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...
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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...
Bangladesh eyes manpower export to Uzbekistan
Bangladesh and Uzbekistan have agreed to deepen cooperation in multiple areas, with a particular focus on creating opportunities for sending semi-skilled and skilled manpower from Bangladesh to Uzbekistan...
Fire damages transformer at Ghorashal Thermal Power Plant
A fire broke out at the Ghorashal Thermal Power Plant in Polash upazila of Narsingdi on early Thursday, damaging a transformer and disrupting power supply for several hours...
Grid station fire cuts power in Satkhira for over 3 hours
A fire that broke out on Saturday at the power grid station at Binapota of Sadar in Satkhira district left the entire district out of power supply for three and a half hours.
Japan鈥檚 top energy giant in talks over Alaska LNG pipeline
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...
20,000 still without power in Berlin after suspicious fire
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...
Govt seeks to build skilled manpower in tourism sector
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...
Govt okays policy to boost pvt investment, lower power costs
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 drone barrage cuts power for thousands in Ukraine
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 hosts youth empowerment seminar at IUB
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...
A real chance for change in Sri Lanka
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...
Ex-chief engineer of PDB QM Khaled dies
Former chief engineer of Bangladesh Power Development Board Quazi Md Khaled died at a hospital in in Dhaka on Monday.
PATUAKHALI POWER PLANT:聽Govt to tender for coal on 5th occasion
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.
Orsted shares plunge after US halts nearly finished wind farm project
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...
Govt should shore up issues to fight against growing poverty
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...
Agreement, victims forgotten
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...
