ENVIRONMENTAL risks associated with coal power generation in Bangladesh are extensive and multifaceted, posing significant challenges to both the environment and public health. A poor management of storage in coal yards can often...
The coal yards at the Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited are already overflowing while fresh supplies are coming in every day as the Chinese contractor lifting the coal has refused to comply with requests to suspend operations.
The Rape Law Reform Coalition, a combine of 17 legal and rights organisations, on Wednesday suggested that amendments to the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act-2000 should introduce a broader legal definition of rape to include all individuals to curb incidents of rape and violence against women...
The Bangladesh Power Development Board did not pay last two months鈥� bill to the Barapukuria coal mine company for the coal bought to run the Barapukuria coal power plant, citing excessively high price.
The interim government is weighing the option of open-pit coal mining, reviving a controversy settled almost two decades ago with the sacrifice of three lives in a rare protest in Phulbari of Dinajpur.聽
Bangladesh has substantially increased coal-fired power generation over the last several days as temperature starts rising with the arrival of warmest time of the year鈥攖hree-month-long pre-monsoon season.
Coal stacks three times the usual height, rising up to 15 meters, smouldered at the Barapukuria coal mine as the 525MW coal-fired Barapukuria power plant shut down its last two units since聽 February 15 due to technical glitches triggered by years of lack of maintenance...
Bangladesh鈥檚 own coal, extracted from its lone coal mine in Dinajpur, is costlier than the imported one, up to 77 per cent in some cases, due to arbitrary energy pricing by the past Awami League regime, which was...
Coal extraction at Barapukuria Coal Mine has resumed from the newly developed phase 1305 in Dinajpur, 10 days prior to the scheduled time...
A coal mine collapsed in northern Afghanistan trapping 32 miners, a provincial official told AFP on Sunday, adding rescuers had been working for hours to reach the men....
Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal Fired Power Plant will go for 1200MW electricity generation from Friday, as coal is imported for power generation.
Former prime minister and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia was acquitted in two cases related to the Barapukuria coalmine and the Zia Charitable Trust on Wednesday...
The government鈥檚 latest assessment of environmental and other compliances of the Rampal power plant has revealed rampant violations, exposing lives and nature to the hazards predicted by...
Twenty coal miners were shot dead in an overnight attack on their lodgings by a group of heavily armed men in Pakistan鈥檚 southwestern Balochistan province, police said Friday.
Coal-fired power plants enjoy free rein to unfairly influence the cost of its fuel on the one hand, while on the other, they burn coal having quality far less than the one the government has paid...
A blast caused by a gas leak at an Iranian coal mine has killed at least 51 people, state media said on Sunday, in one of the country鈥檚 deadliest work accidents in years...
Several rockets were launched on Thursday and Friday against bases hosting US-led coalition troops in Iraq and Syria, security officials and a war monitor said.
HE myth that you can continue ruling the country by dividing people on religious ground, intimidating and jailing the opposition leaders, capturing all the public institution and centralising power, forcing the media to be a 鈥楪odi鈥� instead of an independent one has been busted in the 2024 general elections...
Rockets were fired late Sunday from northern Iraq at a military base in Syria housing a US-led coalition, according to Iraqi security forces...