Pakistan鈥檚 hottest cities stormed a power station in protest against cuts lasting up to 20 hours a day, police said...
State minister for power, energy and mineral resources Nasrul Hamid on Thursday assured that the power supply situation in Bangladesh was expected to improve within the next three to four days, with uninterrupted gas supply anticipated by mid-July....
The first unit of the two units of the coal-fired power plant owned by India鈥檚 Adani Power in Godda resumed operation at 5:00am on Monday, about two days after the unit was forced shut down, said the Indian corporate giant鈥檚 media relations agency...
Bangladesh鈥檚 power crisis further worsened as the power supply from the 1,600MW Adani power plant in Godda dropped to zero following the shutdown of...
Pabna Senior District and Sessions Judge Court on Wednesday sentenced a Belarusian citizen to life term imprisonment on charge of killing Kazakh national Svets Vladimir who worked at Rooppur nuclear power plant project at Ishwardi upazila of Pabna...
JUNE 24 was a day when the demand for power fell 1.88GW short of the demand for 14.89GW, up from a shortage of 278MW against the demand for 14.38GW only 24 hours ago although the installed power generation capacity is 27.51GW. The ongoing mild-to-moderate heatwave that is reported to be sweeping over 31 districts in the divisions of Dhaka...
Bangladesh, which watched a humid heatwave intensify over almost half of its districts on Tuesday, suffered up to 16 hours of power cuts in places after the power supply from the coal-fired power plant run by Adani Power in India was drastically reduced without a pre-announcement...
THE likely increase in the losses of the Bangladesh Power Development Board by almost 200 per cent in 2025 suggests a deplorable absence of measures to amend the power policy, which is burdened by, among others, an abnormal level of overcapacity and an absurd capacity charge system...
Bangladesh鈥檚 power and energy sector is set to downslide further with the budgetary measures announced this month, ignoring the need to make amends that could have...
Dhaka urged Azerbaijan to recruit manpower from Bangladesh during the first round of foreign office consultations between Bangladesh and Azerbaijan.
Bangladesh can generate 20,555 megawatts of electricity by 2050 using a very small portion of available khas land in the Dhaka division alone, according to a joint study released on Wednesday by the Coastal Livelihood and Environmental Action Network and the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association...
This Eid vacation is likely to be spent in discomfort and suffering as conditions become favourable for the ongoing humid heatwave to intensify over the period amid crises severely restricting power generation capacity...
The cabinet committee on government purchase in a meeting on Tuesday approved a proposal to import 40 megawatt hydro power from Nepal through India...
Power Grid Company of Bangladesh is implementing load shedding every hour as power demand increased amidst the ongoing heatwave that began on the...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday reiterated her country鈥檚 eagerness to import hydroelectricity from Bhutan through India when Bhutanese prime minister Dasho Tshering Tobgay paid a courtesy call on her in New Delhi...
State-owned power and energy companies continue to make profits or reduce their losses by frequently increasing their prices.
People are in for a rough ride ahead as the government decreased the overall allocation in the power and energy sector, compared with the last fiscal year, in the...
Pop-culture powerhouse Japan wants to expand its overseas market for video games, manga and anime fourfold to $130 billion in about a decade, the government has said...
A CONSTRUCTION company found involved in major corruption is contracted for construction work at the University of Rajshahi and this only demonstrates that corruption prevention mechanisms are flawed and ineffective...
Mazid Sons Construction Ltd, the contractor widely known for massive corruption in the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant housing project, has been accused of stealing...