The Kaiser and Wendy Zaman Fellowship, aimed at empowering adolescent girls who dropped out of secondary school, was launched on Tuesday under Brac鈥檚 Medhabikash programme, according to a press release on Tuesday...
FOUR months after coming to power, the National People鈥檚 Power government is facing growing criticism from those in the opposition and also scepticism regarding its ability to make policies necessary to revive the country and its economy. The catchy stories in the media are invariably in relation to some mishap or shortcoming in the past of government...
BANGLADESH stands at a crossroads and the time has come to confront an uncomfortable truth: who has failed the nation? Not physicians, engineers, academics, businessmen, bureaucrats, labourers, lawyers, or farmers. It is politicians. Why? Because, their focus has been on the consolidation of power, not aspirations of the people. Instead of working to...
AN ABSENCE of effective initiatives on part of the interim government, which assumed office more than five months ago, to rein in profiteers that the previous Awami League government had placed in the power and energy sector during its 15 years of authoritarian regime has rightly come to be criticised. Whilst the power plants set up by profiteers...
Over five months of the interim government have passed, there are still no effective initiatives to rein in power and energy sector profiteers, undermining the government鈥檚 ongoing effort to bring in economic and other reforms.
Patuakhali 1320 MW Thermal Power Plant started its trial production early Sunday...
Power Grid Bangladesh PLC, the state-owned power transmission company, announced that it will not pay any dividend to shareholders for the financial year 2023-24...
Russian ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander Khozin on Sunday expressed optimism over settling the debt repayment issues for the Russia-funded Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, stressing that...
The Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services has led a remarkable transformation in the country鈥檚 ICT sector evolving from just 18 members in 1998 to over 2,650 thriving national business organisations today, said its administrator Muhammad Mehedi Hasan on Saturday...
The interim government has come up with a plan to reduce power sector expenses by Tk聽10,000 crore while energy experts term the plan impractical, saying that a right intervention could save Tk 30,000 crore overnight.
Nepal鈥檚 Supreme Court has scrapped controversial laws allowing hydropower and hotel projects in protected nature reserves, a lawyer said Thursday, calling it a win for the Himalayan republic鈥檚 conservationists.
Powerful winds forecast for Wednesday threatened to whip up massive fires still burning around Los Angeles, possibly worsening an inferno that has killed at least 25 people...
INDIA is investing $1 billion to accelerate the construction of 12 hydropower projects in Arunachal Pradesh, aiming to harness the state鈥檚 estimated hydropower potential of more than 57,000MW. The strategy includes developing at least 135 hydroelectric projects along the River Brahmaputra. However, building dams upstream may worsen water shortage...
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology has hosted a seminar titled Captive Power Generation for Industries in Bangladesh 鈥� Overview and Recommendations at the council building on BUET campus in Dhaka recently...
A Russian worker was found dead in a washroom of the residential Green City of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project in Pabna, police said on Friday.
About four and a half months before a student-led mass uprising overthrew prime minister Sheikh Hasina, the energy ministry in an order sealed the deal on making excessive profits by the United Power, a private power generation company.
Some of the power projects approved without tender by the Awami League regime ousted in August 2024 continue to receive excessive capacity charge, up to 73 per cent more than what they should get, according to a...
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...
WATER disputes between nations frequently emerge from managing shared hydrological resources, mainly when an upstream riparian state exerts control over the source and implements large-scale infrastructural initiatives that may disrupt downstream flow dynamics. India鈥檚 extensive hydropower projects on the River Brahmaputra and...
AS 2025 dawns, Bangladesh is shaping up its commitment to cut emissions under the Paris Agreement. While the South Asian country is trying to bring its economy and governance back on track, the moment is ripe to drive a major reorientation in the country鈥檚 energy and power sector. Reforms are critical in this particular sector as its future...
The power and energy sector is set to give the interim government a rough ride in 2025 with its financial burden growing even bigger, mainly due to further increase in power overcapacity and capacity charge.聽
A LOW intake of animal protein by the large majority of people because of serious erosion in their purchasing power consequent on persistent high inflation is worrying. High inflation, which has remained more than 10 per cent for months, has pushed many people below the poverty threshold while the number of extreme poor has increased. Inflation...
Major General (retd) Monirul Islam Akhand has been appointed as managing director of Summit Power Limited...
The country鈥檚 power supply outlook for the next summer remains bleak with energy experts suggesting that optimum use of coal power capacity should be the core of the power generation plan to tackle the situation.
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The 14th annual general meeting of Baraka Patenga Power Limited, the second power plant of Baraka Group, was held online in combination with physical presence at Hotel Royal Mark in Sylhet recently.
BANGLADESH grapples with the dual challenges of climate change and high cost of fossil fuel against the dwindling foreign currency reserves. Renewable energy sources can in such a situation...
France on Saturday connected its most powerful nuclear power reactor to the national electricity grid in what leaders hailed as a landmark moment despite years of delays and technical setbacks.
Summit Corporation Limited is now operating 15 power plants out of 18, said a press release on Thursday...