BANGLADESH is home to two species of Pangas fish: pangasius pangasius, which inhabits open water bodies such as rivers, floodplains and beels and Pangasianodon hypophthalmus, a species predominantly cultured in closed water systems such as ponds and ghers. Over the years, Pangas 鈥� particularly Pangasianodon hypophthalmus 鈥� has emerged as the most...
Gas supply will remain suspended for 10 hours in different areas in the northern part of the capital on Thursday...
Six members of a family, including three women, were burnt in a gas stove blast at a flat in Koralia area of Chandpur district town early Sunday...
The government on Wednesday said that the compressed natural gas refueling stations in the capital would remain close from 2:30pm to 7:00pm during the Ramadan...
The advisory committee of the government purchase in a meeting on Wednesday approved two proposals for importing two cargos of liquefied natural gas...
Eight people, including four children, sustained severe burn injuries in a fire caused by a gas pipeline leak at a tin-shed house in Siddhirganj upazila of Narayanganj early Monday.
Frequent booing and screams of the word 鈥榮hame鈥� filled the air inside the indoor venue in Dhaka where the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission on Wednesday held its public hearing on the gas price hike proposal of up to 152 per cent...
The country鈥檚 business leaders strongly criticised the government鈥檚 proposal to raise gas prices by 150 per cent for new industries and industrial expansion, calling it a discriminatory move that could deter future investors and make Bangladesh less attractive for business...
Bangladesh Textile Mills Association president Showkat Aziz Russell on Tuesday said that textile sector in Bangladesh might experience a surge in factory closures as a result of further hike in gas prices...
Gas supply will remain suspended for nine hours in different areas of Dhaka city on Tuesday...
Shiuly Akter, 32, one of the 11 victims who sustained burn injuries in a gas cylinder blast in Savar died while undergoing treatment at a Dhaka hospital on early Sunday...
At least 11 people, all members of the same family, including four children, sustained burn injuries in a gas cylinder explosion while making rice cakes at their house at Ashulia on Friday night.
THE misuse of three special energy funds 鈥� set up with money set aside from gas and electricity sales every month to reduce power and energy sector expenses by investing in least cost power production, natural gas exploration and production and energy efficiency 鈥� tells how the Awami League government, toppled in a mass uprising in August 2024, breached laws...
Police charged batons, and fired sound grenades and teargas shells and sprayed water through canons on protesting recommended primary school teachers, whose appointments were cancelled through a High Court order on February 6, to disperse them from a Dhaka city road Monday afternoon...
The newly elected committee of Bangladesh Gastroenterology Society held the inaugural meeting at the La Meridian in Dhaka on Saturday...
Three members of a family sustained burn injuries in a gas cylinder explosion in Ashulia, outskirts of Dhaka Thursday afternoon...
Industry insiders have said that due to years of interruption in gas supply, export-oriented industries and other manufacturing units were facing an acute crisis...
The country鈥檚 ceramic manufacturers urged the government not to increase the price of gas and demanded that necessary steps be taken to ensure uninterrupted gas supply to the ceramic industry...
US president Donald Trump鈥檚 business partner, Gentry Beach, has expressed interest in investing in mineral and gas exploration in Bangladesh...
British energy giant Shell on Thursday announced a 17-per cent drop in annual net profit owing to weaker oil and gas prices as well as asset write-offs...
Apparel and textile sector trade bodies on Monday wrote to the interim government demanding suspending the plan to increase the price of gas for the industrial sector and captive power plants...
Home affairs adviser retired lieutenant general Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Monday said that they had allowed the Border Guard Bangladesh to procure non-lethal weapons like sound grenades and tear gas shells to use in the border areas.
The Bangladesh Agro Processors Association has called on the government to withdraw the increased VAT and taxes on processed food products and cancel the proposed gas price hike within seven days...
The price of liquefied petroleum gas has been slightly raised following a change in the structure of the value-added tax by the National Board of Revenue, according to the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission...
The piped gas supply will decrease across the country, state-owned oil company Petrobangla said in a notice issued on Thursday, warning about a low pressure in the piped gas supply for 72 hours starting today noon.
PETROBANGLA鈥橲 proposal seeking an increase in gas prices supplied to industries and captive power plants by 152 per cent and 140 per cent respectively, which the government says is unpleasant and unavoidable, is worrying in that industrialists say that such a move would increase production cost that will eventually fall on consumers. Whilst the...
The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission is evaluating a Petrobangla鈥檚 proposal to increase by up to 152 per cent the price of gas supplied to industries and captive power plants...
The separatist Moldovan region of Transnistria ordered a second day of rolling blackouts on Saturday, as a shutdown in Russian gas supplies starved the pro-Moscow self-proclaimed state of energy...
THE presence of plastics, from the Himalayas鈥� peak to Challenger Deep 鈥� the deepest known point of the seabed of Earth 鈥� highlights plastic pollution as one of the most severe environmental crises of our time. While challenges like greenhouse gas emissions remain uncontrollable, the escalating threat of plastic pollution demands immediate attention...
